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SharePoint – Cannot upload documents larger than 30MB, on Windows Server 2008 or SBS 2008 Application Servers

Ok, here’s the situation (my parents went away on a week’s vacation… no wait, that’s the Fresh Prince)…

 

I have a MOSS 2007 Server. The maximum upload size was long set to larger than the default 50MB (100MB) in Central Administration. The base OS is Windows Server 2008.

 

I was working away happily on a Word Document that has been growing in size all week (full of screen shots). It had reached a point today though where I could no longer upload it. It had reached a size of 30MB. It resulted in errors like these…

 

Single File Upload via Document Library

  • Nothing happens, you get a 404 page.

 

Multiple File Upload via Document Library

  • It seems to upload the file but then after the page refreshes, the file is nowhere to be found.

 

Open with Windows Explorer

  • Using the Open with Windows Explorer” option, the following error was received (Could not find this item):

 

There were several folks referencing WSS and that the following article was the fix: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/944981/en-us. However, following that article, to the tee, I got the following result, repeatedly, after performing an IISRESET and visiting my SharePoint Site. The key problem is, IIS 7, on Windows Server 2008, sets an upload limit of 30MB (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/944981/en-us).

 

 

So that didn’t work… but then I remembered the IIS 7 Administration Pack, which proved to provide the solution to my problem (and far easier/care free to work with than modifying the web.config file, particularly when it doesn’t work). You can find more about the IIS 7 Administration Pack here. Be sure to download the right version for your platform (x86 or 64bit).

 

With the pack installed, I was able to change the Byte value of 30000000 (30MB) to what I required, 100MB (104857600 bytes). Here’s the visual process:

 

  1. Install the Administration Pack (first, get it: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/415/install-the-administration-pack)

 

 

  1. Once installed, open your SharePoint Web Application and find the (new) “Request Filtering” option that appears

 

 

  1. Then choose ‘Edit Feature Settings’ in the task pane on the right

 

 

  1. Finally, set the value you require (set this to be slightly larger than the value you want to set, in SharePoint Central Administration, so that your settings work correctly

 

 

  1. And then the new value. Wrap this up nicely with an IISRESET

 

 

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4 responses to “SharePoint – Cannot upload documents larger than 30MB, on Windows Server 2008 or SBS 2008 Application Servers”

  2. Very helpful document.  I was stuck in a cycle of web config file changes.  Plus, your “useful” lines section made me laugh as did you first line because I was singing that same song when I read your pun.  Thanks for the info and the laughs, Sean!

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