Lab Provider Overview for Microsoft Certified Trainers

If you are a newly minted Microsoft Certified Trainer, this post serves as an essential guide to understanding the different lab providers available for all Microsoft Official Courses (MOC). Lab providers offer a dedicated environment for training students. This post provides an overview of the three lab providers that deliver MOC labs on behalf of Microsoft and highlights what each provider brings to the table.

• The first provider, Labs on Demand, appears to be a favourite of many learning providers. Its labs have various utility tools to monitor students' labs, a virtual machine, snapshots for restoring labs to previous states, and quick access to a virtual keyboard.
• The second provider, Xtreme Labs, offers an easy and quick start with no need to navigate through several pages to access courses. However, lab machines do not have the latest browser versions, and information saved on each particular lab is lost as users move ahead into the course.
• Finally, go deploy is one of the newest and most promising providers that offer an intuitive and fluid lab experience that runs in the current browser tab.

It's essential to be familiar with each lab provider as an MCT, and the post emphasizes the typical issues and challenges encountered when using each lab provider. The post also highlights a workaround for the problem that arises when students paste in code snippets from lab instructions in IDEs, causing the code to mess up by adding redundant brackets, curly braces, and other subtle characters that render the labs problematic. The post serves as an excellent resource for budding and seasoned MCT trainers alike.

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