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Object Maximum value Type of object limit Details
List View 5,000 items Lists and libraries limit The default maximum number 
of items that a query can process 
at one time. Can be changed in 
Resource Throttling per web 
application.
List View for 
Auditors and 
Administrators
2,0000 items Lists and libraries limit The default maximum of items that 
an object model database can query 
at one time. Works with the Allow 
Object Model Override setting. Also 
a Resource Throttling setting.
Subsites 2,000 per site view Site limit Enumerating the number of sub-
sites for a site collection starts to 
degrade performance above 2,000; 
it also degrades the performance of 
the All Site Content page and Tree 
View.
Co-Authoring 10 concurrent edi-
tors per document
Lists and libraries limit The recommended limit is 10, but 
the boundary is 99. More than 
10 coeditors on a document can 
cause conflicts and degradation in 
performance. 
Security Scope 1,000 per list Lists and libraries limit This is the maximum number of 
unique security settings per list or 
library. A security scope can con-
tain the ACL (access control list) for 
an object and the security princi-
pals related to that ACL as well.
Single Line  
of Text
276 per list Column limit There should be no more than 276 
single-line-of-text-columns per list.
Multiple Lines 
of Text
192 per list Column limit
Choice 276 per list Column limit
Number 72 per list Column limit
Currency 72 per list Column limit
Table 1.2:  Software thresholds for SharePoint Foundation 2010   (continued)
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