Special Edition Using Microsoft® SharePoint Portal Server

Special Considerations

There are some tasks that require special consideration and careful planning. Some tasks are classified as long-running operations, such as such as moving, copying, or deleting folders; deleting or renaming categories; creating content sources; and changing inherited security.

Table 6.7 provides example calculations for certain tasks that require special consideration:

Table 6.7. Performance Expectations Matrix

Function	Performance Expectation	Description
Changing role membership	~3 folders per/second	When copying a folder, all documents and sub-folders are copied at an approximate rate of two files per second. Copying 10,000 documents is estimated to take approximately 1.3 hours.
Renaming Categories	~5 documents per second ...