When you are going to work on information architecture for a SharePoint site, you must need to understand the limits and boundaries for the SharePoint version you are using and design site information architecture accordingly. In this blog post I am going to share the limits and boundaries for SharePoint online. Some of the boundaries in SharePoint online depends on the selected plan like no. of users allowed in one tenant.

Below table shows the existing limits and boundaries for SharePoint online.

No. of Site Collections500000
No. of Sub sites2000 per site collection
Items in List30 Million
Documents in a library30 Million
File size in a document library15 GB
File size in list item attachment250 MB
No. of files in single OneDrive300000 files
OneDrive Sync Client limit20000 files
File name /path limit400 characters
Major Versions50000
Minor versions511
ThumbnailsGenerated if image size less than 100 MB
PDF PreviewGenerated if PDF size is less than 100 MB
No. Of Security Groups per site collection10000
No. of users in a Security Group5000
Maximum no. of users2 Million per site collection
No. Of lookup fields in a list12
Managed Term sets1000
Managed Terms in term store200000

SharePoint online limitations and boundaries

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