This is a supplement guide to ‘Microsoft Cloud Workshop - AI Developers-Emerging’, to be used when you are delivering a hands-on-lab session using Cloud Labs AI platform from Spektra Systems. If you have any questions, please reach out to cloudlabs-support@spektrasystems.com
To make it easier for you to work on the labs, you are provided with pre-provisioned Azure environment. You will receive sign-up link for the lab environment from your instructor.
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Register for the lab environment by providing your information and clicking on Submit button.
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On the next page, click the Launch Lab button.
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Wait for the lab environment to be provisioned. Sometimes this can take upto 10 minutes. Once environment provisioning is complete, you will receive details in email as well as in the browser.
Note: Lab environment is enabled only for specific duration or workshop end time - whichever is earlier. At the end of the allowed time, environment will be self-destructed. Also, for multi-day workshops, all virtual machines will be shutdown at 7 PM local time and start at 8AM local time.
- Open a browser instance in InPrivate / incognito mode and navigate to https://portal.azure.com
- Login to the portal using Azure Credentials issued for your environment.
- Once you are logged in to the portal, navigate to Resource Groups.
- Note that you have access to 1 resource group
Open a browser instance in private or incognito mode and login to Microsoft Azure Portal using the credentials provided.
Note: You might have an existing Azure Credential. For the pre-provisioned environment, new Microsoft Azure environment is provisioned and new AAD user is created for you. To prevent conflict with your existing accounts, it is advised to use In Private mode of IE / IE Edge or Incognito mode of Chrome browser.
You're provided one Data Science Virtual Machine as your lab vm. You should be able to RDP(remote desktop) into VM with credentials available on lab details page.
- You'd have one resource groups already provisioned for you, Please use this resource group to create resources throughout the lab.
- Navigate to the resource group and view the already existing resources such as :
- virtual machine,OS Disk,Public IP etc.
- Cosmos DB
- Computer Vision API (Cognitive service)
If you require any help during the workshop, please reach out to the instructor / proctors. Instructors / proctors might escalate the issue to remote support team, at that time, please pass on your AAD User ID (aad_user_xyz), so that it is easier to look up your environment.