In a previous post I created a chart to show what characters are illegal to use when creating your Site name or Subsite names. Now we will discuss MOSS 2007 character limitations.
In MOSS 2007 your individual files names have a character limitation of 128 characters or bits in length. Long file names can be good to use in that they can be rather descriptive but when used in MOSS the page redirects make those names rather useless. Short yet descriptive file names are a good habit to get into when developing your content but try and keep them simple. For example if you have a file name called “Technical meetings and agendas for the XYZ project” the file name can be shortened to “XYZ Project Info”.
Note: The blank lines are also counted as Null characters so you could use “CamelCase” where the words do not include spaces and the individual words are capitalized as in “XyzProjectInfo”
There is however a 260 character limitation for the UNC path which includes the MOSS server name (MossServerName\SiteName\FolderName\FileName). It is also a good idea to ensure that you do not go too deep into the site hierarchy and stay under 2 or 3 sites deep. You can of course go deeper provided you have short (7-10) character site names
MOSS 2007 Illegal Site Name Characters
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/dhite/archive/2007/06/17/moss-2007-illegal-site-name-characters.aspx
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