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.
Tag: Microsoft Ignite
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 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 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 Office 365 Reporting.
Show Notes:
Anne’s Ignite News post:
Office 365 Adoption Content Pack –> 22 reports
2 new usage reporting for Microsoft Teams released at Ignite
The Office 365 Adoption Content Pack in Power BI to go GA at the beginning of 2018 and will be rebranded to Office 365 Usage Analytics
Reports Reader Role
Available as of Sept 27th
Graph Reporting APIs go GA
Other topics:
SharePoint & OneDrive Admin Center updates
To get early access to the preview version of the new SharePoint admin center, please register at https://aka.ms/joinAdminPreview
Office 365 Usage Analytics will be GDPR compliant
Where to find info about Office 365 Reporting information online:
Office 365 Message Center: https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home#/MessageCenter
Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/bg-p/Office365Blog
Office 365 Roadmap: https://www.office365.com/roadmap
Support Center: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Activity-Reports-in-the-Office-365-admin-center-0d6dfb17-8582-4172-a9a9-aed798150263
Anne & Shilpi’s Ignite sessions
BRK2039: Understand how your users are using Office 365: Introducing Advanced usage reporting tools
Via MyIgnite: https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/53327
YoutTube: Understand how your users are using Office 365: Introducing Advanced usage reporting tools
BRK2011: Understand how your users are using Office 365: What’s new in usage reporting
Via MyIgnite: https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/53258
YoutTube: Understand how your users are using Office 365: What’s new in usage reporting – BRK2011
BRK1009: Manage Office 365 more effectively: What’s new in Office 365 administration
Via MyIgnite: https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/53331
YouTube: Manage Office 365 more effectively: What’s new in Office 365 administration – BRK1009
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 Ignite 2017, and talked at length about the announcements made at Ignite 2017, and about on-premises BI in general.
This interview was streamed live on Facebook, and can be seen below.
Show Notes:
August 2017 Preview of Power BI Report Server
SQL Server Reporting Services 2017
Report Viewer Web Part for SSRS Native Mode