We’re back! In this episode Alexander and Simon try to remember how to podcast, and discuss the Power BI August update, the implications of Azure Government being rated for Top Secret information in the US, Power BI named the leader in the Forrester Wave, Windows 11 being imminent, the dangers of preconceptions and finally titles […]

In this second special episode on community, we talk to Tomaz Kastrun and Heini Ilmarinen about what motivates people to get involved in the community! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here: Show notes:

In this first in a discussion series on community, Alexander and Simon talk to Tomaz Kastrun, a data platform MVP from Slovenia. Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here: Show notes:

In this episode, Simon and Alexander chat to Christos Matskas, a PM and a developer advocate on the identity team at Microsoft! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here: Show notes:

In this episode, Alexander talks to Kurt Buhler from Ordina in Belgium about data, visuals and storytelling! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:

In this episode, Alexander and Simon talk about DataOps, the April update of Power BI Desktop (and especially Charticulator and the Power Automate visual), Microsoft buying Nuance, news in InTune, some new Microsoft hardware and Microsoft Defender for unmanaged devices! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here: Show […]

In this episode, Alexander and Simon talk about data literacy, the recent Azure AD outage, issues with Windows updates, new Power BI updates, Microsoft in talks to buy Discord and InTune turning 10! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here: Show notes: Microsoft halts rollout of Windows 10 […]

In this first of many upcoming biweekly interview episodes, Alexander have a chat with Heini Ilmarinen about career twists and turns, learning, and getting in to the technology field! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes:

In this episode, the focus segment is all about Windows Admin Center – what, how and why! The trio also touches on Microsoft Viva, news in Intune, the new security exams, the new Power BI model best practice rules, Azure Purview and exciting news with Power BI Embedded! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes […]

We’re back! In this new-format episode, a.k.a “tune in to intune”, the trio talk about how to succeed with Intune and MDM, new Intune and Power BI features and what is in the pipe for community involvment! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes: Simon’s […]

In this episode, the trio talk about the Microsoft earnings report, new samples available in Azure Synapse Analytics, Windows Server Summit 2020, Microsoft Teams having a new record number of daily users, and small usability improvements in Power BI.  Show notes: Microsoft earnings report New samples available in Azure Synapse Analytics SMB over Quic […]

In this episode, Alexander and Simon talk about the Windows October Update, Power BI Desktop October Update, the new Azure Modular Datacenter, Trump’s opinon on cybersecurity and why there is a huge Xbox in Flight Simulator.  Show notes:

In this episode, the trio talk about JAMF, new features in Intune, the ARC enabled SQL Server in preview, the “insane amazing” smart narrative visual in Power BI, the leaked Windows XP source code and finally the new Surface devices!  Show notes: Intune news JAMF announcements ARC enabled SQL Server Smart Narratives x64 emulation […]

In this episode, Simon and Toni talk about the upcoming Microsoft Ignite, Surface Duo, running Windows 10 on Surface Hub, Quest buying Binary Tree and Windows vNext on a Hyper-V box! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes: Windows 10 available on Surface Hub Quest […]

In this somewhat special, vaction-y episode, Alexander talks to Don Jones about all things training! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:   

In this episode, the trio talk about our first ESMUG meetup, Microsoft pulling all Facebook advertising, updates to Azure Data Lake, the Teams June preview and what’s new in InTune! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes: East Sweden Microsoft User Group Microsoft pulls Facebook […]

In this episode, Simon and Toni discuss Azure Files on-premises AD intergration going GA, recap the last week’s news that Toni had some insight on, and wade through a gazillion items related to Windows! They are also taking the covers off our new East Sweden Microsoft User Group! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes […]

In this episode, a.k.a “the physicist”, the trio discuss the new Config Manager technical preview, a new feature in PIM, virtualization finally playing nice and a huge update to a Power BI whitepaper. Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes: CfgMgr Technical Preview 2005 VMWare […]

In this episode, a.k.a “Simon’s Lament”, the trio talk about phones, ergonomics, Power BI and Data Lake, and the spring WVD update. Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes:

In this episode the trio talk about Windows Virtual Desktop updates, Microsoft Business Applications Summit going virtual (and free!) and staggering numbers for Teams! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes:

In this episode a.k.a “Most Valuable Perkele”, Alexander and Toni talk about teaching via Teams, Windows 10 updates, Toni’s new AMD workstation and news in Power BI! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes:

In this episode, a.k.a “trippy clippy”, the trio talk Azure under pressure, custom Teams backgrounds, Azure AD Premium P1 in M365 Business and copying visuals in Power BI. Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes: Custom backgrounds in Teams

In this episode, a.k.a “old, but relevant”, Alexander and Simon talk about working from home, training from home, look at free available training, news from ConfigMgr and Endpoint Manager, documenting with Jupyter notebooks and the read/write XMLA endpoint preview! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show […]

In this episode the trio talk about experiences working from home, I/O limitations on Azure virtual machines, news from Intune and how the internet copes with this time of COVID-19. Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes:

In this episode, a.k.a “cororant”, the trio talk COVID-19, Power BI Desktop March update, Powershell scripts to simplify your day, working from home and the need to question data! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes: Convert dataset to dataflow Power BI Desktop March update

In this episode, a.k.a “shopping spree in the Azure marketplace”, Simon and Toni talk ways of managing patching, gaming on Linux, news in InTune and precious little Power BI. Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes: Global Azure in Linköping

In this episode we talk about the why vs the how of technical conferences, the newly announced preview of clustered disks in Azure, Microsoft staying the leader in the Gartner magic quadrant for analytics and BI and some extremely interesting new features in Intune! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the […]

In part 1 of this blog series I outlined the gear we use to record the podcast. The second part was all about actually recording content. The third was a wall of text on post-processing. After getting back from Oslo and the Nordic Infrastructure Conference, it is now time to finish off the series with […]

  In part 1 of this blog series I outlined the gear we use to record the podcast. This part will focus on the techniques and settings we use to recording an episode. The gear Recording Post-processing Publication We share a OneNote file with ideas and information for every episode. We kind of screwed up […]

Matthew Roche pinged me on Twitter the other day to ask about the workflow and gear I use to record Knee-deep in Tech. After responding on Twitter I decided it was time to do a new round of “The Tech of Knee-Deep in Tech”. I’ll divide this into several blog posts due to the sheer […]

We’re back! Episode 102 is the first episode of the new year and the new decade. We talk about Windows 2008/R2 going end-of-support on the 14th (a.k.a the day we recorded the episode), as well as what the plan looks like for us going forward in 2020! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or […]

In this episode, known as “cold hangover”, the two somewhat under the weather hosts Alexander and Simon (Toni is out with a real cold!) discuss what’s new in the Power BI November update, new exciting features in Intune, speaking at ExpertsLive and hands-on with Simon’s new shiny Surface Pro X! Subscribe to us on Spotify, […]

In this seventh episode from Microsoft Ignite, the gang sit down with Kenny Lowe (@KennyLowe) to talk Azure Stack Hub and Azure Arc! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes:

In this fifth episode from Microsoft Ignite, the trio sit down with Matthias Haas, the CTO of Igel, to talk about ancient memories, thin clients and edge computing! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes:

In this third episode from Microsoft Ignite, the gang sit down with security legend Sami Laiho to talk Sami turning 40, security, azure blue penguins, Azure Arc! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes:

In this first episode of Microsoft Ignite, Toni and Alexander met up with Andy Syrewicze of Altaro software to talk about the first day of Microsoft Ignite! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes:

In this episode, Simon and Alexander met up at Microsoft TechDays in Stockholm and discussed the conference, our sessions, and what’s upcoming at Microsoft Ignite. Simon also managed to sneak some ConfigMgr stuff in here as well! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here:  Show notes:

In this hundredth(!) episode, Alexander, Simon and Toni sit down with Johan Dahlbom from Microsoft to talk about Azure Private Link. Other topics of the day are the Surface event, Power Platfom release wave 2 and the new Data Box Edge! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here: […]

In this episode the trio discuss technological debt, the new custom format strings in Power BI, Azure AD Proxy for Power BI mobile, AI whisky, Toni’s new blog post and a new approach for Windows update and upgrades! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here: Show notes: Power […]