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Episodes
Episode 121 - October 2019 Power BI Desktop Update & News
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 121 recorded on October 15th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the October Power BI Desktop features including Automatic page refres...
Episode 120 Power BI News update
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 120 recorded on October 2nd, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the Microsoft Ignite schedule builder and a whole bunch of news items ...
Episode 119 Power Platform 2019 Roadmap Wave 2 Plan
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 119 recorded on September 27th, 2019 where John & Jason talk through the Microsoft Power Platform 2019 Release Wave 2 Plan and highlig...
Episode 118 - September 2019 Power BI Desktop Update
21 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 118 recorded on September 19th, 2019 where John & Jason walk through the September 2019 Power BI Desktop update, and highlight some im...
Episode 117 Interview with Chris Webb
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 117 recorded on September 5th, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Chris Webb, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft on the Power BI CAT ...
Episode 116 - Interview with Marco Russo
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 116 recorded on September 5th, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Marco Russo about Analysis in general, community efforts, and his new b...
Episode 115 August 2019 Power BI Desktop Update & News
30 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 115 recorded on August 29th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the latest News, Ignite update & the August Power BI Desktop news incl...
Episode 114 Live from SharePointFest Seattle with Chris Finlan
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 114 recorded on August 21st, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Chris Finlan, Principal Program Manager for Power BI, about his experienc...
Episode 113 Summer News Round Up
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 113 recorded on August 14st, 2019 where John & Jason recap all the news that fit to hear from Summer 2019 like Sending refresh notific...
Episode 112 Changing the laws of Physics with Christian Wade
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 112 recorded on August 7st, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Christian Wade, Senior Program Manager for Analysis Services at Microsoft,...
Episode 111 July 2019 Power BI Desktop Update
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 111 recorded on August 1st, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the latest update to Power BI Desktop including Icon sets for table and...
Episode 110 - All About Ignite with Anna Chu
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 110 recorded on July 25th, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Anna Chu from Microsoft about all of the opportunities available for commun...
Episode 109 - Interview with Reid Havens
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 109 recorded on July 18th, 2019 where John & Jason review some community news, and John interviews Reid Havens of Havens consulting ab...
Episode 108 - Interview with Justyna Lucznik
13 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 108 - Interview with Justyna Lucznik by John White & Jason Himmelstein
Episode 107 - Power BI News & MVP Renewals
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 107 recorded on July 2nd, 2019 where John & Jason talk about MVP Renewals, the World Cup, and a whole bunch of Power BI News including...
Episode 106 - Interview with Chris Finlan about Paginated Reports in the Power BI Service
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 106 - Interview with Chris Finlan about Paginated Reports in the Power BI Service by John White & Jason Himmelstein
Episode 105 - June 2019 Power BI Desktop Update
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 105 recorded on June 13th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the latest update to Power BI Desktop including the new look for Power B...
Episode 104 - Power BI Keynote from MBAS
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 104 recorded on June 10th, 2019 live from Microsoft's Business Applications Summit where John & Jason talk about all of the announceme...
Episode 103 - Community Update & MBAS chatter
09 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 103 recorded on June 7th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the Microsoft Community, plans for the Microsoft Business Applications Su...
Episode 102 - May 2019 News Update
01 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 102 recorded at European Collaboration Summit in Wiesbaden, Germany on May 29th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about latest Power BI ne...
Episode 101 - May 2019 Power BI Desktop Update
25 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 101 recorded on May 23rd, 2019 where John & Jason talk about latest update to Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifo...
Episode 100 - A measurable milestone
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 100 recorded on May 16th, 2019 where John & Jason make a big deal about episode 100, talk about how they got here, some of the events...
Episode 99 - Interview with Abram Jackson & Tyler Lenig
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 99 where John & Jason talk to Abram Jackson & Tyler Lenig, Program Managers from the Graph Data Connect Team, about the release of Mi...
Episode 98 - Power BI News
04 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 98 recorded on May 2nd, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Treb Gatte, Managing Partner at Tumble Road, about all the exciting Power BI n...
Episode 97 - Interview with Matthew Roche
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 97 recorded on March 21st, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Matthew Roche, Senior Program Manager on the Power BI CAT team, about Dataf...
Episode 96 - April 2019 Power BI Desktop Update & more news
16 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 96 recorded on April 15th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about latest update to Power BI Desktop the including features like Drillthrou...
Episode 95 - Holy Power BI news!
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 95 recorded on April 8th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about all of the news just from last week that the Power BI team announced. Fo...
Episode 94 - Interview with Aviv Ezrachi
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 94 recorded on March 19th, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Aviv Ezrachi, Principle Program Manager for Power BI, about his role with t...
Episode 93 - Interview with Kim Manis
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 93 recorded on March 18th, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Kim Manis, Principal Group Product Manager for Power BI, about her role on ...
Episode 92 - March 2019 Power BI Desktop Update
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 92 recorded on March 15th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about latest update to Power BI Desktop the including features like Single sel...
Episode 91 - Interview with Shane Young
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 91 recorded on February 11th, 2019 where Jason talks to Shane Young, PowerApps consultant with PowerApps911 & SharePoint and PowerApps...
Episode 90 - News & using Power BI with Microsoft Teams
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 90 recorded on March 1st, 2019 where John & Jason talk about latest Power BI news & Jason talks about using Power BI with Microsoft Te...
Episode 89 - February 2019 Power BI Desktop Update
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 89 recorded on February 22nd, 2019 where John & Jason talk about latest update to Power BI Desktop the including features like update ...
Episode 88 - Catching up on the news
24 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 88 recorded on February 22nd, 2019 where John & Jason catch up on all the February news from the Power BI team including 3 updates fro...
Episode 87 - The Administration Center
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ro...
Episode 86 - It's Cold Out
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 85 - Power Power Query
02 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 84 - Databricks & External Dataflows
02 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 externa...
Episode 83 - The death of inappropriate anonymous embedding
18 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 83 recorded on January 11th, 2019 where John & Jason talk Workspace Management in the Admin portal & the death of inappropriate anonym...
Episode 82 - 2018 Power BI Wrap Up
01 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 81 - Interview with Andrew Connell
25 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 80 - Decemeber 2018 Power BI Desktop Update
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 79 - Interview with Jen Stirrup
15 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 79 recorded on November 28th, 2018 where John interviews Jen Stirrup, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Regional director about the stat...
Episode 78 - Interview with the SPFest BI Speakers
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 S...
Episode 77 - Interview with Arun Ulag
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Manag...
Episode 76 - Power BI Desktop's Biggest Update
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 fil...
Episode 75 - PASS Summit News & Dataflows
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Interview with Amir Netz
07 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 74 recorded on September 24th, 2018 where John & Jason interview Amir Netz, Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of Microsoft BI offer...
Episode 73 - Interview with Chris Finlan
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 72 - October Desktop Update
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 71 - Interview with Amanda Cofsky
18 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 71 recorded on September 26th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about some new & exciting stuff they are each working on & interview Amand...
Episode 70 - Interview with Kent Weare
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 70 recorded on July 24th, 2018 where John talks to Kent Weare, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft Flow, at the Business Applicati...
Episode 69 - Interview with Sundeep Meda
05 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 C...
Episode 68 - Live from Ignite with Adam Saxton
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 67 - Interview with Josh Caplan
03 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 66 - Power BI Desktop Update & Ignite Session picks
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Micr...
Episode 65 - Meetup with Reza Rad
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 back...
Episode 64 - Ignite Schedule Builder
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 63 - Interview with Christian Wade
31 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 63 recorded on August 30th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Christian Wade, Senior Program Manager for Analysis Services at Microsoft,...
Episode 62 - Interview with Adam Saxton
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 61 - Interview with Lukasz Pawlowski
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Episode 60 - End of an Era
08 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 59 - Interview with Will Thompson
02 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 B...
Episode 58 - Power BI Desktop Update & the Road Ahead
27 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 & ...
Episode 57 - Business Application Summit Keynote Recap
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 57 recorded on July 23rd 2018 where John & Jason recap the announcements at the 2018 Business Application Summit in Seattle, Washingto...
Episode 56 - June Developer & Gateway news
13 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 56 recorded on July 12th 2018 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Research Open Data, Developer & Gateway news, Power BI Desktop v...
Episode 55 - Power Of The Cloud
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 54 - Miscellaneous News
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Exce...
Episode 53 - New Initiatives
20 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 53 recorded on June 13th 2018… where John & Jason talk about new initiatives in their world, discussed MyAnalytics, Azure Machine Le...
Episode 52 - Power BI Desktop June update
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 sh...
Episode 51 - Power BI news
09 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 50 - Live from SPCNA
01 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 50 recorded live on May 21st 2018… where John & Jason talk the announcements & other things happening at the SharePoint Conference N...
Episode 49 - SPCNA session picks with Liz Sundet
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 49 recorded on May 15th, 2018… where John & Jason talk to Liz Sundet, Office Servers & Services MVP from Minnesota, about the upcomi...
Episode 48 - Power BI Desktop May updates
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 2...
Episode 47 - Update on Excel with Olaf Hubel
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 47 recorded on April 30th 2018… where John & Jason interview Olaf Hubel, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the Excel Engineerin...
Episode 46 - Community news & updates
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 46 recorded on April 17th 2018… where John & Jason talk about a whole bunch of miscellaneous items including GDPR, OneNote, Moving f...
Episode 45 - All about the new CDSA & CDS-A
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Analy...
Episode 44 - Power BI Desktop, Gateway, & Developer updates
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 De...
Episode 43 - Chat about the Power BI Community with Chuck Sterling
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Pow...
Episode 42 - All about Power BI Embedded
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 42 recorded on March 23rd 2018… where John & Jason talk to Megan Assarrane, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft for Power ...
Episode 41 - The New Power BI Report Server is here!
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 40 - Power BI News & Updates
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 specia...
Episode 39 - Power BI Desktop & External Sharing Update
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Po...
Episode 38 - Come on get App-y
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Episode 37 - Power BI Service Feature Update
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 36 - February Power BI Desktop Update
14 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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, rest...
Episode 35 - Upgrading SQL Server Reporting Services
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 35 recorded on January 23rd 2018… where John & Jason discuss SQL Server Reporting Services in the overall Microsoft BI stack & the u...
Episode 34 - The role of SharePoint in BI
30 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 34 recorded on January 23rd 2018… where John interviews Chris McNulty from Microsoft about the role of SharePoint in Business Intell...
Episode 33 - Beginning a Power BI journey with Lori Gowin
23 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 32 - Size Matters
16 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 n...
Episode 31 - January Power BI Desktop Update News
11 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 no...
Episode 30 - New Years News
03 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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.
Episode 29 - 2018 Predictions
26 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 29 recorded in December 2017… where John & Jason talk to community members about their 2018 predictions & make a few themselves. Fo...
Episode 28 - SQL Server news & December's Power BI Desktop updates
20 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 S...
Episode 27 - Interview with Paul Schaeflein
12 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 27 recorded on December 6th, 2017 from SharePointFest Chicago… where John & Jason talk to Paul Schaeflein about helping people trans...
Episode 26 - OnPrem Data Gateway & Power BI Developer news
08 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 26 recorded on December 6th, 2017 from SharePointFest Chicago… where John & Jason talk about the latest updates to the OnPrem Data G...
Episode 25 – Guests for Thanksgiving
29 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 25 recorded on November 24th, 2017… Black Friday… or as we call it, Analytics Friday… where John & Jason talk about Power BI Gue...
Episode 24 - November's Power BI Desktop news & more
24 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 24 recorded on November 17th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the latest updates to Power BI Desktop, some new custom visuals...
Episode 23 - Interview with Dave Feldman
14 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 23 recorded on November 7th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the new single-sign on methods for the Power BI service and an i...
Episode 22 - Power BI Report Server release news
07 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 22 recorded on November 2nd, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the brand new release of Power BI Report Server, PowerApp visual...