By John & Jason
Podcast by John White & Jason Himmelstein
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
This is episode 177 recorded on January 22nd, 2021 where John & Jason talk about some of their experiences at work with Power BI lately. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 176 recorded on January 8th, 2021 where John & Jason talk about Report Creation in the Power BI Service, the preview of Datasets Hub, and General Availability of the XMLA Read/Write end-point… plus we bring back Ideas.powerbi.com...
This is episode 175 recorded on December 15th, 2020 where John & Jason talk with Christian Wade about what's been happening around the enterprise capabilities for Power BI, how exciting working in the space is, and just bask in Christian's...
This is episode 174 recorded on December 21st, 2020 where John & Jason review the changes with Power BI over the past year, check out how they did on last year's predictions, and make some new predictions for 2021. For show...
This is episode 173 recorded on December 18th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI December 2020 Feature Summary including the DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services preview, Small Multiples preview, Anomaly detection in...
This is episode 172 recorded on December 14th, 2020 where John & Jason talk with Tessa & Jereon, from the Power BI Product Team, about some of the announcement in this month's release of Power BI Desktop. For show notes...
This is episode 171 recorded on December 4th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Azure Synapse Analytics reaching general availability and the announcement of Azure Purview in Public Preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 170 recorded on November 13th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Anomaly Detection & the Visual Data Prep public previews, and what’s new in Power Query & Dataflows. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 169 recorded on November 13th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI November 2020 Feature Summary including the New Field List & Model view previews, the Visual Zoom Slicer, and some Coming Soon attractions....
This is episode 168 recorded on November 13, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the public availability of the new Power BI premium per user license, as well as the preview on the Gen 2 Premium Architecture. For show...
This is episode 167 recorded on November 6, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the election… and then Power BI News. We promise we really do. Topics like Updates to Power BI Publish to web for better public reporting,...
This is episode 166 recorded on October 30, 2020 where John & Jason start talking about the October 2020 Power BI update, again, including updates to the mobile experience, a new HTML visual, major changes to Template Apps. For show notes...
This is episode 165 recorded on October 23, 2020 where John & Jason start talking about the October 2020 Power BI update - things like dynamic M queries, a new SharePoint list connectors but don’t quite get finished....
This is episode 164 recorded on October 16, 2020 where John & Jason talk about some recent news, the new Power BI app for Teams, alternative productivity tools, and Jason's blog post series on working from home. For show notes please...
This is episode 163 recorded on October 09, 2020 where John & Jason talk about how not to use Excel properly (listen up UK government..) and the role of Excel in Power BI today and in the future. For show notes...
This is episode 162 recorded on October 2, 2020 where John & Jason talk about a few changes to the monthly update announcements and go through the announcement for September. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 161 recorded on September 25th, 2020 where John & Jason talk with Chris Finlan, Principal Program Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, about the news from Microsoft Ignite including the Power Automate actions for Power BI, Premium...
This is episode 160 recorded on September 22th, 2020 where John & Jason recap the Power BI News from Microsoft Ignite with Patrick Leblanc & Adam Saxton, from Microsoft, aka Guy in a Cube with highlights such as Premium Per...
This is episode 159 recorded on September 11th, 2020 where John & Jason catch up on the Power BI News from the past few weeks and share insights about Microsoft Ignite. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 158 recorded on August 28th, 2020 where John & Jason catch up on the Power BI News from the past few weeks including re-imagined headers and navigation in the Power BI Mobile apps, Power BI data protection...
This is episode 157 recorded on August 21st, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Microsoft MVPs Mike Carlo & Seth Bauer, from PowerBI.tips, about their new tool Business Ops and all of the great stuff they do at PowerBI.Tips. For...
This is episode 156 recorded on August 14th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the August 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including dynamic formatting support to more visuals, Direct Query support for Q&A in preview, Text/CSV By Example in...
This is episode 155, our 3rd anniversary episode, recorded on August 7th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about updates to Microsoft Teams, the new Microsoft Ignite dates, some announcements about Power BI Workspaces & Dataflows, and some Ideas...
This is episode 154 recorded on July 22nd, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the July 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including Gradient Legend, Azure Maps Visuals, and the fact that Power BI Desktop now supports external-tool extensibility. For...
This is episode 153 recorded on July 9th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the newly released Microsoft Power Platform: 2020 release wave 2 plan for Power BI Mobile & the Power BI Service. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 152 recorded on July 9th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the newly released Microsoft Power Platform: 2020 release wave 2 plan for Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 151 recorded on June 25, 2020 where John & Jason talk about changes to some formerly useful custom visuals, Power BI Report Server licensing change, and a conversation about Apps. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 150, our sesquicentennial episode, recorded on June 17, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the June 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including Enhancements to mobile layout authoring, changes to the Hierarchy slicer, and Model view enabled...
This is episode 149 recorded on June 10, 2020 where John & Jason discuss John's latest blog post about Creating Data Driven Subscriptions for Power BI Reports, some Power Apps stuff, and some other tidbits. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 148 recorded on June 4, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the rest of the news from May 2020 including Power BI Report Server May 2020 Feature Summary, Power BI Dataflows Direct Query Support, and What’s...
This is episode 147 recorded on May 28, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Will Thompson, Group Program Manager for Power BI Creation Experiences about his vision, The future of Power BI authoring, and the correct way to...
This is episode 146 recorded on May 21, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the May 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including Curate featured tables for Excel coming to preview, Drop shadow support for visuals, Direct Query on Dataflows...
This is episode 145 recorded on May 15, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the April 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including being able to Personalize visuals (in preview), change detection for page refresh (in preview)and Direct Query support...
This is episode 144 recorded on May 7, 2020 where John & Jason recap announcements made during the Microsoft Business Applications Summit like connecting to multiple models in a single report, expansion of Direct Query support, Power BI Template layouts,...
This is episode 143 recorded on May 4, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Business Applications Summit, the delay of the April Desktop, Subreports now available in Paginated Reports, and John does a mea culpa. For show notes...
This is episode 142 recorded on April 16th, 2020 where John & Jason go over the Power BI News of the day, including the new workspace look and feel, improvements to Paginated reports, copying visuals, and more. For show...
This is episode 141 recorded on April 10th, 2020 where John & Jason talk in depth about Power BI Apps, Power BI Template Apps, discuss the announcement about Power BI Apps this week where designing custom navigation is becoming generally...
This is episode 140 recorded on April 3rd, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Azure Data Explorer, formerly known as Kusto, discuss some of the COVID data out in the ether, and the XMLA read\write end point that was...
This is episode 139 recorded on March 26th, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Rob Foster, Senior Manager at Deloitte & Office Apps and Services MVP, about his video on the COVID-19 data that inspired the new series on...
This is episode 138 recorded on March 16th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the March 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including New action types for buttons, Multi-column sort for tables, and the New Power BI Ribbon becomes the...
This is episode 137 recorded on March 2nd, 2020 where John & Jason talk about trouble with Calculation groups, the new Power BI tab in Microsoft Teams, and Power BI Home Changes. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 136 recorded on February 18th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the February 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including incremental refresh going GA & available for Pro users, the out of the box Hierarchical Slicer,...
This is episode 135 recorded on February 5th, 2020 where John & Jason catch up on some news including the Publish to Web default is changing, improved report usage metrics in modern workspaces, and the features in the January 2020...
This is episode 134 recorded on January 28th, 2020 where John & Jason walk through the Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 1 Plan in excruciating detail. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 133 recorded on January 24th, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Treb Gatte, CEO of Marquee Insights & Data Platform MVP, about getstartedwithpowerbi.com, the Microsoft Ignite announcements, and other community efforts to help people learn Power...
This is episode 132 recorded on January 16th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about some updates in Jason's world, discuss the Microsoft Ignite World Tour, and cover the latest news in Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 131 recorded on January 2nd, 2020 where John & Jason cover the news, review their predictions for 2019, and make predictions for 2020. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 130 recorded on December 20, 2019 where John & Jason walk through the latest version of Power BI Desktop, which includes a theme editor, data URLs, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
This is episode 129 recorded live at SharePoint Fest Chicago on December 11, 2019 where John & Jason cover off a few recent Power BI news items, and highlight some recent guidance around Power BI Premium. For show notes please visit...