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SharePoint 2010 document IDs with file shares

I'm aware that that SharePoint 2010 includes a feature for assigning document IDs to files within SharePoint site collections:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ecm/archive/2011/10/12/document-id-in-sharepoint-server-2010.aspx

What I'm wondering is if SharePoint also applies document IDs to file share content sources that have been added as part of the SharePoint search crawl. In SharePoint 2007 we have users that create links pointing to files on a network file share. Occasionally, a file gets renamed or moved and ultimately breaks the SharePoint link. Do SharePoint 2010 document IDs apply in this scenario and provide persistent links in SharePoint for file shares?

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Excellent. Thank you both for answering my question and confirming my suspicions. Now I can plan our SharePoint 2010 migration project accordingly.

I always felt that accessing documents on file shares was much faster/desirable than going through an HTTP server to access documents (our SharePoint 2007 setup is slow I guess). I was hoping document IDs would provide a solution for broken links between SharePoint and file shares, but Jamie's article on the topic was helpful for getting beyond the purely "hierarchical navigation" organization strategy.

And thanks for the link checker program too!