MOSS: Goodbye 2000 limit, Hello 3000?

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The rule of thumb for SharePoint lists has always been “no more than 2000 items in a given container”.

Now in the recently released White Paper “SharePoint Performance Optimization - How Microsoft IT Increases Availability and Decreases Rendering Time of SharePoint Sites”, the following is stated in the Best Practices section:

“Manage large lists for performance  
Having large lists by itself is not necessarily a performance issue. When SharePoint Server renders the many items in those lists, that can cause spikes in render times and database blocking. One way to mitigate large lists is to use subfolders and create a hierarchical structure where each folder or subfolder has no more than 3,000 items.”

The 2000 items was always a soft limit, of course, but interesting to see MS now saying 3000…

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