Guide for choosing between Azure Lab Services and Windows Virtual Desktop for your institution
Azure Lab Services and Windows Virtual Desktop are two separate product offerings that make it easy for educational institutions to set up and manage cloud hosted virtual machines (VMs) for student usage. The goal of this guide is to help both IT administrators and educators understand the differences between these two offerings and the scenarios each offering is best suited for. Before we dive into the differences, let’s first get an overview.Azure Lab Services Enable remote hands-on learning – story from DeVry Univeristy
Create a lab of preconfigured virtual machines Azure Lab Services are Easily set up and provide on-demand access to preconfigured virtual machines (VMs) to support your scenarios. Teach a class, train professionals, run a hackathon or a hands-on lab, and more. Simply define your needs and the service will roll the lab out to your audience. Users access all their lab VMs from a single place.
Jupyter Experiences on Microsoft Azure
The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, data visualization, machine learning, and much moreConnecting to your Azure Lab Environments for MacOS Devices
Many Institutions are users of Azure Lab Services but many user of MAC OS can’t connect on their own machine, this probably is related to the Fact that .rdp files are not default associated with MAC OS. The Microsoft Remote Desktop 10 app for Mac OS associates rdp files allow student and academics to easily connect to Azure Lab Services.
University of Cagliari and Azure Lab Services for Class based Virtual Machine
Azure Lab Serviceshttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/lab-servicesprovides secure, sharable labs in the cloud for classroom, trial, development and testing, and other scenarios. Build your Windows or Linux virtual cloudlabon Windows or Linux—with a fast and flexible setup.
