It’s 5AM in Orlando, and I can’t sleep – so I thought I’d share out some information on how things are going in the Hands-On Labs at the show. (BTW – show life is very strange.  I came back to the hotel about 7PM exhausted, fell asleep, and work up about 3AM ready to go.  Unfortunately, none of you were at the Convention Center about then.)

We collect reams and reams of information about customer experiences, satisfaction, lab quality, and loads of other topics at the show.  I’ll share some in the next few blog entries.  Right now the Excel spreadsheet that I’m looking at is over 3.2MB with the raw data.  I wish somebody made a great tool that would let me analyze this data. <g>

Here are the top 25 labs at the show.  (I removed any lab that has less than 10 customer evals.)

Rank

Code

Title Of Lab

Customer

Rating (1-9

MGT08

Managing Group Policy Using Group Policy Management Console (GPMC)

8.88

PRT02

Administering and Managing Your Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

8.33

MGT11

Deploying SMS 2003 in an Active Directory Environment

8.13

MSG09

Migrating from Exchange Server 5.5/Windows NT 4 Server to Exchange Server 2003/Windows Server 2003 (Part 3)

8.13

SEC13

Publishing Exchange Server with ISA Server 2004

8.05

MBL04

Incorporating COM Objects into Your .NET Compact Framework Application

7.98

SEC05

Securing a Perimeter Network with ISA Server 2004

7.93

CSI12

Commerce Server 2006: Upgrading to Commerce Server 2006

7.79

DAT06

Using Web Services with SQL Server 2005

7.74

MSG07

Migrating from Exchange Server 5.5/Windows NT 4 Server to Exchange Server 2003/Windows Server 2003 (Part 1)

7.73

BAP05

Integrating to Microsoft Business Solutions: Great Plains with Microsoft .NET and XML

7.63

MSG10

Troubleshooting Exchange Server 2003 Mail Flow

7.63

CLI10

Building XML-based Solutions with Microsoft Office Word, Excel and Access 2003

7.62

DBA03

T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2005

7.62

ARC07

Understanding, Designing and Refactoring Code Using the New Class Designer Tool in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

7.61

CLI08

Building Solutions Using Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003

7.61

DAT03

SQL Server 2005 Service Broker

7.6

BIN03

Data Mining with SQL Server 2005

7.59

DAT04

Using the SQLCLR in SQL Server 2005

7.59

BIN06

SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

7.58

SEC03

Securing Internet Information Services (IIS) and Outlook Web Access (OWA)

7.58

SEC14

Creating VPN Connections with ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition

7.58

ARC01

Using the Distributed System Designers to Visually Design and Validate Service-Oriented Systems in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

7.56

SEC15

Using Load Balancing (NLB, CARP) with ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition

7.56

MSG03

Controlling Junk E-mail with Exchange Server 2003 Using the Intelligent Message Filter and Outlook Junk E-mail Options

7.55