Andrew Snodgrass

Andrew Snodgrass

Analyst

Andrew analyzes and writes about Microsoft's data management, business intelligence, and machine learning solutions, as well as aspects of licensing

Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Andrew was vice president of IT for a global Fortune 500 company, where he directed overall IT activities and strategy for the company‘s global operations, including work sharing and collaboration, application design and development, communications, data center operations, security, compliance, procurement, and vendor management. Andrew also started and sold an independent software firm specializing in disparate data integration, cleansing, and analysis.

Andrew received a B.B.A. in information systems from Boise State University and an M.B.A. from Colorado State University.

Latest Content by Andrew Snodgrass

In Brief

June 9, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass

SQL Server 2025 Shows Off Vector Search and Copilot in Public Preview SQL Server 2025, available in public preview, includes typical engine and security improvements, along with Azure-based data-sharing updates and a...

Analyst Report

June 9, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass

Surge Protection Stabilizes Power BI, Fabric Performance, With Limits Surge protection is an admin feature for Power BI and Fabric capacities that can help customers avoid the services’ automatic...

Sidebar

June 9, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass

How to Use Power BI and Fabric Surge Protection Using Power BI’s and Fabric’s surge protection feature requires an advanced knowledge of how the services calculate compute usage, trial-and-error...

Analyst Report

June 2, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass

Power BI Premium Migration Tool Eases the Required Move to Fabric An automated Power BI Premium migration tool can help customers migrate workloads to Fabric with less manual effort.

Blog

May 23, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass

Dynamics 365 ERP Licensing Moves to Security Roles: Cleanup Required Dynamics 365 Finance + Operations customers should spend time now cleaning up security roles assigned to their users before Microsoft...

Analyst Report

May 12, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass

Collaboration Services Roadmap 2025 – Stay with Safe Choices Roadmap and Darwin chart for Microsoft’s collection of collaboration services; highlighting safe destinations and items to avoid.

Analyst Report

May 5, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass

Microsoft Lists Fills the Gap Between Excel and SharePoint Lists Microsoft Lists tracks tabular data with more sharing capabilities and control than Excel workbooks and lower costs than more IT-intensive...

Roadmap

Updated: April 29, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass

Viva Engage Roadmap Roadmap for Viva Engage, a social connections module of the Viva suite that replaced Yammer.

Roadmap

Updated: April 28, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass

Dynamics 365 Sales Roadmap Dynamics 365 Sales provides sales professionals and teams with features supporting lead and opportunity management; product, price list, and order...

Roadmap

Updated: April 28, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass

Dynamics 365 Customer Service Roadmap Dynamics 365 Customer Service provides capabilities for customer support functions, such as routing enquiries, recording interactions, tracking cases, and hosting...