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. Fabric workloads are now generally available! Fabric + Microsoft 365 Data: Better Together  Microsoft Fabric November 2023 update Microsoft Fabric, explained for existing Synapse users Announcing General Availability: Explore the Capabilities of Real-Time Analytics in Microsoft Fabric Datasets r ..read more

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. Contents Reporting Power BI Desktop OneDrive and SharePoint integration On-object Interaction Updates   New! Date Hierarchy on data flyout New! Placeholder text for direct text editing New! Ribbon and Funnel charts now support on-object formatting. Power BI Home in Desktop Deduplication rules f ..read more

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. Contents General Upgrade Power BI Desktop .NET Framework to 4.7.2 or newer Reporting Mobile layout interactive canvas Modeling Edit your data model in the Power BI Service – Updates Edit linguistic relationships in Q&A setup DAX function changes to MINX and MAXX Edit relationships in the properties pane    Data Connectivity ..read more

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. The post Episode 264 – Interview With Heather Cook appeared first on BIFocal Podcast ..read more

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. The post Episode 264 – Interview With Heather Cook appeared first on BIFocal Podcast ..read more

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.Show Notes: Reporting New layout switcher New bubble range scaling setting On-Object Interaction – Updates Resizing and positioning to the on-object menus On-object format subselections now supported in spotlight and focus mode Modeling Updates to ORDERBY function Data Connectivity New modern data connectivity and discovery experience i ..read more

Description: This is episode 259 recorded on June 7th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Fabric licensing from a Power BI perspective. We’ll talk about Pro licenses, capacity-based licenses, the difference between P and F skus, and a whole lot more. Show Notes Understanding licensing for Microsoft Fabric from a Power BI perspective – The White Pages (bifocal.show) Announcing Microsoft Fabric capacities are available for purchase | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric Microsoft Fabric licenses – Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn (8) Microsoft Fabric (reddit.com) The post E ..read more

This is episode 258 recorded on June 5th, 2023 where John & Jason review the May 2023 updates to Power BI, and boy, it’s a doozey. We cover Microsoft Fabric updates, a whole bunch of GA announcements, data model editing in the service, paginated report drillthrough, and much more. Show Notes Special Announcements for Microsoft Fabric! Power BI Direct Lake mode is in public preview!  The Azure Analysis Services to Fabric and Power BI Premium Migration Experience is now GA!  Optimize ribbon in Power BI Desktop is now GA!   Hybrid tables is now GA!  Azure Log Anal ..read more

This is episode 257 recorded on May 3rd, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Rui Romano, Principal Program Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, about the upcoming advancements for developers using Power BI Developer mode. Show Notes: Introducing Microsoft Fabric and Copilot in Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Build Session: Empower every BI professional to do more with Microsoft Fabric Introducing git integration in Microsoft Fabric for seamless source control management Manage a workspace with git – Microsoft Fabric The post Episode 257 ..read more

This is episode 256 recorded on May 24th, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Gabi Münster, Senior Program Manager on the Fabric CAT Team at Microsoft, about the announcements made at Microsoft Build 2023. Notes: Introducing Microsoft Fabric: Data analytics for the era of AI Introducing Microsoft Fabric and Copilot in Microsoft Power BI fabric.microsoft.com Microsoft 365 Data + Microsoft Fabric better together Microsoft OneLake in Fabric, the OneDrive for data Introducing git integration in Microsoft Fabric for seamless source control management Introducing Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric I ..read more