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.
Episode 70 – Interview with Kent Weare
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.
Show Notes:
Announcing Power Query Online Integration for Microsoft Flow
Microsoft Flow: Digitally transform your business – Jon Levesque, Kent Weare
Build a workflow in 10 minutes –
Jon Levesque, Kent Weare
Episode 69 – Interview with Sundeep Meda
This is episode 69 recorded live in Orlando at Microsoft Ignite September 26th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Sundeep Meda Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, along with Adam Saxton, live at Microsoft Ignite 2018 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. This is the second part of the live recording done from the podcast studio at Microsoft Ignite 2018.
Video Version
Show Notes:
Ignite Session – THR2052 – Microsoft Power BI: End-to-end enterprise data reporting Report Viewer Web Part for SharePoint
Episode 68 – Live from Ignite with Adam Saxton
This is episode 68 recorded live in Orlando at Microsoft Ignite 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.
Video Version
Show Notes:
Guy In A Cube – YouTube Channel
Power BI “Keynote” at Ignite – BRK2148 – Microsoft Power BI: The future for modern and enterprise BI
Ignite Session – BRK3400 – Microsoft Power BI: Deploying and managing Premium capacities to your entire organization (Josh Caplan and Adam Saxton)
Ignite Session – BRK3106 – Microsoft Power BI: Embedding analytics in your apps and portals (Adam Saxton)
Episode 67 – Interview with Josh Caplan
This is episode 67 recorded live in Orlando at Microsoft Ignite 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. .
Video version
Show Notes:
For the video of this interview, check out our channel on YouTube –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGLwGcWtR94
Ignite Session – BRK3400 – Microsoft Power BI: Deploying and managing Premium capacities to your entire organization (Josh Caplan and Adam Saxton)
Episode 66 – Power BI Desktop Update & Ignite Session picks
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.
Show Notes:
Power BI Desktop – September 2018
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-september-2018-feature-summary/
Here’s the complete list of September updates:
Reporting
- Dot plot layout support in scatter charts
- Copy value and selection from table & matrix
- Built-in report theme options
- Report page tooltips generally available & Card support
- Accessibility improvements for analytics and formatting pane support
Analytics
Custom visuals
Data connectivity
- PDF file connector (preview)
- SAP BW connector – support for measure properties
- Dataflows connector (beta)
Data preparation
Stuff to watch
Unlock petabyte-scale datasets in Azure with aggregations in Power BI
Scott Hanselman & Christian Wade
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/Unlock-petabyte-scale-datasets-in-Azure-with-aggregations-in-Power-BI
Ignite Sessions to highlight
GS007 – Microsoft PowerApps, Power BI, and Flow: Power platform vision and roadmap
Arun Ulagaratchagan, Charles Lamanna, Keith Whatling, Richard Riley
https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/66664
BRK3107 – Microsoft Power BI Premium: Building enterprise-grade BI models for big data
Christian Wade, Josh Caplan
https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/65442
BRK3108 – Microsoft Power BI: Enabling and governing self-service analytics
Adam Saxton, Lukasz Pawloski
https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/65444
BRK2218 – Microsoft Power BI Desktop: Data exploration, analysis and storytelling
Amanda Cofsky, Will Thompson
https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/65435
BRK2099 – Upgrade your social communities to knowledge-based communities
Dean Swann, John White
https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/65625
Episode 65 – Meetup with Reza Rad
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.
Reza Rad is an Author, Trainer, Speaker and Consultant. He has a BSc in Computer engineering; he has more than 15 years’ experience in databases, programming and development mostly on Microsoft technologies. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP for seven continues years (from 2011 till now) for his dedication in Microsoft BI. Reza is author of Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star and some other books. He is training and consulting on Microsoft BI and Data Analytics technologies.
Show Notes:
Meetup at Ignite with John, Jason & Reza
https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/66510
RADACAD
radacad.com
Power BI Helper
http://radacad.com/power-bi-helper
Upcoming Events
Microsoft Ignite 9/24-9/28
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ignite
European SharePoint Conference 11/26-11/29
https://www.sharepointeurope.com/
SharePointFest Chicago
https://sharepointfest.com/Chicago/
SPTechCon Boston – February 10 – 13, 2019
https://www.sptechcon.com/west
North American Collaboration Summit – March 14 – 16, 2019
http://www.collabsummit.org/
SPFest DC – April 29 – May 3, 2019
https://sharepointfest.com/Chicago/
SharePoint Conference 2019 – May 21 – 23, 2019
http://www.sharepointna.com
Eurpoean Collaboration Summit – May 27 – 29, 2019
http://www.collabsummit.eu
Episode 64 – Microsoft Ignite Schedule Builder
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.
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.
Show Notes
Microsoft Ignite Schedule Builder
Episode 63 – Interview with Christian Wade
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 Manage Aggregations feature, and more.
Show notes
Capacity monitoring
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-monitoring-capabilities-for-power-bi-premium-capacities/
Ignite session scheduler & Twitter
Ignite session scheduler & Twitter
https://link.tygraph.com/IgniteSessions
https://link.tygraph.com/IgniteTweets
Christian’s Talks at Business Application Summit
Building a data model to support 1 trillion rows of data and more with Microsoft Power BI Premium
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/businessapplicationssummit/video/BAS2018-2172
Building Enterprise grade BI models with Microsoft Power BI Premium- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/businessapplicationssummit/video/BAS2018-2115
Upcoming Events
Microsoft Ignite 9/24-9/28
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ignite
European SharePoint Conference 11/26-11/29
https://www.sharepointeurope.com/
SharePointFest Chicago
https://sharepointfest.com/Chicago/
SPTechCon Boston – February 10 – 13, 2019
https://www.sptechcon.com/west
North American Collaboration Summit – March 14 – 16, 2019
http://www.collabsummit.org/
SPFest DC – April 29 – May 3, 2019
https://sharepointfest.com/Chicago/
SharePoint Conference 2019 – May 21 – 23, 2019
http://www.sharepointna.com
Eurpoean Collaboration Summit – May 27 – 29, 2019
http://www.collabsummit.eu
Episode 62 – Guy In A Cube
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”.