While working in SharePoint 2010, you may receive the following error:
The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold enforced by the administrator. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: <nativehr>0x80004005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold enforced by the administrator.
I got this error while trying to change the site URL in Site Settings.
The resolution to this error is:
1. Navigate to Central Administration.
2. Go to Application Management > Manage Web Application and click on your web application to select it.
3. In the Ribbon, click on General Settings drop-down and choose “Resource Throttling”.
4. In the “List View Threshold”, increase the value (by a factor of 2, for example) and click OK.
5. Try to replicate the error. If the error persists, increase the value again until the error goes away.
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I’m trying to delete an Access Database in an Office 365 site and receive the same error message: “The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold.” I do not find on the Office 365 Administration pages how to change Resource Throttling. Can you help me?
Thank you, I appreciate it
Thank you so much, It resolved my issue. I had to increase 15000 before I can rename my site URL.
Great Solution, it worked like a charm for my problem.
Thanks … helped me
Thank you so much. this resolves my issue too.
If by ‘solution’ you mean masking the problem until your list grows too large again, rinse, repeat until the server melts then yeah, nice solution.
Valid point – this is just a temporary fix and is not a substitute for a governance plan to deal with the ever-growing size of content in your list.
Hi,
I’ve got the same problem today even if I grow up immeasureably the number for the list view treshold but the problem persists.
The server is not on the real active directory (AD), it’s on a development active directory (DEVAD).
The active directory (AD) users have this error when trying to connect to the site.
Furhtermore, sharepoint locals users (from DEVAD) do not have this error.
I think I have the problem cause the server is not in the real AD.
I don’t kow how to solve it…
Thx
This is seriously the worst answer ever. Stop telling SharePoint users to go around governance tools.
Then it would be nice to give a better answer then the one mentioned in this article. Just screaming that this is “the worst answer ever” doesn’t solve my problem.
Thank you very much for this work-around!