Know Your Limits: Capacity Planning in SharePoint 2010

Developing the site hierarchy is only one aspect of a successful implementation. Understanding the boundaries and limits of SharePoint 2010 is critical to ensuring scalability, performance, and manageability. This is especially important in the planning of Content Databases as they naturally align to the site hierarchy and impact performance and usability. A site hierarchy with poorly planned Content Databases creates a situation where costly remediation is necessary in order to scale the platform properly.

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