There is a great article on how to Enable and configure unique Document IDs on Microsoft.com.
In short you need to:
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:
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
