Lab Services
Azure Lab Services is a service that enables you to easily set up and provide on-demand access to various systems and software for any workload: teaching a class, setting up a development or test environment, or running trials with customers. Manage and scale your group’s resources in lab environments, while minimizing waste and controlling cost. Choose between the two lab types, classroom lab or devtest lab, for an experience that is tailored to your scenario.
Visit the Azure Lab Services page to learn more.
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38 votes
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Provide the ability to customise the Classroom Labs user Portal
It would be great to be able to customise the User portal for the Classroom labs, maybe per classroom lab basis, where we can establish a nice workshop title banner, do custom branding etc.
17 votesThank you for your suggestion. We added this to our feature backlog.
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14 votes
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10 votes
Can you please elaborate on this scenario? If we provide an option to change the sku size (ex. change small to medium/large or vice versa), would that suffice?
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Make template VM directly accessible in Azure portal
The template VM should be accessible like a regular VM via the Azure Portal. I got into a situation after configuring the firewall where the RDP port was blocked and could no longer access it. Support could not resolve it either. This would alleviate that by allowing normal Azure recovery methods.
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Give Warning to Users About Shutdown
Currently, when a shutdown is initiated in the schedule, it force quits all programs and shuts down the machine without any notice to the user. This abrupt of a shutdown could result in a loss of work if the user is active at the time of the scheduled shutdown. Please provide an option when scheduling a shutdown to give notice to the user (see attached for an example). This can be achieved with the simple command: shutdown /s /t 300
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Assign multiple VMs to a student with their own vnet so they can create a network
We have an in house lab experience where we can assign multiple windows/Linux VMs to students, these all come with a public IP and part of a Vnet so they can create their own network and test client/server applications between them
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'My Labs' Dashboard cards should display more information
The dashboard cards in labs only contains minimum information on the e.g.
LAB-TITLE
lab description
Max virtual machine count: 52
Quota per user: 0 hours (Schedule only)it does not even list the Lab Creator anywhere!
it really needs to be better especially when end users have multiple labs from different creators, schedules etc.It would be nice if the cards in the dashboard listed:
The Lab creator - fetched from Graph with user image and mail address.
The name of image in use, possibly an image logo
The actual schedule (if configured)
custom support linkThe count of registered…
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Provide the ability to add classroom resources for each lab
It would be great to have the ability to add some more helpful assets to the classroom lab, like a list of e-book codes (csv) that can be redeemed by each user as he/she claims each VM. Also we should be able to upload a Lab guide, some reference links etc., for use by the students during the class.
4 votesThank you for your suggestion. We already have this feature in our feature backlog.
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Be able to download list of users
I really like the new classroom labs. One feature I would like is to be able to not only upload a list of users but also be able to download the list of users after a class have completed.
4 votesThanks for your suggestion. We added this feature to our backlog and will prioritize this feature appropriately.
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Windows Server 2019
When can we expect to see Windows Server 2019 images available?
4 votes -
Allow ability to Rename labs
Once you deploy a lab there is no way to change the name of the lab under "My Labs" at https://labs.azure.com. You can drill into the lab and change the title but not this name.
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Speed up user lab VM reset by assigning an unassigned VM from the pool
When you reset a VM assigned to a user, it will delete the existing VM, create a new VM and then assign it to the user.
If there are unassigned VMs in the pool, please assign one of these to the user so that they can get back on immediately. There should be no need to wait for an additional VM to be added into the pool before it is assigned to a user.
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Show Which Labs Have an Active User Logged In
It would be useful for the virtual machine list to show which machine has a user actively logged in so as administrators/instructors we can know which machines can be stopped without interfering with a student's work.
3 votes -
Make it more affordable for nonprofits
Nonprofits can't afford to pay $0.20/hour to run VMs for a library or classroom. For 10 machines to be running and used during lab hours, that's $1-2K/week. It's just way outside of their budgets.
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Enable / Disable VM sizes
Ability to hide VM sizes from selection menu like you can enable/disble certain images from view.
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Easy switch from admin-view to vm-view
When I login to Lab Services, I'm automatically forwarded to the teacher-dashboard. As I'm a participant in some courses, I would like to see an option to switch to the student portal easily, instead of typing https://labs.azure.com/virtualmachines myself.
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Display the currency of the estimated cost for admin view
A single organization has multiple admin for the classroom labs. Not all admin are familiar with Azure. As a general admin, they dont have sense on the default currency.
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Open more ports for web server/programming/design related classes
My partner is meeting many customers in education sectors, and many of them ask if Lab Services can open some ports more than those of RDP and SSH.
My partner empathized that this is necessary in case of educational organizations that are teaching web server, web programming, and web design.
Can you consider this if you think it does not breach the security of the service?
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Please add Classroom Labs to MAG
We have DoD customers who train DoD members world wide from E-1 to GS15, and would greatly benefit from this service as they migrate from on-prem to Azure with Classroom Labs.
2 votes
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