This morning I tried to upload a video file to our SharePoint 2010 install in preparation for a presentation tonight and then realised that the default 50mb file size limit was still set so while I was changing the settings to allow larger files I thought I would do a quick post on how/where the setting is and what to change.
First of all login to Central Admin and navigate to
Central Administration -> Application Management -> Manage Web Applications
Once there highlight the web application that you want to change and then click on general settings
Once in general settings scroll to the bottom of the list and you will see the maximum upload size the default setting is 50mb this can be can set to a maximum size of 2047mb. If you try to go beyond this it does flag up and tell you that you have exceeded the Maximum size.
Dave
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Daemion
April 5, 2011 at 11:27 pm (UTC 0)
This post was very helpful, I searched for a long time for this solution.
Many Thanks!
DN
Richell
April 18, 2011 at 9:41 pm (UTC 0)
Thank you for sharing this information. When we make changes to the sites, do the changes affect the site globally?
Dave Coleman
April 18, 2011 at 10:09 pm (UTC 0)
Hi
Yes it does affect your site globally.
Paul Beck
May 5, 2011 at 10:55 am (UTC 0)
Hi Dave,
I was looking at increasing the 2GB upload limit a while back and the same question has popped up from another client so trying to use RBS. As Dave post says 2047MB is the limit you can use for uplaoding files. RBS does not get around this either. If you uplaod the 2GB file and watch you w3wp.exe worker process it will consume this extra memory so it’s not a good idea to upload a lot of this big files as it will stop other request to the server (well IIS web site at least).
IIS worker process w3wp.exe has a limit so I believe 4GB is IIS7 therefore as the upload would need all the memeory to perform an upload. 2GB is a safety limit enforced by SharePoint (2047GB).
Blobs uploaded are of type long, a long has 2GB capacity therefore change to RBS, EBS will make no difference.
hope this helps anyone looking to increase to more than 2GB – paul
Thomas Trung Vo
May 30, 2011 at 10:38 am (UTC 0)
Very simple to change maximum upload file size with SharePoint 2010 / Rất đơn giản để thay đổi kích cỡ tối đa của file tải lên với SharePoint 2010 http://sharepointtaskmaster.blogspot.com/2011/05/very-simple-to-change-maximum-upload.html
Bill Bollinger
August 16, 2011 at 10:07 pm (UTC 0)
I am working on a test site for Microsoft 365. I need to increase the file upload limit. The books say that you have 250 meg file upload limit, but will only let you upload 50 meg at a time. Any suggestions where that setting might be under the site administrator properties??
Dave Coleman
August 16, 2011 at 10:15 pm (UTC 0)
Now that is a great question! The OOTB upload size is 50mb so i will look into how you increase the size limit and if you can.
Dave
Geoff Caras
September 7, 2011 at 12:22 am (UTC 0)
Just hit this on Microsoft 365, the clients spins forever then gets an error. This is a good case for the client side to query the limit and product an error prior to uploading 50M then failing!!!
This is very counter intuitive and needs a supported fix IMHO.
Geoff
Randy Dougherty
September 26, 2011 at 10:31 pm (UTC 0)
I did as the article has instructed. I also changed the timeouts located in the web.config files, and the advanced setting in IIS to allow for 180 seconds. When I try to upload I still receive an error. I have 14 gig left on the server and a very fast connection.
CraigK
November 21, 2011 at 11:25 pm (UTC 0)
I found that this only part of the equation – there is also a setting in the web.config of each web server on the farm that has to be set as well. I found that the following code:
(was 51200, increased to 512000)
had to be increased before I could successfull upload larger files.
Any thoughts?
RobertoOrtega
December 28, 2011 at 10:00 pm (UTC 0)
CraigK, please see this article
http://consultingblogs.emc.com/robertoortega/archive/2011/11/19/changing-the-maximum-file-size-for-upload.aspx
I talk about the maxRequestLength.
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