Lab guides
Labs tell you what to type.
They rarely show you what you’re building.
A hands-on lab is a wall of numbered instructions. You follow them, they work — and you still finish without a clear picture of what you made, or why. These guides add that picture: one screen per idea, one panel per task.
1What am I building?
The finished thing is on screen from the start, greyed out. Every task lights up one more piece of it.
2What will I be able to do?
Each task closes with the capability it earns you — not a summary of the steps you just typed.
3How far am I?
Every task is a button. You can see which are core, which are optional, and jump straight to the one you care about.
Three guides so far
Each one pairs with a real Microsoft Learn exerciseBuild and extend AI agents
Ground an agent in the Microsoft Foundry portal, extend it with a remote MCP server, then call it from your own client app — and finally host your own code in Foundry.
Microsoft Foundry · Python · MCP 2 core tasks · ~35 min 4 optional · ~2 h 25 m total 6 steps Open the guide AI-3025 For everyone
Explore Microsoft Copilot
Take one page of notes and turn it into a business: research it in Word, draft the plan, chart the numbers in Excel, build the deck in PowerPoint, and book the funding meeting in Outlook.
No code at all 5 core tasks · ~40 min + open challenge 5 languages · narrated Open the guide PL-7008 For makers
Build agents with Copilot Studio
Five labs: create agents from a template and from a sentence, ground them in files, websites and Dataverse, force a flow with topics, act through workflows — then build the same kind of agent again in the new instruction-driven experience.
Copilot Studio · Dataverse · Power Automate 5 labs · ~4 h 19 exercises Classic + new experience Open the guide MS-4018 For everyone
Draft, analyze and present with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Five labs across five apps: prepare an interview in Copilot Chat, build an executive deck in PowerPoint, draft and restructure a report in Word, run a launch in Teams, then chart and forecast a year of sales in Excel.
No code at all Setup + 5 labs 25 exercises English Open the guide
