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March 19, 2018Business Intelligence, Power BI Report Server, SQL Server

Episode 41 – The New Power BI Report Server is Here

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 and SQL Server Reporting […]
January 26, 2018Uncategorized

Power BI Reporting on a Multi-value SharePoint Column

Hey all – John here. One of the things that we get asked frequently is how to report on SharePoint data. The answer is of course, “well, it’s easy, but […]
January 16, 2018Azure, Business Intelligence, Power BI

Episode 32 – Size Matters

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. iTunes ratings contest We are […]
January 11, 2018Business Intelligence, Power BI

Episode 31 – Power BI Desktop January Update

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 noticed in the Desktop […]
January 3, 2018Uncategorized

Episode 30 – New Years News

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. […]
December 26, 2017Business Intelligence, Power BI

Episode 29 – 2018 Predictions from the Community

This is episode 29 recorded in December 2017… where John & Jason talk to community members about their 2018 predictions & make a few themselves. A special thank you to […]
December 20, 2017Business Intelligence, Power BI, SQL Server

Episode 28 – December’s SQL Server & Power BI Desktop updates

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 Server CLI, a […]
December 18, 2017Business Intelligence

Listener contribution ask for 2018 Prediction episode

As we close in on the end of 2017 and we decided to do something a bit different with our final episode of the year, episode 29. We are calling […]
December 13, 2017Business Intelligence, Power BI, Power BI Report Server

Episode 27 – A chat with Paul Schaeflein on Power BI & Microsoft Teams

This is episode 27 recorded on December 6th, 2017 from SharePointFest Chicago… where John & Jason talk to Paul Schaeflein about helping people transform applications using Microsoft Teams, authentication stuff […]
December 8, 2017Uncategorized

Episode 26 – OnPrem Data Gateway & Power BI Developers news

This is episode 26 recorded on December 6th, 2017 from SharePointFest Chicago… where John & Jason talk about the latest updates to the OnPrem Data Gateway, the technical reference implementation […]
November 28, 2017Business Intelligence, Power BI

Episode 25 – Power BI Guest Access

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 Guest Access using Azure […]
November 24, 2017Uncategorized

Episode 24 – November’s Power BI Desktop update & more

This is episode 24 recorded on November 17th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the latest Power BI Desktop update, some new custom visuals, and some community contribution […]
November 14, 2017Office 365 Reporting, Power BI, Power BI Report Server

Episode 23 – Interview with Dave Feldman

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 interview with […]
November 7, 2017Business Intelligence, Power BI, Power BI Report Server, SQL Server

Episode 22 – Power BI Report Server release news

This is episode 22 recorded on November 2nd, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the brand new release of Power BI Report Server, PowerApps custom visuals, & Power […]
November 2, 2017Uncategorized

Episode 21 – Miguel Llopis, PM for On-Prem Data Gateway and Power Query

This is episode 21 recorded at Microsoft Ignite on September 26th, 2017. This is the last of our Ignite interviews. We had the privilege of sitting down at length with […]
October 23, 2017Business Intelligence, Office 365 Reporting, Power BI

Episode 20 – Ignite recap and Office 365 Reporting with the tyGraph Team

This is episode 20 recorded on October 3rd, 2017 where John & Jason talk to John’s colleagues, Ed Senez & Dean Swann from tyGraph to debrief on Microsoft Ignite from […]
October 17, 2017Business Intelligence, Power BI

Episode 19 – Dummy proofing for Executives

This is episode 19 recorded on October 12th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the news including a new version & way of deploying Power BI Desktop and […]
October 10, 2017Business Intelligence, Power BI, Uncategorized

Episode 18 – Office 365 Reporting with Anne & Shilpi

This is episode 18 recorded at Microsoft Ignite on September 27th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to Anne Michels & Shilpi Sinha from the Office 365 Product Team about […]
October 5, 2017Business Intelligence, Power BI Report Server, SQL Server

Episode 17 – Live from Ignite with Chris Finlan

This is episode 17 recorded on September 26th, 2017 where John & Jason interview Chris Finlan, Program Manager on the SQL Server Reporting Services/Power BI Reporting Server team live at […]
October 3, 2017Business Intelligence, Power BI

Episode 16 – Live from Ignite with Sirui Sun

This is episode 16 recorded on September 13th, 2017 where John & Jason interview Sirui Sun, Program Manager on the Power BI team live at Ignite 2017, and talked at […]