Lukas Svoboda: Strategy, Architecture, Governance & Technology

I've got a customer who is having problems with a sharepoint installation where there are more than 4000 documents in a doc lib. In general this is not an issue for sharepoint but it seems to cause issues with their backup software. So I did a bit of research and found some interesting guidance on stopping performance issues with sharepoint doc libs. Resources and reading:

• Michael Ekegren Blog post on what happans when you put in 1 Million items into a sharepoint.
• Microsoft Resources - Setting up sharepoint as a collaborative filestore (good metrics on doc lib performance guidelines)
• Post on Mart's Tam Tam sharepoint Blog (Some similar quotes from the MS resource, but a few other notes)
• Microsoft General Sharepoint FAQ for background information