URL path length restrictions (SharePoint Server 2010)

URL path length restrictions (SharePoint Server 2010)

Guide on resolving url length problem from the article:

• Upgrade all the end-user browsers to Internet Explorer 8, which has a longer URL length limit.
  
  
• Use shorter names for sites, folders, and documents and control the depth of the site and folder structures to reduce the lengths of URLs.
  
  
• If possible or allowed, use ASCII names for sites, folders, and documents. This will avoid situations where the URL will be lengthened by being encoded.
  
  
• To reduce the risk that the SharePoint Server 2010 end-users will encounter problems because of URL length limitations, we recommend that you apply the following effective limits in the deployment:
  
  
  • 256 Unicode (UTF-16) Code units - the effective file path length limitation, including a domain/server name
    
    
  • 128 Unicode (UTF-16) Code units - the path component length limitation