This blog will show you how to programmatically deploy SharePoint Premium Autofill columns in SharePoint document libraries. I will also show how to programmatically process existing documents with Autofill rules. This developer focused blog will provide the necessary PowerShell commands to create/manipulate the JSON required for the list properties where Autofill config settings are stored. Previous Blog: Game Changer: Autofill columns Now Available in SharePoint Premium – Leon Armston’s Blog I’m thrilled about Autofill columns and consider it SharePoint’s best work to date! While explorin ..read more

A very widely anticipated new SharePoint Premium feature has just been added called Autofill columns. Powered by GPT-4 Turbo (Large Language Model) and using generative AI. Autofill columns allow you to ask a question (prompt) about a document in natural language and the response is then saved to a column attached to the file. The prompt is then applied in the library to all new documents and any existing documents you wish to run the prompt on. Examples of a prompts: (see below for examples of these prompts being used with documents & analysis) Generate a summary of this document in 10 ..read more

A new feature has been added to SharePoint Premium to allow users to translate the transcript of a video in Microsoft Stream into 133 different languages. It is similar to SharePoint Premium Document Translation which I blogged about recently. A generated video transcript can be translated into many different languages and these translations can be viewed either as the transcript in full or overlaid on the video as captions. This enables people who speak other languages to follow along with what the video is saying and click to be taken to specific parts of the video. Under the covers I’m ass ..read more

SharePoint Premium Document Translation is an awesome new feature to allow staff to translate documents from SharePoint document libraries. This is done either on-demand by pressing a button to translate files or by SharePoint document library rules. I previously blogged & reviewed SharePoint Premium Document Translation (link) and I was very impressed! Today I will demonstrate how to automate Document Translation using the Microsoft Syntex API (REST) with Power Automate and PowerShell. This opens up numerous automation possibilities by enabling the translati ..read more

This blog will show you how programmatically activate SharePoint document libraries for SharePoint Premium Image Tagging with PowerShell. This developer focused blog will provide the necessary PowerShell commands to add the special column Image Tags to a library with the property IsEnhancedImageTaggingEnabled set to TRUE. By doing so the library is then activated for Image Tagging. Uploaded images are then auto scanned with AI then tagged with descriptive keywords with no training or manual tagging required. Previous Blog: Microsoft Syntex Image Tagging – Leon Armston’s Blog The special fiel ..read more

This blog will show how to add taxonomy columns to libraries and then turn them on for SharePoint Premium Taxonomy Tagging. This developer-focused blog will provide the necessary PowerShell commands to add a Taxonomy column to a library and update the field property ‘IsDocTagsEnabled’ to TRUE. By doing so, the column will be activated for Taxonomy Tagging, allowing documents to be automatically tagged when added to the library. Previous Blog: Effortless Document Tagging with Microsoft Syntex Taxonomy Tagging – Leon Armston’s Blog SharePoint Premium Taxonomy Tagging allows existing Managed Me ..read more

A new update has come to Microsoft Syntex called taxonomy tagging. This allows existing Managed Metadata (termstore) columns to be added to a library and then AI will automatically tag documents matching terms in the termstore. The tagged documents can then help users to find documents through browsing and search. No rules or training of a model are required to setup taxonomy tagging. It is all configured by the end user in a library on the column settings of a managed metadata column. Here there is one configuration option a Yes/No toggle named Automatically tag documents with terms. As the ..read more

A new feature has come to Microsoft Syntex to allow users from a SharePoint document library or OneDrive to extract and merge PDFs. Users can combine two or more PDF files into a new PDF file with the Merge PDFs action or split PDF pages into new PDF files with the Extract pages action. This is all from the UI and n longer is there the requirement for users to remove the files from SharePoint/OneDrive and use third party software applications/upload to web sites offering this service. This is great for security and usability! Syntex is now doing lots with PDFs including ability to create cust ..read more

An anticipated update has dropped into my M365 tenant today for Microsoft Syntex image tagging. Once SharePoint libraries are enabled for Syntex Image tagging and images are uploaded they are then auto scanned by AI. The images are then tagged with descriptive keywords with no training or manual tagging required. The keywords are stored in a special Image Tags managed metadata column – which means once the images are tagged you can then search, refine and identify images. This is currently only available if Syntex pay as you go is configured in your tenant & linked to an Azure subscriptio ..read more

A new prebuilt (and pre-trained) Syntex model has been available in Microsoft Syntex for processing Contracts. The prebuilt contracts model recognises contracts in a variety of different formats and extracts key contract fields such as contract date, client name, execution date etc..! What’s special about the Syntex prebuilt models is that they have already pre-configured to recognise documents and structured information within the documents. In the case of the Contracts model the Syntex team have pre-trained the model with likely 1000s of differently formatted contracts and trained the model ..read more