This is episode 207 recorded on October 2nd, 2021 where John & Jason catch up on the September 2021 news such as a Preview Update to the Export Power BI report to file API, Power BI Embedded Analytics Playground Updates, and A New Admin API to determine who has access to what in now in Public Preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 206 recorded on September 23rd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the September 2021 Power BI updates including New formatting options for buttons, Insights is now in preview, Power BI Goals gets automated status rules, and a new Paginated Report Builder. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 205 recorded on September 17th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Patrick LeBlanc, one of those Guy in a Cube guys and the Chief Technical Evangelist for Power BI at Microsoft, about his new role, the Community, and what has him excited in the Analytics space. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 204 recorded on September 3rd, 2021 where John & Jason catch up on the August 2021 news such as the new Premium Metrics App, the new preview of Automatic Aggregations, and refresh history for changes made through the XMLA endpoint. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 203 recorded on August 27th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the August 2021 Power BI updates, including Default sensitivity label policy in Power BI desktop, Leverage automatic aggregations to enhance performance over DirectQuery datasets, Power BI REST API support for DAX Queries in preview, and Detailed historical activity information for Premium datasets. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 202 recorded on August 6th, 2021 where John & Jason review some Power BI news from the past few weeks such as Connected PivotTable refresh in Excel for the web is now 100% available to Office tenants, Updated Timeline and milestones for Premium Gen2 General Availability, and lots of cool new developer stuff. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 201 recorded on July 23rd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the July 2021 Power BI updates, including Streaming Dataflows and lots of cool stuff going GA. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 200 recorded on July 30th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Mike Fitzmaurice, Liz Sundet, and Jay Leask on the floor of the SPFest Chicago 2021 conference about being back to live events finally, Business Intelligence topics, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 199 recorded on July 16th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to the Microsoft Power Platform: 2021 release wave 2 plan & some other bits and bobs. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 198 recorded on June 28th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Treb Gatte, CEO of Marquee Insights & Data Platform MVP, about the new Power BI Goals feature & his experiences helping companies with their OKRs. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 197 recorded on June 30th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the June Power BI updates, including the new Paginated report visual, Improvements to Power BI dynamic M parameters, new dataset discoverability options, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 196 recorded on June 18th, 2021 where John & Jason recap the recent Power BI news like updates to the Power Platform Admin Center, Dataflow notifications to multiple people, Power BI Report Builder updates, and an updated timeline for the upgrade of all Power BI Workspaces to v2. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 195 recorded on June 11th, 2021 where John & Jason share their thoughts on the newly released feature in SharePoint Online from the Power BI team called "Quickly create reports from SharePoint lists". For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 194 recorded on June 4th, 2021 where John & Jason about to Andrew Brust, Microsoft MVP & Regional Director, ZDNet contributor and much more, the Microsoft data eco-system including Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI and the data world in general.
This is episode 193 recorded on May 21st, 2021 where John & Jason about to Laura Graham-Brown, UK based BizApps MVP & trainer extraordinaire, about SharePoint, Power Platform, and the Microsoft Community. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 192 recorded on May 14th, 2021 where John & Jason about the Power BI May 2021 Feature Summary including the Modern visual tooltips, Quickly create reports from SharePoint lists, and Share and Collaborate in Excel for the web connected to Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 191 recorded on May 7th, 2021 where John & Jason interview Miguel Llopis, Principal Program Manager for Power Query and Dataflows about the seismic shifts in the Power Query world, the new community resources for Power Query, and some future thinking in his space. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 190 recorded on May 5th, 2021 where John & Jason interview Arun Ulag, General Manager of Power BI Engineering at Microsoft, about all things Power BI from Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2021. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 18 recorded on April 21st, 2021 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI April 2021 Feature Summary including Power Automate for Power BI, New & Improved Shapes, Easy Report Sharing options, and the Microsoft Charticulator visual. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 188 recorded on April 16th, 2021 where John & Jason to Heather Newman, Principle Program Manager at Microsoft for Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Community Success, about her new role at Microsoft and all the great stuff they are doing to support and promote the Community. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 187 recorded on April 13th, 2021 where John & Jason to Stephanie Bruno, Associate Director of Informatics at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation & Data Platform MVP, about the Power BI Community, her work with the Foundation, The Data-Witches blog, and the changes coming in her world. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 186 recorded on April 5th, 2021 where John & Jason about the news from around the Power BI & Collaboration community, reflecting on MVP Summit, as well as a discussion on Premium per User now being GA. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 185 recorded on March 26th, 2021 where John & Jason about the news from March including VNet Connectivity for PBI Datasets, ODBC support available for Paginated Reports in public preview, and Power BI as a superset of Azure Analysis Services. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 184 recorded on March 24th, 2021 where John & Jason about the Power BI March 2021 Feature Summary including the Advanced Data Selection in Azure Maps Visual, External Tools integration in Desktop is now generally available, and a new dataset details view. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 183 recorded on March 12th, 2021 where John & Jason about John's click bait blog post where he talks about the validity of continuing to use Power Pivot in Excel. Jason takes the count point. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 182 recorded on March 4, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Microsoft Product Manager Chris Finlan about recent announcements around the Premium per user license, how it came about, and a few other interesting tidbits. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 181 recorded on February 26th, 2021 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI February 2021 Feature Summary including the DirectQuery for PBI datasets and Azure Analysis Services Updates (preview), Model View Updates, New filter operations, and a new color picker. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 180 recorded on February 19th, 2021 where John & Jason talk with Melissa Coates, Data Platform MVP & the owner of Coates Data Strategies, about all things Power BI Governance. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 179 recorded on February 5th, 2021 where John & Jason deep dive on the Best Practices Analyzer in Tabular Editor, an external tool for Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 178 recorded on February 5th, 2021 where John & Jason review the recently published Power BI 2021 release wave 1 roadmap. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
