14 January, 2016

Increase list item threhsold view - SharePoint Online

Hello Guys, Good to have myself back again to this SharePoint world. It’s been a quite busy hectic time from last few months but here is my article on so called problem of threshold limits with respect to SharePoint lists.

SharePoint Online delivers the powerful features of SharePoint without the associated overhead of managing the infrastructure on your own.

Everybody is aware that SharePoint lists as has certain limit to accumulate number of items so the question is - 

Can i increase list item threshold view in SharePoint online, which by default is 5000? In other words, this error message-

"The number of items in this list exceeds the list view threshold, which is 5000 items" error when you view a SharePoint Online list in Office 365 Enterprise”

Answer would be – No but there is some workaround by which we can play with this limit. 

How? Here is the way-
To work around this issue, split the items into multiple lists so that no list exceeds 5,000 items. Because you'll be unable to view the list items beyond the limit of 5,000 items, you must configure metadata-based navigation so that you can access all the list's contents.

To enable metadata-based navigation, follow the "Enable Metadata Navigation and Filtering" and "Configure Metadata Navigation" sections of the following Microsoft website: 


After metadata navigation is enabled, the list's contents will become available. We recommended that you then reduce the list's contents to less than 5,000 items.

That’s it guys- above mentioned steps are enough to overcome the error message but after following the above mentioned steps, if you still have any doubts then please feel free to reach out. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues. Happy SharePoint!

06 July, 2015

May 2015 CU for SharePoint 2010

Be aware that the May Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP2 hotfix. It is required to have SP2 installed before installing the May CU.

It is required to have SP2 installed for the base product and all installed language packs to install May 2015 CU for SharePoint 2010.

This CU includes all SharePoint 2010 fixes released since SP2. The CU does not include SP2.

The KB articles for May CU are available at the following locations:
  • KB 3017815 - SharePoint Foundation 2010 - This is also a security fix!
  • KB 3015569 - SharePoint Server 2010
  • KB 2999496 - Project Server 2010
The Full Server Packages for May 2015 CU are available through the following links:
After installing the fixes you need to run the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard on each machine in the farm.

June 2015 CU for SharePoint 2013 is available

This CU includes all SharePoint 2013 fixes (including all security fixes) released since SP1. The CU does not include SP1.You need to install SP1 before installing this CU.
The KB articles for June CU are available at the following locations:
  • KB 3054864 - SharePoint Foundation 2013 June 2015 CU
  • KB 3054866 - SharePoint Server 2013 June 2015 CU
  • KB 3054865 - SharePoint Server 2013 with Project Server June 2015 CU
  • KB 3054863 - Office Web Apps Server 2013 June 2015 CU
The Full Server Packages for June 2015 CU are available through the following links:
After installing the fixes you need to run the SharePoint 2013 Products Configuration Wizard on each machine in the farm.
Be aware that the SharePoint Server 2013 CU contains the SharePoint Foundation CU. And the SharePoint Server 2013 with Project Server CU contains Project Server CU, SharePoint Server CU and SharePoint Foundation CU.