02 June, 2014

Maximum upload size in SharePoint 2013

As the SharePoint can be use one of best repository tool in today’s market, we uploads so many files to SharePoint document library on regular basis and face some generic error message also “you have cross the upload limit which has been configured by web administrator” & so many others!

Today’s article is based on this “maximum upload” information and what’s under the hood? Where is this setting coming from?

Here is the information that you are looking for!
The maximum file upload size is a web application setting that specifies the maximum size of a file that a user can upload to the server. You configure the maximum file upload size for every web application by using Central Administration to specify the size of files that will be uploaded to asset libraries.

By default, the maximum video file upload size is 250 MB. You can increase the video file upload size to 2 GB.

How to change this in CA?
1.    Central Administration
2.    Application management
3.    Manage web applications
4.    Select the correct web application in which you wanna do the changes
5.    General settings (from the ribbon)
6.    You will see the section named as “Maximum upload size”
7.    Change the value as per the requirement and click OK.
8.    That’s it & you are done!

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

7 comments:

  1. The problem with allowing this is that over time videos bloat the content databases and unless you are on SQL Server Enterprise Edition you have no ability to use compression when storing large media files. This is a continued pain point in that we want our users to be able to upload large files but most of our libraries have versioning turned on (unlimited). This was set during rollout to aid adoption and seduce our users away from network shares and nested folder structures. Setting this is great, but it is something to think about if you allow unlimited versioning in your library(s).

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  2. In Central Administration select Web Application > General Settings and change value in Maximum Upload Size for requested value (in MB).

    -Marcin Czabała-Hęclik
    Starszy Administrator Systemów w firmie Narodowy Bank Polski

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  3. Hi
    On Web Application General Settings change the Maximum Upload Size. You need to change the Web.Config the executionTimeout and maxRequestLength values.

    João Pedro Ferreira
    Business Application Engineer III at HP CDS

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  4. You should also discuss possible necessary changes to IIS re timeouts, the implications of changing the limit and the infrastructure necessary (or recommended by MS) to support large files without impacting performance and/or stability.

    Blindly increasing it without understanding the consequences of what you're doing is not a good idea.

    Martin J. Green
    SharePoint Specialist

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  5. Go to Central Administration
    Go to Application Management
    Go to Manage web applications
    Select the web application you need to modify
    Click General Settings in the Ribbon
    In the Web Application General Settings dialog box, scroll down to Maximum upload size and make changes
    Scroll down and click the OK button

    -Harvey Dixon
    Senior Systems Administrator and Application Support at Cox Communications

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  6. 1. Update file size in CA (Application Management > Web Application General Settings > Maximum Upload Size)
    2. Increase Time-out settings in IIS 7.0 (In IIS, right-click on your site and navigate to Advanced settings > Connection Limits > Connection Time-out (seconds) and set to 180)
    3. Update SharePoint web.config (increase the execution timeout of the upload page that SharePoint uses (upload.aspx) > C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\ > open web.config with notepad and add the executionTimeout="999999" paramteter and value to the upload.aspx settings.)
    4. Update SharePoint Web Application web.config (we also need to add the "executionTimeout" setting to the web.config for our SP WebApp which is located here: Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\[YourSiteVirtualDirectoryFolder] > add the executionTimeout="999999" parameter and value to the httpRuntime setting)

    -Tibor Révész
    SharePoint Administrator at IT-Services Hungary Kft., Member of T-Systems

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  7. Go to central admin
    select web aplication - click on general settings
    change the maximum upload size, it is 250 mb by default.

    -Yogendra Singh
    Sr. SharePoint Developer & Consultant at De Lage Landen

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