Knee-deep in Tech
256 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingKnee-Deep In Tech is a bi-weekly(-ish) podcast covering IT and technology, focusing on the Microsoft stack. We are three MVPs and Microsoft Certified Trainers with between us over 35 years of IT infrastructure experience.
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Episodes
Episode 261
April 11, 2024 09:00 - 35 minutes - 33.2 MBIn this first episode following Mad March™, the trio tackle the deluge of news not only from Fabric Community Conference, but also from Intune, CosmosDB, the new Surface devices and much more! Show notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 260
April 04, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBIn this episode recorded in front of a live audience at SQL Bits 2024 in Farnborough, the United Kingdom, Alexander, Simon and stand-in host Reitse Eskens discuss development frameworks (Agile, SCRUM, etc.) and try to figure out if they are a help or a hindrance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 259
March 14, 2024 10:00 - 35 minutes - 31.5 MBIn this episode the trio dives into the inbox and discuss some of the great listener feedback received lately. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 258
March 07, 2024 10:00 - 35 minutes - 31.3 MBIn this episode, the trio discuss that proper security in Microsoft Fabric is currently tied to the size of your wallet, news from Microsoft Defender, updates with Azure storage and Azure Kubernetes Service and new capabilities with Dev Box! Show notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 257
February 29, 2024 10:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBIn this episode, Simon and Alexander discuss the deluge of news from Power BI and Fabric, look at what is new in Microsoft Intune and what is happening to EUC assets from VMWare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 256
February 22, 2024 10:00 - 33 minutes - 29.4 MBIn this high-quality episode, Heini hosts a discussion on the topic of quality. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 255
February 15, 2024 10:00 - 32 minutes - 28.5 MBIn this episode the trio cover several blog post on Fabric and Synapse, several security updates in Azure as well as networking news! Show notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 254
February 08, 2024 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBIn this episode, the trio have a chat about Power BI, training and running your own company with Eugene Meidinger! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 253
February 01, 2024 10:00 - 32 minutes - 28.3 MBIn this episode the trio cover changes to certifications, the TietoEvry cyber incident, Fabric Community Conference and Spark concurrency! Link to show notes: https://www.kneedeepintech.com/posts/podcast-episode-253/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 252
January 25, 2024 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30 MBIn this episode, Simon host a focus episode on the topic of preparedness - what to do if (when) you are a victim of a cyberattack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 251
January 19, 2024 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30 MBIn this episode, Alexander and Simon tackle the relative calm that is the news cycle right after the holidays. They look at new certifications, the chaos following the Broadcom takeover of VmWare, extensions to the EU data boundary, some Windows 365 news and a physical copilot button! Show notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 250
January 11, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes - 29.7 MBIn this math, giraffe and circle-filled first episode of the year, the trio has a chat with Björn Andersson on the topic of technical debt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 249
December 21, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutes - 31.6 MBIn this Christmas Special / Year in Review, the trio talk about 2023, what has impacted work, notable news, and what is in store for 2024! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 248
December 14, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes - 30 MBIn this episode, the trio is joined by Björn Andersson and talk Power BI improvements, the Synapse connectivity series, Microsoft Secure Service Edge, vNet injection/Private Endpoints and more! Show notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 247
December 07, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes - 30.3 MBIn response to a listener email asking for advice on conferences, the trio discuss conferences, experiences and give tips around going to conferences around the world! Show notes: https://www.kneedeepintech.com/posts/podcast-episode-247/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 246
November 30, 2023 10:00 - 39 minutes - 35.6 MBIn this episode, the trio try to condense the news from PASS Summit and Microsoft Ignite to a 30-ish minute long conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 245
November 16, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutes - 25.5 MBIn this focus episode, Alexander and Heini discuss the concept of technical debt - what it is, what causes it, if it is always bad, and what can be done about it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 244
November 09, 2023 10:00 - 28 minutes - 24.8 MBAs Simon is busy disrupting the IT systems of European airlines, Alexander and Heini cover news from Power BI and Fabric, some new functionality in App Services, as well as updates to Azure Kubernetes Services! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 243
November 02, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28.8 MBIn this focus episode, Simon and Heini discuss the concept of user experience - what it is, what is an end user, what is a user, and - who needs to care about the user experience? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 242
October 26, 2023 09:00 - 28 minutes - 26.8 MBIn this episode, Simon and Heini are discussing a smattering of smaller news items from Azure, Windows 11, Microsoft Intune and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 241
October 19, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBIn this episode, recorded in front of a live audience at DataMinds 2023 in Mechelen, Belgium, the trio discuss personal branding and reputation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 240
October 12, 2023 08:55 - 44 minutes - 41.3 MBThis episode was recorded in front of a live audience at Data Saturday Holland in Utrecht. The audience was part of the conversation around the topic of data and data platform security! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 239
October 06, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes - 25.8 MBIn this episode, Alexander and Simon discuss the widespread practice of beta testing with paying customers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 238
September 28, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes - 27.6 MBIn this episode, Simon and Alexander discuss news from Power BI and Fabric, the new Copilot for Windows 11, and the new, shiny Surface hardware! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 237
September 21, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes - 29.3 MBIn this episode, recorded on the Power BI Cruise back in May, Alexander have a chat with Lonneke Opsteegh, a Dutch data viz expert, on matters of data, data literacy and data visualization! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 236
September 14, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.1 MBIn this episode, Simon and Heini discuss what is actually included in Microsoft Purview, news in Windows Autopatch and Microsoft 365, have opinions on Microsoft Teams, as well as dig up some news from Azure Containers, Azure Front Door and Azure Firewall. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 235
September 07, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes - 30.2 MBIn this focus episode, the trio discuss the shifting IT job market, the impact and necessity of personal branding and what happens to perception of we change one word. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 234
August 31, 2023 13:00 - 26 minutes - 24 MBIn this episode the trio discuss Python in Excel, several things going GA in Microsoft Intune, the new open book exam experience, Azure Front Door with storage and Azure Container Apps updates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 233
August 24, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes - 28.4 MBIn this focus episode signed Simon, the trio discuss difficult choices in the community. The conversation touches on privilege, taking a stand and using your platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 232
August 17, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes - 29.4 MBIn this first episode back from (a horrible) vacation, the trio talk about news from the Fabric blog, the wonderful name change for Microsoft Entra, news from Intune, something called Azure Boost, the general availability of the cross-region load balancer offering and new security and compliance options for Azure Databricks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 231
June 22, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 34.1 MBIn this episode the trio cover the Power BI June update, curiosities with high-level architecture in M365, confuse themselves with licensing for Defender for Endpoint, news with Windows 11, developments with Azure Load Testing, look at Azure Status History and talk about what the summer holds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 230
June 15, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes - 30.8 MBIn this focus episode, Alexander and Heini discuss the newly released Microsoft Fabric. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 229
June 08, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes - 28.2 MBIn this episode, Heini and Alexander sift through some of the news that are still floating around after the chaos that was Microsoft Build. Heini takes a look at Azure API Management updates, new features with Event Hubs, and tnew capabilities and a new pricing structure for Stream Analytics, and Alexander, true to form, goes bananas over the Power BI May Update, as well as discuss Microsoft Fabric. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 228
June 01, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBIn this second of two Microsoft Build specials, the trio talk about the news from Microsoft Build that was NOT data related. Covered are features like Copilot all the things, the Dev Home offering, a bunch of container news, as well as GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 227
May 25, 2023 09:00 - 30 minutes - 26.7 MBIn this first of two Microsoft Build specials, the trio talk about the data related news from Microsoft Build. Covered are features like Microsoft Fabric, Copilot in Power BI, the OneLake, and the git integration with Power BI Desktop! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 226
May 18, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 37.6 MBIn this episode, recorded on the Power BI Cruise, Alexander talks to Jeroen ter Heerdt, a product manager on the Power BI product! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 225
May 12, 2023 07:05 - 32 minutes - 27.5 MBIn this news episode, the trio cover news from Microsoft and Windows 365, the new OneDrive experience, adding Power BI to Jupyter notebooks, editing Power BI models in the service, finding a bug in Synapse Spark, Azure Cold Storage, Databricks Serverless SQL and Azure container news! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 224
May 04, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBIn this focus episode, Heini talk to Simon about Agile and Scrum. They both have opinions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 223
April 27, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBIn this episode, Heini and Simon talk about new Azure App Service plans, AKS updates, new offerings with Azure Container Apps, retiring Azure services, SSO for Azure AD on iOS/macOS, what's new in Intune and Windows LAPS in preview. Oh, and the captain was Danish. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 222
April 20, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBIn this focus episode, Simon hosts a discussion on Microsoft Intune Suite - what it is, who it is for, and where it fits into the partner ecosystem. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 221
April 13, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBIn this episode with the new 30+30 format, the trio are all about news. Covered in this episode is Windows 365 Frontline, ConfigMgr, Power BI TMDL preview, Deployment Pipelines improvements, essential Spark tips for data engineering, DDoS protection improvements and the private application gateway v2. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 220
April 06, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 30.7 MBIn this episode, Alexander have a conversation on diversity, equality, inclusion and belonging with Cecilia Judmann of Redgate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 219
March 30, 2023 09:00 - 48 minutes - 43.9 MBIn this episode, the trio talk Power BI updates, the new Tabular Model Definintion Language, the newly announced Data API Builder, updates from Intune, a multitude of copilots and bring back the discussion on architecture documentation! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 218
March 23, 2023 10:10 - 37 minutes - 31.1 MBIn this episode, recorded in front of a live audience at SQL Bits 2023, Alexander and Heini chat with members of the audience about SQL Bits, community and why they'd attend a live podcast recording. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 217
February 16, 2023 10:10 - 38 minutes - 27.7 MBIn this episode, the trio talk to Annette Allen of SQLBits! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 216
February 02, 2023 10:10 - 40 minutes - 35.7 MBIn this episode, Alexander and Heini go through a bunch of Power BI and Azure news, and have a chat about last mile analytics and the fallacies of data driven analytics. Listen to the episode to get a 15% discount code for SQLBits! https://sqlbits.swoogo.com/2023/knee-deep-in-tech Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 215
January 19, 2023 10:15 - 46 minutes - 41.4 MBIn this first episode of 2023, the trio sift through the news, covering Outlook roaming signatures, the challenges facing Tableau, news from Azure Synapse and Power BI, changes to CosmosDB naming and what's new in Windows Autopatch. They also dive into a discussion about representing or not on social media. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 214
December 22, 2022 10:15 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBIn this Christmas Special, the trio chat about the last year, have some opinions and predict what might come next year! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 213
December 08, 2022 10:15 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBIn this episode, the trio wades through several exciting pieces of news on Defender for Endpoint, Intune, Power BI, Azure Kubernetes Services, Container Apps and Synapse Analytics - as well as discuss how to choose which SQL Server offering in Azure is the best for a given scenario. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 212
December 01, 2022 10:15 - 36 minutes - 35.2 MBIn this episode recorded after the return from the Norwegian CUGTech cruise Simon and Kjetil Emersjø talk about all things Citrix. They cover the stormy partnership between Microsoft and Citrix, how to build a lasting community and why you should consider running Citrix on Azure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.