10 Reasons Why SharePoint Performance Can Slow
Blog PostsIn recent months, we’ve seen customers who are doing major migrations of documents—for example, from file servers—to SharePoint. Far too often, one of the complaints I hear voiced in these scenarios is how slow the upload can be, particularly when uploading huge numbers of documents. I thought it would be worth starting a discussion of lessons learned related to performance of mass uploads. This is a fairly targeted business scenario—most organizations don’t do this too often—but it also brings up some key points to consider about performance in other SharePoint scenarios.
The following are among the factors that can cause performance of mass uploads to suffer:
• The recovery model for the content database (a SQL Server setting) is set to full by default.
