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News from SharePoint Conference North America 2018 – SharePoint roadmap revealed

21/05/2018

Today at the SharePoint Conference North America, Microsoft revealed its Sharepoint roadmap for 2018.

One of the biggest reveals was SharePoint spaces – a feature which allows companies to create mixed reality spaces for viewing data and documents within SharePoint. All the details about this and the roadmap are available in Jeff Teper’s (Microsoft Corporate VP Office, OneDrive & SharePoint) blog on the Microsoft website here: SharePoint innovations transform content collaboration with mixed reality and AI.

There was also an update on SharePoint Server 2019, with the public preview announced for this June. Key features will include:

Modern Sites, Pages, Lists, and Libraries
Team News
SharePoint Home
Communication Sites
OneDrive Sync Client
Improved hybrid support and scenarios
New developer options
Improved support for business process with PowerApps and Flow.

For more specifically on SharePoint 2019 see Bill Baer’s (Microsoft Senior Technical Product Manager) blog on the Microsoft website here: Welcome to SharePoint Server 2019, a modern platform for choice and flexibility.

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SharePoint Conference North America 2018

20/05/2018

SharePoint Conference North America is being held 21-23 May at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, USA.

With a keynote lined-up from Jeff Teper (Microsoft Corporate VP Office, OneDrive & SharePoint) and featuring over 140 sessions of content, this is where Microsoft will showcase its vision for the SharePoint roadmap, as well as the latest innovations. If there is a big announcement about SharePoint, this is where we will hear about it!

Follow @SPConf on Twitter for all the latest Conference reveals.

Machine Learning made for .NET – developer preview of ML.NET

14/05/2018

ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework built for .NET developers. Microsoft says it is an extensible framework, with support for Light GBM, Accord.NET, CNTK, and TensorFlow. The public release is still in development but there is an early developer preview available on Github which you can contribute to and get here.

For more details from the team behind the framework head over to the Microsoft .NET Blog: Introducing ML.NET: Cross-platform, Proven and Open Source Machine Learning Framework.

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Sharpen up your AI skillset with free Microsoft training

13/05/2018

Microsoft has launched AI School, a free online programme dedicated to Artificial Intelligence. Each course is broken down into modules and range from beginner through to advanced.

AI School provides a great way to learn how to build intelligence into your solutions with the Microsoft AI platform, including pre-trained AI services like Cognitive Services and Bot Framework, as well as deep learning tools like Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio Code Tools for AI, and Cognitive Toolkit.

Get started here.

All the latest on the .NET Core 2.1 and .NET 3.0

11/05/2018

It is an exciting time in the world of .NET. Not only is the .NET Core 2.1 Release Candidate out, but we recently had the announcement from Microsoft that .NET Core 3.0 will land in 2019. So who better to summarise all of the latest news than Scott Hanselman?! Fresh from his his return from Microsoft Build 2018, Hanselman’s latest blog post covers all of the .NET Core announcements. You can read it on his website here: Announcing .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 Go Live AND .NET Core 3.0 Futures.