SharePoint Online and the Document ID Service

Question

HI -

I understand that in SharePoint online your can enable teh "Document ID" servcie and that existing documents will assigned a Document ID by a background service. How would this impact or is it recommended as a best practice, to turn on the Service during off-hours as to not impact users? Or, as it is running in the background, would there be miinimal impact? I have over 100,000 existing documents and want to ensure that the site is still resable while its runnig. Also, any negatives to turning this service on? Will a Document ID still be assigned if Users use "Sync" and drag and drop files?

thanks in advance for your help with this.

Lisa

Answer 1

@Lisa Hein
Since you have lots of files, in order to not affect other users use SharePoint, I suggest you open Document ID Service during off-hours. Turning on Document ID Service will not have negative impacts. Document ID still be assigned when users use "Sync" and drag and drop files.

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Answer 2

You can enable it at any time. DocIDs are added as the item is (re)crawled. Performance isn't your concern, but rather Microsoft's.