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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Overview 'My virtual machines' has a scrollbar for both column values and column titles
In the overview tab, 'My virtual machines' has a scroll bar for both the columns titles and column values.
I believe this wasn't intended and isn't often seen. Typically they move together so you can more easily associate values with titles/labels.
1 voteOn the overview blade, there is a scroll bar only to scroll down to view a list of VMs. Can you please elaborate on the issue you are experiencing?
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Support auto shutdown by resource group
Support auto shutdown by resource group instead of setting it per VM. I hope we can do it per RG to speed up and streamline.
1 voteThanks for the feedback. For those who would like to see this sooner, please vote for it.
Currently, you can create a lab and set it such that all lab VMs are in a single RG. This will ensure all lab settings apply to that RG. -
I'd like to be able to extend/add disks in Labs Services (Not DevLabs)l
I'd like to be able to extend/add disks in Labs Services (Not DevLabs)
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There is no obvious option for starting VMs automatically at a set time each day, yet there is an option for automatically stopping them.
There is no obvious option for starting VMs automatically at a set time each day, yet there is an option for automatically stopping them.
I clicked on the feedback link on the automatic shut down page for a VM, on the Azure portal to get to this page. I don't know why I was sent to a "lab services" page. It seems this feedback link sends users to the wrong place.
1 voteYou have reached the right forum. We recently renamed the forum to lab services, however you can find DevTest Labs category on the right hand side pane.
For the feedback, can you please share what you mean by obvious?
In Labs, you have an option to set auto shutdown for your VM for a specific time of the day everyday.
For auto start, you can opt in to the lab auto start schedule and the setting of the schedule is taken care of for you by your lab owner.Would you like the ability to set a time yourself? If so, can you help understand the scenario for the same?
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Don't send DevTestLabs shutdown notifications for production VM's
We are receiving notifications with a subject line of "Alert—Auto-shutdown of virtual machine <machine name> in 30 minutes.
The VM in question is, I am assured by our infrastructure team, in a production resource group, in a production subscription, with a production SLA.
It does have an automatic shutdown configured by some mechanism, but I do not know the mechanism.
Notifications from microsoft should not be stating that this is a notification from DevTest labs, since the VM is not in a DevTest Lab according to the infrastructure team.
1 voteThe auto shutdown for Azure Compute VMs can be disabled and is not something that needs to be enforced on the machine.
If you are the owner of the VM and using it for a production scenario, you should be able to opt out of the shutdown schedule to ensure your VM will keep running. Do you own the VM you are talking about?The shutdown mechanism is provided by the DTL team, however the message should not say DevTest Labs unless the VM is in a lab. Can you confirm if your VM is in fact outside of a lab?
If you are using a DTL VM, it is meant to be used for Dev and Test scenarios only and shutdown can be set at lab level by your lab owner and at lab VM level depending on the level of control you have on setting DTL VM level…
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Time Format for Auto-Shutdown on Portal
The format or way of selecting time on the Portal needs to be improved.
E.g.
allow 24hr clock option
schedule up and down times across a given week start/stop
(date selection covered in a different posted idea)1 voteThanks for your feedback.
For those who would like to see this earlier, please vote for it.
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Allow DevTest Lab owners to connect to read-only shared image galleries
Currently a DevTest Lab owner needs to have contributor level access to a shared image gallery in order to have it listed as available for connection to the lab. This may have been with the thought that a lab owner would create the lab's images, but in many cases someone else will provide standard images. Allow galleries to appear for connection to the lab if the lab owner has Reader access to the gallery.
1 vote0 comments · DevTest Labs - Gallery Images, Customer Images, Formulas · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →Thanks for your feedback. We have added this to our backlog.
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Support auto-shutdown that does a deallocate as well
Auto-shutdown is great, but I'd like it to deallocate as well, so I don't get charged. That's my primary reason for wanting auto-shutdown, so I don't get charged for a playground VM twiddling its thumbs overnight.
1 voteAuto shutdown does deallocate VMs today.
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allow multi-system configuration in Azure Lab Services
It would be great to have a few machines deployed for each user so that they could have a complete environment with multiple services (DC, SystemCenter, SQL, Desktop, etc).
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Setting to automatically stop an automation runbook if it runs for more than 'x' minutes
Setting to automatically stop an automation runbook if it runs for more than 'x' minutes.
1 voteThis feedback forum is specifically for DevTest Labs. Can you please elaborate how your request related with DTL?
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The virtual machine shuts randomly and sucks... not stable at all
You really have to take a look to virtual machines on azure... not reliable at all. Machine shuts down randomly with no reason and when reboot, the port 80 will not be accessible for a while before restart working...
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autoshutdown manual default value
Oftentimes admin has same single or few needs of values for autoshutdown TZ and hour.
Would be nice to have be able to set default value in webUI (or use saved user profiles if you plan to add more flexibility and choices to that option)1 voteThanks for your feedback.
Can you please describe your scenario?
Currently, the lab schedule applies as a default schedule for all lab VMs and lab owner can also configure how lab users can set schedules on their VMs through the shutdown schedule policy. -
Ability to directly change VM ownership
Please add a direct way to change ownership of DevTest Lab VMs. The only supported way for now is unclaiming it first, then claiming it by another user. It's possible for other users to intercept VMs in unclaimed state.
We need this feature because we automate creating VMs in DevTest Labs shared by users using service principal. In the final step of the autonation, we have to change the ownership from the service principal to a designated user.
1 voteThanks for your feedback.
We prioritize features based on user votes. For those who would like to see this feature sooner, please vote for it.
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Lab/user policy to deny claiming/unclaiming VMs
Please add the ability to completely disable claimable VMs in DevTest Labs. The feature is abused to generate tons of unclaimed VMs in the lab under VMs-per-user policy.
1 voteThanks for your feedback.
You can create a custom role in DTL where you can assign lab users custom permissions.
One such permission could be to disable the unclaim option for them.Here is a doc on that: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/devtest-lab-grant-user-permissions-to-specific-lab-policies
Does this help?
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Ability to specify a time to send email notification to "n" time before the shutdown
Send an email to ___ minutes before the auto shut down
1 voteThanks for your feedback. We do have this feature in our backlog with no timeline unfortunately.
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Have an option to adjust notification time before auto-shutdown
Right now, automatically, the notification time before auto-shutdown is 30 minutes (unless it can be specified somewhere else and I haven't found it). It would be nice to be able to adjust it to something like 60 minutes. This would be nice if we could control this for each VM.
1 voteThanks for submitting feedback. We prioritize features based on customer votes. For those who would like to see this feature sooner, please vote for it.
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In addition to using a Personal Access token (PAT), allow private artifact repo access using an identity provider e.g., AAD
The current model where an individual has to set up a personal access token to allow access to a private artifact repository works reasonably well.
However, as soon as the person who initially set up the access leaves the team or otherwise the team forgets how to set up this link, we find that we have to contact support and they have to remind us that we have to provide a new PAT for use when an artifact disappears
While we can have long-lived PATs up to two years in Azure DevOps, this isn't really a permanent solution because it…
1 voteThanks for your feedback.
We are currently investigating on ways to support MSI (Managed Service Identities) in Labs.
With a user defined MSI you bring to the lab, lab can use it while applying artifacts on VMs (ex. fetch a password for the domain join artifact)Please share any feedback you have to help us make the feature better.
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Progress meter for Dev Test Lab creation
Creating VM's by nature can be slow, seeing progress or maybe diagnostic logs would help elevate frustration when spinning up this product.
1 voteWe do show banners on the UX communicating about the VM creation progress. You can also view the activity log of the VM to track progress.
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Azure Dev Test Labs new VM azure hybrid option while using Microsoft base images.
If possible can we include an option to choose Azure Hybrid option while creating VM's in the Dev Test Lab using Microsoft base images so that we can use BYOL.
1 voteThanks for submitting your feedback. We have this feature in our backlog with no ETA at this point. For those who would like to see this feature sooner, please vote for it.
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The option to suspend auto shutdown for a few hours
It would be a very nice feature to suspend the auto shutdown for a few hours. I.e. when you are working late or have a long running process that you expect to finish a few hours after the auto shutdown time.
1 voteToday, you can set an email to receive a notification either via email or a webhook 30 mins prior to shutdown of your machine. This notification enables you to delay or skip shutdown for the day.
Is this helpful?
Link to doc: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/devtest-lab-auto-shutdown
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