Thanks to @lizasisler for pointing me to this.
ZDNet has an article about Microsoft’s recent announcement raising the upper limit on file size from 250 MB to 2 Gig. They now also allow you to upload .exe files. At it’s face, that’s a pretty easy thing to report but I think that raising the limit suggest a couple things:
- User demand it
- Video is probably driving a lot of that and SharePoint 2013 better support for video has probably helped drive demand
- Microsoft really wants you to move to SharePoint Online vs on Premise and this is just one more reason.
But enough of my ranting, here’s a very high level and quick recap of the ZDNet article. (of course you can always find more information at the original source)
Teams on SharePoint Online can now also upload .exe (executable files) and .dll (Windows dynamic-link library), which were previously blocked file types and, according to Microsoft, due to this, a source of syncing hassles.
“For SharePoint Online, our telemetry shows that customers want to store these files in the cloud along with their other content. This change will eliminate a number of sync failures customers have seen due to unsupported file types,” Mark Kashman, a senior SharePoint product manager, wrote on the Sharepoint blog on Thursday.
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Finally, site collection limits within SharePoint Online will increase from 3,000 websites to 10,000 websites, but this feature is only available to Microsoft’s Office 365 Enterprise customers. List lookups in SharePoint are also increasing from eight to 12 relations.
Note that the article focuses more on the upload of exe’s and .dll’s. I don’t think that invalidates my points 1 and 2 above. The quotes definitely support item 3 above though. Every time you turn around they are extending SharePoint Online. At some point, it will be the most full featured option with the least infrastructure support and planning needed.
