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SharePoint 2010 - Enable and configure unique Document IDs

There is a great article on how to Enable and configure unique Document IDs on Microsoft.com. In short you need to: Activate the Document ID site collection feature Enable and configure the use of Document IDs in a site collection But what it doesn't mention is that behind the scenes there are two time jobs that need to run to activate this feature: one to add the Document ID column and one to generate unique ids for the existing documents. But, these jobs are set to run once a day. So if you need your unique Document IDs to be activate right away, you need to go to Central Administration and run these two timer jobs for your respective web application: Document ID enable/disable job  Document ID assignment job