Angus Logan

MCMS/SPS/.NET/SQL/Microsoft Australia

How far can I push SharePoint? (Auto-Bloat)

I just wrote a pretty neat tool (which I will make public later on). It allows you to specify how many sites you want created, how they should be nested, what to call them and which templates to base them on.

I'm running it tonight to create 20,000 sites like:
-1 ROOT
---10 CHILDREN
--------20 CHILDREN
------------100 CHILDREN

So I'll see how the system is performing tomorrow morning.

If you refer to Mark Harrison's SharePoint Scaling Limits post you will see I can have 250,000 web sites per site collection - wonder if I can get to that level.

Tomorrow I'll have a play with creating different content DB's and putting them on SQL clusters in different configurations and possibly load balance the front ends etc. - Its awesome working in a lab environment.

ps. Has anyone found a way around the 10Mb limit for templates? I want to crank up the template and save with content so I end up with sites created from templates with content in them already.

PPS. What would a SharePoint Auto-Bloater tool be without its recursive delete companion tool to clean up the mess afterwards?

the tools I mentioned here I will try to make public shortly