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Upcoming (2022 Nov/Dec) enforcement of limits for SharePoint lists & libraries in Site Collection
MicrosoftDennyR, thanks for your feedback.
Unfortunately, we are not able to provide the capability to opt out sites from the limits. The sites that exceed the limits can impact more than just these sites. In the worst case, it can impact all the sites that are hosted in the same infrastructure.
Besides, not experiencing issues yet does not guarantee won't in the future. The service is a complex system that keeps evolving. There are certain operations that will fail and can cause cascading failure in the service. As mentioned early, the impact goes beyond the sites exceeding the limits.
Roger Gu I have just read the new announcement about this limitation for February 2023:
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/home#/MessageCenter/:/messages/MC405984
I still have a doubt about the real limit.
In the documentation it is affirmed: "2,000 lists and libraries combined per site collection (including main site and any subsites).".
Which I understand, you cannot have 2000 libraries/lists counting all in the main site and all in the subsites (perhaps 2000 subsites).
But then in the message center, they say: "For instance, a site collection can have 2,000 subsites (including the main site) and each subsite (including the main site) could have 2,000 lists and libraries (including the hidden and default out of the box libraries)."
With this message, I understand, that there is a limit of 2000 lists/libraries in the main site, another "new" limit of 2000 lists in every subsite, so at the end you could have, let's imagine, 10 subsites, and you could have 2000 of the main site + 2000 lists x 10 == 12000.
Is this correct?
Thx in advance.
- Roger Gu
Miguel Angel Gonzalez Your understanding is correct. The public guidance is always the same - 2k doc libs/lists with a site collection, including the ones in subsites within the site collection. The difference is that the upcoming enforcement will only be 2k doc libs/lists per site(spweb), hence the number in your example is correct.