Building a better sorting hat with Microsoft Syntex and Autofill columns

Even Microsoft have an ambivalent relationship with metadata, sometimes embracing, sometimes disenfranchising and sometimes pretending that everything can be done with machine learning.

The world revolves around metadata, but nobody has ever said they enjoy adding it. Let's dive into how we can get SharePoint and AI to the heavy lifting and add the metadata for us humans. We'll take a look at Autofill columns, and it's bigger and clearer sister Microsoft Syntex (which is part of SharePoint Premium).

Along the way we'll look at licensing and getting setup, use cases for the technology, a few few practical demonstrations and some thoughts on where this might be going.