This is episode 267 recorded on November 17th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the release to GA of Microsoft Fabric and everything around it Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft 365 Data in Microsoft Fabric, and the Public Preview of Copilot for Power BI in Microsoft Fabric.
This is episode 266 recorded on October 19th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for October 2023 including the Power BI Desktop OneDrive and SharePoint integration, Power BI Home in Desktop, and the ability to edit your data model in the Power BI Service.
This is episode 265 recorded on October 19th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for August 2023 including the interactive mobile canvas, changes to the online model editing experience, and GIT support for paginated reports.
This is episode 264 recorded some time in August where John & Jason talk to Heather Cook, Principal PM Manager at Microsoft for Power Platform, where we discuss the upcoming Power Platform Conference, the Microsoft community ecosystem, and learning & upskilling.
This is episode 263 recorded sometime in August where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for August 2023 including improvements to on-object interactions, XMLA write support for Direct Lake datasets, and improvements to the PBIP format.
This is episode 262 recorded on July 14th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for July 2023 including Smoothed and Leader lines, updates to On-object Interactions & editing your data model in the Power BI Service, and Datasets are coming to Power BI Mobile apps. We also cover some changes to the podcast that we are going to be making in the coming weeks. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/
This is episode 261 recorded on June 21st, 2023 where Jason talks with Microsoft MVPs & Community rockstars Laura Graham-Brown & Marc Lelijveld about Microsoft Fabric, being back to in person conferences, and the community in general. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/
This is episode 260 recorded on June 15th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for June 2023 including the new card visual, On-Object Interaction updates, admin monitoring, and Power BI Desktop Developer Mode. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/
This is episode 259 recorded on June 7th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Fabric licensing from a Power BI perspective. We'll talk about Pro licenses, capacity-based licenses, the difference between P and F SKUs, and a whole lot more. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/
This is episode 258 recorded on June 5th, 2023 where John & Jason review the May 2023 updates to Power BI, and boy, it's a doozey. We cover Microsoft Fabric updates, a whole bunch of GA announcements, data model editing in the service, paginated report drill through, and much more. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/
This is episode 257 recorded on May 3rd, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Rui Romano, Principal Program Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, about the upcoming advancements for developers using Power BI Developer mode. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/
This is episode 256 recorded on May 24th, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Gabi Münster, Senior Program Manager on the Fabric CAT Team at Microsoft, about the announcements made at Microsoft Build 2023. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/
This is episode 255 recorded on April 28th, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Rosie Levasseur, Senior Product Manager for Power BI, all about the on-object feature set and the changes that have and will be made for Power BI Creators. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/
This is episode 254 recorded on April 14th, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Emily Lisa, Senior Product Manager for Power BI, about the newly announced Public Preview of the "Edit your data model in the Power BI service" feature.
This is episode 253 recorded on April 12th, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Zoe Douglas, Senior Program Manager for Power BI, about Dynamic format strings for measures, the new Apply all slicers and Clear all slicers buttons, and the Optimize Ribbon.
This is episode 252 recorded on April 12, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for April 2023 including Dynamic format strings for measures, Filters for web created paginated reports, tooltip auto-scale and much more.
This is episode 251 recorded March 24th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about and the recap the news from the past few weeks in the Power BI space including the retirement of Streaming Dataflows, Query parallelism, Scanner API updates, and much more.
This is episode 250 recorded March 14th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the March 2023 Power BI updates which include the Apply all slicers button, Clear all slicers button, and Optimization presets update, Storytelling in PowerPoint and Power BI org app multiple audiences have gone GA, and the new on-object interaction.
This is episode 249 recorded February 17th, 2023 where Jason talks to Patrick LeBlanc, Principal Program Manager on the Power BI CAT Team at Microsoft & a Guy in a Cube, about the February 2023 Power BI updates which include the Enhanced row-level security editor, Conditional Formatting based on string fields, new DAX functions, and Paginated Reports updates.
This is episode 248 recorded on January 24th, 2023 where John & Jason review the Microsoft Power BI 2023 release wave 1 plan that covers the roadmap from April to September of 2023. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 247 recorded January 20th, 2023 where John & Jason interview Scott Sewell, Principal Program Manager on the CAT Team at Microsoft, about Dataverse, Dynamics 365, and Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 246 recorded January 9th, 2023 where John & Jason review their wins & losses with their 2022 predictions and prognosticate about what they see happening in 2023. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 245 recorded on January 6th, 2023 where John & Jason do a year in review for all things Power BI in 2022. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 244 recorded December 21st, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the news from November & December in the Power BI space including new cache refresh settings available in Power BI Premium, subscribe to a report with filters applied, Dataset refresh cancellation is now available in Power BI Premium, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 243 recorded December 14th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the December 2022 Power BI updates which include Slicer type formatting moved to Format Pane, Making it easier to do comparison calculations, and Upcoming changes to the ‘Get Data’ experience in the Power BI Service. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 242 recorded November 23th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the November 2022 Power BI updates which include New Power BI Color Accent, Create dynamic slicers using field parameters, New way to upload Power BI and Excel files, and Formatted Tables Authoring Experience updates. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 241 recorded November 11th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the big news from Microsoft about Paginated Reports now being available to Power BI Pro users, Save a copy of a report & Collapse navigation pane in Organizational App, and Improvements to chart sharing and copy as image are coming soon. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 240 recorded November 2nd, 2022 where Jason talks to Mohammad Ali, Principal Group Program Manager for the Creator Experiences in Power BI at Microsoft, about what his team announced at Microsoft Ignite, and his viewpoint on the near term and long-term vision for the future of Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 239 recorded October 27th, 2022 where John & Jason cover the Power BI related news from the past few weeks including AAD-based filtration for Power BI Datamarts, the Power Query SDK for Visual Studio Code, and Cross-tenant Power BI Dataset Sharing. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 238 recorded October 20th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the October 2022 Power BI updates which include the new experimental Quick Measure Suggestions, Improved PBIX downloading options, and DAX formula editing in the Desktop Model view. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
