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Accommodating 35% student growth and making the CFO happy at the same time!

Fawad Khan on Apr 28 2022 06:44 PM
Varsity College in South Africa reduces labs deployment times and accommodates a huge growth in their student enrollment...
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April 2022 Updates

planetmaher on Apr 25 2022 10:34 AM
The product team has been busy working on fundamental improvements for the service to boost performance, reliability, an...
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Running a PowerShell Shutdown script on Windows Lab Services machines.

RogerBestMSFT on Apr 15 2022 01:16 PM
If you want to make sure students don't change the IP address and lose connectivity, setup a shutdown script to reset to...
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Sleepless in Seattle over Cybersecurity

Fawad Khan on Mar 04 2022 01:10 PM
Check out how Azure Lab Services is being used for teaching Cybersecurity courses.
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Azure Lab Services Architecture Guide

nicolehaugen on Jan 25 2022 07:58 AM
Read the recently published architecture guide for Azure Lab Services.
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How users can change RDP app settings to improve their VM connection experience

nicolehaugen on Nov 10 2021 11:00 AM
In this post, we'll show how users can change the RDP app's settings to potentially improve their VM connection experien...
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How to ensure the best RDP experience for lab users

nicolehaugen on Oct 05 2021 07:52 AM
See how to estimate RDP bandwidth requirements, configure optimal RDP settings, and measure\troubleshoot latency.
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Using Collaboration Tools with Azure Lab Services

nicolehaugen on Sep 28 2021 06:00 AM
Let's look at how to foster groupwork across students\teachers using Azure Lab Services and several collaboration tools:...
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Power BI Reports - Part 3: Cost Management Data and Lab Services Data Together

planetmaher on Sep 14 2021 09:00 AM
In the first part of this series, we used PowerBI to visual data from Cost Management for your labs. In the second, we r...
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[Customer Story] Sheffield Hallam University using Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure Lab Services

lucabol on Sep 07 2021 10:45 PM
Here is another example of mixed usage for Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure Lab Services. https://customers.microsoft.com...
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RStudio Class Type Available

planetmaher on Sep 01 2021 09:00 AM
This class type focuses on RStudio and R as a building block for a class that requires the use of statistical computing....
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Power BI Reports for Azure Lab Services - Part 2: Visualizing Lab Information

planetmaher on Aug 25 2021 09:45 AM
In the last blog post, we used Power BI to visualize data from Cost Management for your labs. This blog post will focus ...
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Power BI Reports for Azure Lab Services - Part 1: Visualizing Cost Management Data

planetmaher on Aug 18 2021 09:00 AM
Azure Lab Services costs are integrated with Cost Management on the lab account level. We can also create a custom repor...
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[SIGN UP] Provide feedback on Azure Lab Services integration with Canvas

nicolehaugen on Aug 13 2021 06:55 AM
We are excited to announce the private preview of Azure Lab Services integration with Canvas and are looking for partici...
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Create custom images to use within Azure Lab Services

nicolehaugen on Aug 11 2021 06:00 AM
Create custom Linux\Windows images from a lab’s template VM, Azure VM, or VHD from your physical environment.
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Ethical Hacking with VirtualBox is available.

RogerBestMSFT on Jul 20 2021 11:08 AM
Learn how to setup a Lab Services machine to host multiple virtual machines with VirtualBox.
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React class type is available

planetmaher on Jun 29 2021 09:00 AM
React is a popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces (UI). It is a declarative way to create reusable comp...
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[Customer Story] Imperial College London using Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure Lab Services

lucabol on Jun 09 2021 11:52 PM
Here is an example of mixed usage for Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure Lab Services. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-u...
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Azure Lab Services Tutorial Video 2021

lucabol on Jun 06 2021 11:17 PM
This is a complete tutorial about Azure Lab Services' features. It walks through the steps of setting up a Lab Account, ...
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Autodesk class type is available

nicolehaugen on May 25 2021 04:56 AM
Set up a lab that uses Autodesk for engineering classes.
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[Customer story] PolyU CPCE and Microsoft Hong Kong Launch Virtual Labs for Limitless Learning

lucabol on May 18 2021 11:57 PM
“Azure Lab Services provides more flexibility in classes and allows the faculty to engage better with students. We spoke...
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Lab Liaison Custom Role

planetmaher on May 11 2021 09:00 AM
Azure provides a few built-in roles to allow or deny actions for Azure Lab Services. These built-in roles include owner,...
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Adobe Creative Cloud class type is available

nicolehaugen on May 05 2021 06:00 AM
Set up a lab with Adobe Creative Cloud for digital arts and media classes.
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External File Storage with Azure Lab Services

planetmaher on Apr 29 2021 09:41 AM
Need to store some files outside your lab VM? Read about a few options available to you.
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[Customer story] IT Sligo - levelling the playing field in education with cloud technology

lucabol on Mar 08 2021 05:57 AM
“When it comes to learning new technologies, having the space to explore and play around is very important. With the sol...
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Use Custom Role to Tailor Teachers' Lab Management Permissions

nicolehaugen on Feb 16 2021 08:12 AM
Read this blog post to see how to create a custom role that gives you greater control over the permissions that are gran...
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[Survey] Help us name a new concept!

jieun-msft on Feb 11 2021 03:11 PM
Please help us name this new concept by taking a quick 3-minute survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/79MJ8GN
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ArcMap\ArcGIS Desktop class type is available

nicolehaugen on Feb 10 2021 06:00 AM
Set up a lab that uses ArcMap\ArcGIS to make\analyze maps and work with geographic data.
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Networking with GNS3 Class Type is available

RogerBestMSFT on Feb 08 2021 01:25 PM
Use Azure Lab Services and GNS3 to emulate different network problems in your class room.
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[SURVEY] Need your feedback on admin's lab and lab account management experience

jieun-msft on Dec 21 2020 07:23 PM
As part of improving our backend, we’re evaluating a few changes to the management experience for the admin. Could you t...

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nicolehaugen
in April 2022 Updates on Apr 27 2022 06:55 AM
Hi Masih- The public preview is available across all regions. With the public preview, by default, your subscription is only given a small number of cores for each of the non-GPU sizes. To use GPU sizes, you will need to fill out a support ticket to request a limit increase. Here is more information...
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masih-shek
in April 2022 Updates on Apr 26 2022 02:18 AM
Hi, The Market Place offers only medium and large image sizes.In the North Europe region, I get 0 of 0 NVv4 vCPU available and I must ask for a limit increase. Is the Lab Plan preview not available in North Europe? Regards,Masih
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RogerBestMSFT
in Create custom images to use within Azure Lab Services on Mar 29 2022 11:15 AM
The vm extension are part of the vm structure. The lab creator doesn't have any way to add these to the lab vm structure as Lab Services does all that work on the creators' behalf on the Hobo subscription and doesn't allow that level of access to the vm.
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boteh
in Create custom images to use within Azure Lab Services on Mar 29 2022 12:59 AM
Hello, I'm trying to find a way to implement an automatic backup of our Azure Lab Services VMs. I was wondering if it is possible to create a template that uses Azure vm-extensions (backup, snapshot domain Join, etc) and then use that template in our lab? If that is not possble, could you explain wh...
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RogerBestMSFT
in Using Powershell to domain join Windows 10 Azure Lab Service VMs on Mar 25 2022 10:26 AM
@Masih17 Yep, getting old school debugging by running each script individually. The issue is that that the students vms aren't "newly created" vms but exact copies, the same vm name, ids, etc. The first script renames, restarts the vm to get some uniqueness. If the template is joined then the studen...
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