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Microsoft Data Podcast – Analytics, Fabric & Data Governance Episodes

Modern Microsoft architectures are increasingly data-driven, spanning analytics, reporting, automation, and AI workloads. Data Talk focuses on data platforms and governance within the Microsoft ecosystem, including Microsoft Fabric, analytics services, and enterprise data architectures.

Episodes cover topics such as data modeling, pipelines, governance models, security boundaries, and integration with Microsoft 365 and Azure. We explore how data flows across services, where governance breaks down, and why unmanaged growth creates long-term risk.

Data Talk emphasizes understanding data systems as operational platforms rather than isolated analytics tools. Discussions include identity and access models, compliance considerations, data residency, and the interaction between AI-driven services and enterprise data.

This category is intended for data architects, engineers, and IT leaders responsible for designing and governing Microsoft data platforms. If you need clarity on how Microsoft data services behave at scale, Data Talk provides grounded, experience-based insight.
Sept. 23, 2025

The Dataverse Migration Nobody Wants (But Needs)

This episode cuts through the confusion around Dataverse data migration and explains, in plain language, how to move data between environments without breaking your schema, losing your relationships, or waking up to a support queue full of duplicate records. You’ll hear why data migration has quiet…
Sept. 22, 2025

How Data Goblins Wreck Copilot For Everyone

This episode goes straight into the uncomfortable truth behind Microsoft Copilot: the same AI that accelerates your workflows can also expose your most sensitive data if you don’t govern it correctly. We unpack how Copilot for Microsoft 365 pulls information from across SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams,…
Sept. 20, 2025

The Power BI Gateway Horror Story No One Warned You About

Power BI Gateway is the secret weapon that makes it possible to bring secure, on-premises data into the cloud power of Microsoft Power BI without moving anything outside your firewall. In this episode, we break down how the on-premises data gateway works, why organizations rely on it, and how it se…
Sept. 18, 2025

Domains in Fabric: Easier Than It Looks? (Spoiler: No)

Microsoft Fabric domains are quickly becoming one of the most important pillars of governance and organization inside the Fabric ecosystem, and in this episode we break down exactly how they work and why they matter. You’ll learn how domains create logical groupings of workspaces and data assets, h…
Sept. 18, 2025

LINQ to SQL: Magic or Mayhem?

LINQ to SQL remains one of the most approachable ways to query and manipulate relational data in .NET, and in this episode we break down exactly how it works, why it’s so powerful, and how it simplifies database interaction compared to traditional SQL and ADO.NET patterns. You’ll learn how LINQ to …
Sept. 11, 2025

Microsoft Fabric Changes Everything for BI Pros

This episode explains how Microsoft Fabric can significantly elevate the work of Power BI professionals by unifying data engineering, governance, storage, and analytics into one platform. It shows how Fabric enhances existing Power BI workflows without forcing teams to redo their reports or models.…
Aug. 17, 2025

Fabric Dataflows Gen2: The Future of ETL in Microsoft Fabric

Fabric Dataflows Gen2 turns scattered Power Query/ADF jobs into a single, reusable ETL asset that feeds Lakehouse, Warehouse, and Power BI—backed by separate, elastic compute and managed staging. Translation: faster refreshes, zero zombie temp tables, consistent logic everywhere, and Git-native col…
Aug. 16, 2025

Dynamics 365 Embedded Analytics with Fabric & Power BI

Stop exporting Dynamics 365 data to Excel. Connect Dataverse to Microsoft Fabric, build an analytics model once, and embed Power BI directly inside Dynamics 365 (CRM/ERP) screens. With live, role-aware metrics (RLS), sales and ops teams act on fresh data without tab-switching, stale snapshots, or v…
Aug. 16, 2025

Fabric Lakehouse Governance & Data Lineage

Stop guessing where your data went. In Microsoft Fabric, automatic lineage, workspace-based permissions, and Purview’s enterprise catalog turn opaque pipelines into auditable, end-to-end flows—from ingestion to transformation to the report. Fabric captures every hop (Data Factory, Lakehouse, notebo…
Aug. 15, 2025

Fabric Data Activator for Real-Time AI Insights

Stop waiting on dashboards. Fabric Data Activator turns live signals into instant actions—pausing bad pipelines, placing purchase orders, opening D365 work orders, or triggering API calls the moment thresholds hit. Because it’s native to Microsoft Fabric, it listens to streams and models from Power…
Aug. 14, 2025

Using Microsoft Fabric Notebooks for AI Model Training

Stop torturing your laptop. Train models where the data lives. With Microsoft Fabric notebooks running on Spark next to your Lakehouse, you skip CSV exports, move terabytes at query speed, and iterate in Python or R without memory crashes. Push transforms to the data, engineer features at scale, mo…
Aug. 14, 2025

Dataverse Deep Dive: Designing Scalable Data Models

Dataverse “slowness” is often schema, not size. Fix table bloat, simplify relationships, and add the right indexes to turn crawling forms and timing-out flows into crisp responses. Design for performance from day one—balance normalization, limit cascades, and index what you filter on.
Aug. 13, 2025

Integrating Dynamics 365 Sales Data into Microsoft Teams

Stop context-switching. Embed Dynamics 365 Sales directly into Microsoft Teams so reps update opportunities, trigger approvals, and log notes where they already work. Layer Power Automate and Adaptive Cards to turn chats into actions (create/update/approve) and keep CRM as the single source of trut…
Aug. 12, 2025

Building Reusable Semantic Models with Microsoft Fabric

Most Power BI environments start fast and stall under copy-paste sprawl: duplicated PBIX files, conflicting measures, and “spreadmart” dashboards that nobody fully trusts. The fix isn’t another naming convention—it’s a model-first architecture. Microsoft Fabric elevates the semantic model to an ent…
Aug. 12, 2025

Optimizing Lakehouse Performance in Microsoft Fabric

When Fabric queries crawl and cloud costs spike, the fix usually isn’t more compute—it’s better Lakehouse design. This episode shows how three practical levers deliver immediate wins. First, partitioning: stop defaulting to “date” and align keys to real filter patterns to avoid wide scans or metada…
Aug. 10, 2025

Securing Data Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric pipelines often feel “secure by default,” but silent data exposure usually comes from misconfigured permissions, hardcoded secrets, and overbroad workspace roles. This episode shows how to harden end-to-end pipelines with managed identities (kill passwords), Azure Key Vault (centra…
Aug. 10, 2025

Automated Testing for Power Apps and Dataverse

Low-code does not mean low risk. Power Apps and Dataverse sit at the center of many business-critical processes, so skipped testing leads to silent data loss, broken approvals, and security leaks. This episode shows how to build a real testing strategy for the Power Platform: automate end-to-end sc…
Aug. 10, 2025

Managing Git Integration with Microsoft Fabric Notebooks

Microsoft Fabric’s Git integration isn’t a backup—it’s the backbone of safe, scalable collaboration on notebooks, pipelines, and models. This guide explains why merge chaos happens, what actually syncs to Git (code/metadata) vs. what doesn’t (Lakehouse data), and the one switch that saves teams: ad…
Aug. 9, 2025

Fabric Notebooks for Data Transformation and ML

Stop wrestling Power BI with endless clicks. Microsoft Fabric Notebooks let you prep, model, and feature-engineer data end-to-end—in Python or R—right inside your Lakehouse with Spark scale and Git governance. This guide shows a proven workflow: ingest to Bronze, clean and join to Silver, feature-e…
Aug. 8, 2025

Extending Microsoft Fabric with Custom APIs and Power BI Models

Fabric’s UI is great for quick wins—but it hits limits with niche data sources, complex business logic, and real-time automation. The way through is building custom API integrations (secure, least-privilege, monitored) and surfacing them with Power BI semantic models (single source of truth, govern…
Aug. 8, 2025

Building Customer Portals with Power Pages + Dataverse

Stop emailing Dataverse exports. Build a branded, secure, customer-ready portal with Power Pages that shows the right records to the right people—nothing more. This guide gives you a step-by-step build, least-privilege web roles/table permissions, and a go-live checklist (auth, data scope, branding…
Aug. 8, 2025

Building Machine Learning Models in Microsoft Fabric

Ship ML faster on Microsoft Fabric. This guide shows how to go from Lakehouse data to production models—without the spreadsheet chaos. You’ll get a practical blueprint for curated data layers, reproducible notebooks, MLflow tracking, governed model registry, and one-click batch/real-time serving. I…
Aug. 7, 2025

Using Copilot in Microsoft Fabric to Build Data Models

This episode breaks down where Microsoft Copilot truly speeds up data work in Microsoft Fabric—and where you still need a human in the loop. You’ll see how Copilot catches schema issues at ingestion, suggests fixes (naming, types, dates, partitions) before pipelines break, and then accelerates tran…
Aug. 6, 2025

Implementing Row-Level Security in Power BI with Fabric

This episode shows why Row-Level Security (RLS) in Power BI isn’t a checkbox—it’s a living system. We unpack the parts that actually decide who sees what: model relationships, role design, DAX filters (static vs dynamic), Azure AD group assignments, and the identity shifts that happen when you publ…