This is episode 57 recorded on July 23rd 2018 where John & Jason recap the announcements at the 2018 Business Application Summit in Seattle, Washington. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Jul 24, 2018•27 min
This is episode 56 recorded on July 12th 2018 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Research Open Data, Developer & Gateway news, Power BI Desktop vs Service, and MVP renewals. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Jul 13, 2018•28 min
This is episode 55 recorded on June 28th 2018 where John & Jason talk about a few recent bugs and service interruptions, the recent Power of the Cloud conference, PowerApps, Flow, and some recent improvements to the usability of the On Premises Data Gateway For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Jul 03, 2018•24 min
This is episode 54 recorded on June 21th 2018… where John & Jason talk about mobile app configuration of PBIRS settings, a new way of analyzing Excel in Power BI, and the upcoming Power BI Embedded deadline. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Jun 26, 2018•26 min
This is episode 53 recorded on June 13th 2018… where John & Jason talk about new initiatives in their world, discussed MyAnalytics, Azure Machine Learning, and some of the Power BI Service limits & what to do about them. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Jun 20, 2018•27 min
This is episode 52 recorded on June 7th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the new Power BI Desktop update & the role of Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Jun 12, 2018•26 min
This is episode 51 recorded on June 7th 2018… where John & Jason talk about news in the Power BI space, the Power BI Developer community update for May, and some twitter shenanigans. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Jun 09, 2018•26 min
This is episode 50 recorded live on May 21st 2018… where John & Jason talk the announcements & other things happening at the SharePoint Conference North America in Las Vegas. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Jun 01, 2018•28 min
This is episode 49 recorded on May 15th, 2018… where John & Jason talk to Liz Sundet, Office Servers & Services MVP from Minnesota, about the upcoming SPCNA Conference in Las Vegas next week and some news related to the upcoming GDPR deadline. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
May 16, 2018•26 min
This is episode 48 recorded on May 8th 2018… where John & Jason talk about Guy in a Cube's new video, and walk through the new features of the May 2018 Power BI Desktop which includes the much anticipated incremental refresh. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
May 09, 2018•36 min
This is episode 47 recorded on April 30th 2018… where John & Jason interview Olaf Hubel, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the Excel Engineering team. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show
May 01, 2018•32 min
This is episode 46 recorded on April 17th 2018… where John & Jason talk about a whole bunch of miscellaneous items including GDPR, OneNote, Moving from SSRS SharePoint Integrated Mode, and SharePoint lists in Microsoft Teams. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Apr 26, 2018•25 min
This is episode 45 recorded on April 12th 2018… where John & Jason take a deep dive on the announcements about the new Common Data Service for Analytics and the new Common Data Service for Apps. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Apr 17, 2018•32 min
This is episode 44 recorded on April 9th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the Developer Update & the Gateway Update for March and the Power BI Desktop update for April. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Apr 10, 2018•33 min
This is episode 43 recorded on March 8th 2018… where John & Jason talk to Charles Sterling who runs the MVP Program for the PowerApps, Flow, and Power BI about his experience working at Microsoft, his view of the MVP Community in the Power*s world, and non-NDA stuff about MVP Summit. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Apr 05, 2018•20 min
This is episode 42 recorded on March 23rd 2018… where John & Jason talk to Megan Assarrane, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft for Power BI Embedded, to dispel some misunderstandings about embedded licensing, discuss the retirement of the old Workspace Collections product & the awesomeness that is the new Power BI Embedded service. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Mar 27, 2018•29 min
This is episode 41 recorded on March 15th 2018… where John & Jason talk to Riccardo Muti, Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft for Power BI and SQL Server Reporting Services, about the latest Power BI Report Server release & the direction he sees the product going in the future. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Mar 19, 2018•39 min
This is episode 40 recorded on March 15th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the latest Power BI news from the week & tease next week's very special episode. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Mar 15, 2018•18 min
This is episode 39 recorded on March 8th 2018… from Microsoft Campus in Redmond at the Global MVP Summit where John & Jason talk about the latest Power BI Desktop Update & explain the new ability to share Power BI content with anyone by email address using Azure B2C. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Mar 13, 2018•22 min
This is episode 38 recorded on February 27th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the Power BI App story & the new functionality that the Power BI team released last week for updating Apps. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Mar 01, 2018•30 min
This is episode 37 recorded on February 20th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the January Feature Update for the Power BI Service and Mobile that released in February. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Feb 22, 2018•27 min
This is episode 36 recorded on February 12th 2018… where Jason geeks out with guest host Dave Feldman about the latest Power BI Desktop Update, restoring SQL Azure Databases, and some other randomness. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Feb 14, 2018•39 min
This is episode 35 recorded on January 23rd 2018… where John & Jason discuss SQL Server Reporting Services in the overall Microsoft BI stack & the upgrade path to the latest iteration, including the SharePoint implications. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Feb 06, 2018•21 min
This is episode 34 recorded on January 23rd 2018… where John interviews Chris McNulty from Microsoft about the role of SharePoint in Business Intelligence and Chris gloats about his Patriots winning the AFC Championship over Jason's beloved Jaguars. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Jan 30, 2018•33 min
This is episode 33 recorded on January 18th 2018… where John & Jason to Lori Gowin about her new role at Microsoft & her journey into Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Jan 23, 2018•31 min
This is episode 32 recorded on January 11th 2018… where John & Jason talk about scaling Power BI, it's limits, and how to overcome them. For show notes please visit https://www.bifocal.show
Jan 16, 2018•30 min
This is episode 31 recorded on January 9th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the January features updates to Power BI Desktop, some things they noticed in the Desktop client, and some User Voice submissions. For show notes please visit https://www.bifocal.show
Jan 11, 2018•29 min
This is episode 30 recorded in January 1st 2018… where John & Jason talk about the news from the past few weeks in Power BI, Office 365, and Azure.
Jan 03, 2018•30 min
This is episode 29 recorded in December 2017… where John & Jason talk to community members about their 2018 predictions & make a few themselves. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show
Dec 26, 2017•26 min
This is episode 28 recorded on December 14th, 2017… where John & Jason talk about the new SQL Server Management Studio 17.4, a new open source SQL Server CLI, a change to Power BI Premium, and the December updates to Power BI Deskop. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show
Dec 20, 2017•36 min