Document ID feature and Microsoft Teams based sites

Hello Everyone,

We managed to activate the document id feature on Microsoft Teams based templates sites:



Looking For Buried Office 365 Features
One of the joys of Office 365 life is finding features buried in an application that you never knew existed. It’s possible that you might never end up using the feature, but there’s a certain deliciousness in discovering something new and probing how it works. Which is what happened when I stumbled across automatic SharePoint document IDs, a way of assigning a system-generated identifier to documents. The document ID service goes back to SharePoint 2010, when Microsoft introduced the feature as part of its expansion of SharePoint’s record management capabilities.

I’ve worked with legal and government agencies over the years and understand the deep and abiding love that exists in some quarters for document ids, which they can use as file or case numbers. The thought of referring to a document as PRJ0-1974991961-1874 instead of MyDoc.docx might not appeal to you, but it does make sense when you want to be able to assign a unique identifier to a document in a mass of many hundreds or thousands of similar documents.

Enabling Document IDs for a SharePoint site
Most SharePoint Online site collections belong to Office 365 Groups or Teams (aka, modern team-enabled sites). I selected a couple of groups to play with document IDs. The directions to enable the Document ID service in Microsoft’s online documentation were incorrect (they might be adjusted now). To enable the Document ID service, a site administrator (group or team owner) or tenant administrator performs the following steps:

In a document library for a group or team, click the cogwheel icon and select Site information.
Select View all site settings at the bottom of the panel to go to the Site Settings page.
Select Site collection features under Site Collection Administration (remember, the sites used by Office 365 Groups and Teams are the only site in a site collection).
Scroll down to Document ID Service. Click Activate to enable the service for the site. A button labeled Active appears after SharePoint activates the service (Figure 1).
Go back to the Site Settings page and select Document ID settings under Site Collection Administration. You can now assign a prefix for the document IDs. The prefix is an alphanumeric value (no special characters) between 4 and 12 characters (Figure 2).
If you want SharePoint to generate document IDs for all libraries in the site, check the box Reset all document IDs in this Site Collection to begin with these characters.
Click OK. After a short delay to allow SharePoint to update settings and launch the background job to assign IDs (if chosen) to existing documents. There’s no way of knowing exactly how long SharePoint will take to assign IDs to existing documents, but it should happen within a day. While the background job progresses, any new document created, copied, or uploaded to any document library in the site receives a unique document ID.

Source: https://petri.com/using-document-ids-sharepoint-online