Managing the Size of Sharepoint Picture Libraries
Our corporate Sharepoint site is a big hit. We’ve set it up so that each department has its own sub-web that they maintain.This is a great win for the company because it means that department intranets become self-managing. The Information Technology team can then focus on other things and don’t become a “bottle-neck” in the delivery of intranet services.The down-side of this is that the size of the sites can get out of hand. I was doing a review of usage of the sites and found some very large Picture Libraries. Further investigation showed that users had uploaded digital photographs onto the site. That’s great, it’s what we want them to do. But unfortunately it means that the site has become large and slow to load.Reducing the size of each individual image would be time-consuming. But I’ve got some ideas for a tool to process these images in bulk and reduce the size.