This is episode 284 recorded on October 9th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the FabCon Europe 2024 and all of the announcements made there.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 283 recorded on September 4th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric August 2024 Feature Summary.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 282 recorded on August 23rd, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Power BI August 2024 Feature Summary including Ask Copilot questions against your semantic model in Desktop, Visual level format strings, DAX query view in the web, and the narrative visual with Copilot in embedded.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 281 recorded on August 9th, 2024 where John & Jason talk to Charles Webb, Principal PM Manager for Data Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric, about Fabric, Data Warehouse, his history with Power BI & Dataflows, AI, college sports & business, his work in philanthropy and much more.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 280 recorded on July 24th, 2024 where John & Jason talk to Josh Caplan, Principle Group Product Manager for OneLake in Microsoft Fabric, about Fabric, OneLake, Shortcuts and much more.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 279 recorded on July 11th, 2024 where John & Jason talk about the Microsoft Fabric, including Power BI, June 2024 Feature Summary including a Visual Calcs update, updates to downloading large semantic models, the new PBIR file format, and external sharing API for OneLake, a Spark Connector for Fabric Datawarehouse, and much more.…

This is episode 278 recorded on May 24th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the news from Microsoft Build 2024 including lots of great new stuff for developers in Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake Apache Iceberg shortcuts, and the announcement of Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 277 recorded on May 10th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the news in the Power BI space including Power Query support in paginated reports, Copilot Pane in Power BI Desktop & Copilot being available by default soon, and the announcement of support for reports in SharePoint & OneDrive with live connected semantic models.…

This is episode 276 recorded on April 22nd, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Power BI April 2024 Feature Summary including the announcements made at FabCon in Vegas, Enhanced Q&A, Storytelling in PowerPoint, and Copilot in Power BI Desktop.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 275 recorded on April 22nd, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary including on-object interactions update, Power Query in Paginated Reports, DAX Query View updates with Copilot, enhancements to model editing in the service, and more.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 274 recorded on March 19th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Power BI February 2024 Feature Summary including updates to Visual Cals, Power BI Home, Measure descriptions with Copilot, Data overview in Explore, and TMDL in Power BI Desktop Developer Mode.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 273 recorded on January 26, 2024 where John & Jason talk to Alex Powers, Senior Program Manager on the Power BI CAT Team at Microsoft, about Copilot in Data Factory and much, much more.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 272 recorded on January 12, 2024 where John & Jason do the annual year end wrap-up. Jason comes out ahead on his predictions from 2023 - but only by a little, and everybody has a few interesting predictions for 2024.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 271 recorded on December 15rd, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI December 2023 Feature Summary including a Community update, On-object Interaction updates, Extended customization for data labels, and the OneLake datahub in Power BI Desktop.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 270 recorded on December 3rd, 2023 live from the Autobahn where John & Jason talk about what they have been up to lately including presenting at ESPC23, their visit to CERN, and the upcoming Microsoft Fabric Community Conference.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 269 recorded on November 22st, 2023 where John & Jason talk the Power BI November 2023 Feature Summary, part 2, including the new Explore feature, OneLake integration for Import-mode semantic models, and stored credentials for Direct Lake semantic models.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 268 recorded on November 21st, 2023 where John & Jason talk the Power BI November 2023 Feature Summary, for way too long and have to split the episode in 2 parts, including the new button slicer, DAX Query view, the Dataset rename to Semantic Models, and much more.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

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.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

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.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

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.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

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.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

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.Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

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 …

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/Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein

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/Oleh John White & Jason Himmelstein