Office Online SharePoint 2016 Limits

In this post, we will list the Office Online SharePoint 2016 Limits compared to SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2010.

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Office Online SharePoint 2016 Limits Compared to SharePoint 2013

In SharePoint 2016 the Office Web Apps become Office Online, the following table lists the recommended guidelines for Office Online SharePoint 2016. Office client application limits also apply when an application is running as a web app. 

Limit	Maximum value	Limit type	Notes
Cache size	100 GB	Threshold	Space available to render documents, created as part of a content database. By default, the cache available to render documents is 100 GB. We do not recommend that you increase the available cache.
Renders	One per document per second per CPU core per application server (maximum eight cores)	Boundary	This is the measured average number of renders that can be performed of “typical” documents on the application server over a period of time.
OneNote concurrent merge operations	8 per document	Threshold	OneNote merges combine changes from multiple users who are co-authoring a notebook. If too many concurrent merges are already in progress, a conflict page is generated instead, which forces the user to perform the merge manually.

Office Web Apps SharePoint 2013 Limits

The following table lists the recommended guidelines for Office Web Apps SharePoint 2013. Office client application limits also apply when an application is running as a web app. 

Limit	Maximum value	Limit type	Notes
Cache size	100 GB	Threshold	Space available to render documents, created as part of a content database. By default, the cache available to render documents is 100 GB. We do not recommend that you increase the available cache.
Renders	One per document per second per CPU core per application server (maximum eight cores)	Boundary	This is the measured average number of renders that can be performed of “typical” documents on the application server over a period of time.
OneNote concurrent merge operations	8 per document	Threshold	OneNote merges combine changes from multiple users who are co-authoring a notebook. If too many concurrent merges are already in progress, a conflict page is generated instead, which forces the user to perform the merge manually.

Office Web Apps SharePoint 2010 Limits

The following table lists the recommended guidelines for Office Web Apps SharePoint 2010. Office client application limits also apply when an application is running as a web app. 

Limit	Maximum value	Limit type	Notes
Cache size	100 GB	Threshold	Space available to render documents, created as part of a content database. By default, the cache available to render documents is 100 GB. We do not recommend that you increase the available cache.
Renders	One per document per second per CPU core per application server (maximum eight cores)	Boundary	This is the measured average number of renders that can be performed of “typical” documents on the application server over a period of time.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, I have listed the Office Online SharePoint 2016 Limits compared to Office Web Apps limits in SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2010.

Applied To

• SharePoint 2016.
• SharePoint 2013.
• SharePoint 2010.

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