This is episode 87 recorded on January 30, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the new Power Platform Admin Center and the recently published spring roadmap for the Power Platform. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Feb 14, 2019•39 min
This is episode 86 recorded on January 30, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the January 2019 release of Power BI Report Server, and improvements to the subscriptions feature in the Power BI Service. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Feb 06, 2019•25 min
This is episode 85 recorded on January 21, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the new personal bookmarks feature, and how to get the most out of Power Query with Power BI Dataflows. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Feb 02, 2019•21 min
This is episode 84 recorded on January 21, 2019 where John & Jason talk about Azure big data technologies, the Ignite world tour, and Power BI external dataflows. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Feb 02, 2019•27 min
This is episode 83 recorded on January 11th, 2019 where John & Jason talk Workspace Management in the Admin portal & the death of inappropriate anonymous embedding. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Jan 18, 2019•22 min
This is episode 82 recorded on December 18th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about the highlights of 2018 in the Power BI space & make some predictions for 2019. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Jan 01, 2019•45 min
This is episode 81 recorded live at SharePointFest Chicago on December 6th, 2018 where Jason talks Andrew Connell, co-host of the Microsoft Cloud Show and Instructor & Entrepreneur at Voitanos.io, about Azure AppInsights & developing for proper analytics. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Dec 25, 2018•43 min
This is episode 80 recorded on December 17th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about last update to Power BI Desktop in 2018 including features like Smart guides for aligning objects on a page & the preview of Live connect support for Q&A. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Dec 18, 2018•26 min
This is episode 79 recorded on November 28th, 2018 where John interviews Jen Stirrup, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Regional director about the state of Business Intelligence and its relationship to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and spends a little time talking about the competitive landscape. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Dec 15, 2018•23 min
This is episode 78 recorded on December 5th, 2018 live from SPFest Chicago where Jason talks with the other speakers on the BI track Treb Gatte, Liz Sundet, and Daniel Glenn about their perspectives on BI in the SharePoint space & their predictions for 2019. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Dec 07, 2018•38 min
This is episode 77 recorded on November 21st, 2018 where John & Jason talk about some new blogs posts from John and interview Arun Ulag, General Manager of Power BI Engineering at Microsoft, about all things Power BI at Microsoft Ignite on September 25th, 2018. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Nov 27, 2018•31 min
This is episode 76 recorded on November 21st, 2018 where John & Jason talk about all the new stuff in the latest Power BI Desktop like the updated filtering experience & the new modeling view now in preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Nov 22, 2018•29 min
This is episode 75 recorded on November 9th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about the news coming out of PASS Summit and break down the introduction of Dataflows. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Nov 13, 2018•30 min
This is episode 74 recorded on September 24th, 2018 where John & Jason interview Amir Netz, Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of Microsoft BI offerings at Microsoft, about all things Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Nov 07, 2018•50 min
This is episode 73 recorded on October 22nd, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Chris Finlan, Senior Program Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, about the Power BI Report Server, Paginated Report in the cloud via Power BI, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Oct 30, 2018•40 min
This is episode 72 recorded on October 19th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to about the October release of Power BI Desktop, and a little about publish to web reports. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Oct 23, 2018•34 min
This is episode 71 recorded on September 26th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about some new & exciting stuff they are each working on & interview Amanda Cofsky, Program Manager for Power BI, at Microsoft Ignite about what is coming to Power BI Desktop like Copy & Paste visuals between PBIX files. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Oct 18, 2018•39 min
This is episode 70 recorded on July 24th, 2018 where John talks to Kent Weare, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft Flow, at the Business Application Summit about Microsoft Flow & the announcement that was made at Microsoft Ignite on September 27th about Power Query Online Integration for Microsoft Flow. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Oct 09, 2018•26 min
This is episode 69 recorded on September 26th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Sundeep Meda, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, about RDL in the Cloud, field listener questions, the Power BI webpart in SharePoint Online, updates to Report Builder & Report viewer, Row level security in Power BI Report Server, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Oct 05, 2018•28 min
This is episode 68 recorded on September 26th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Adam Saxton, Microsoft's "Guy in a Cube", live at Microsoft Ignite 2018 about the new XMLA end points, Certified Data Sets, the shift to focus on Enterprise BI with Power BI Premium, the new ALM Toolkit, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Oct 04, 2018•23 min
This is episode 67 recorded on September 25th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Josh Caplan, Sr. Program Manager for Power BI, live at Microsoft Ignite 2018 about Power BI Premium, the new XMLA end points, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Oct 03, 2018•24 min
This is episode 66 recorded on September 14th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to about the September release of Power BI Desktop and make picks for Microsoft Ignite 2018. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Sep 18, 2018•32 min
This is episode 65 recorded on September 11th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Microsoft MVP and Regional Director Reza Rad about Reza's Power BI background, and our joint meetup at Microsoft Ignite. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.showFor show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Sep 13, 2018•24 min
This is episode 64 recorded on September 6th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Ignite and an alternative way to find sessions using Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Sep 07, 2018•24 min
This is episode 63 recorded on August 30th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Christian Wade, Senior Program Manager for Analysis Services at Microsoft, about Power BI in the Enterprise, the upcoming Aggregations feature, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Aug 31, 2018•36 min
This is episode 62 recorded on August 16th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI Report Server release & interview Adam Saxton, Microsoft's "Guy in a Cube". For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Aug 21, 2018•31 min
This is episode 61 recorded on August 9th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Lukasz Pawlowski, Senior Program Manager on the Power BI team at Microsoft, and mention highlights from the August Power BI Desktop release. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Aug 14, 2018•39 min
This is episode 60 recorded on August 7th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about a new initiative for Power BI Beginners & the deprecation and removal of BI Features in SharePoint 2019.
Aug 08, 2018•29 min
This is episode 59 recorded on July 31st, 2018 where John & Jason talk about SPSNYC, sessions for Ignite, and interview Will Thompson from the Power BI Desktop Team at Microsoft. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Aug 02, 2018•34 min
This is episode 58 recorded on July 25th 2018 where John & Jason talk about Business Application Summit after-the-fact, The Road Ahead for Power BI & SharePoint blog post, and do a deep dive on the Power BI Desktop update for July. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Jul 27, 2018•34 min