'You're not eligible for an Azure free account' when trying to sign up with .edu domain account
Hi Team, I am not sure if this is a suitable place I can raise this however since I was not sure whom to reach I dared to write it here. Apologies in advance. A university student with .edu domain when trying to sign up for Azure for Students account at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students/ is prompting with following message although the expectation was that- a 100$ Azure account would be immediately provisioned. However, later when I checked into https://www.microsoftazuresponsorships.com/ with the same login, I could see 100$ balance but without a subscription. Now, I am unable to use this 100$ worth credit. Is there a way to access this offer? Am I missing something here? PS: Until a month before, it was possible for student users in the same .edu.np domain to sign up for an active Azure for Student subscription with 100$ credit. Many thanks for your attention. Thanks, Pradeep Kandel
Azure Lab Services - Planned Outage - April 19, 2024
Hello Everyone, On April 19th, 2024, we will be updating our system between 1:00-10:00 pm UTC. Please expect downtime for most common operations like create/ update/ delete labs, start/stop virtual machines etc. The service will be available after the update. We will provide update on this post once the service update is complete. Thank you for your patience. - Lab Services team.
Internet issues with Nested Virtualization Hyper-V VMs when publishing template
On a number of occassions when we deploy an existing template or publish a template for our Hyper-V classes, the Hyper-V VMs lose the ability to connect to the internet. After some playing around I found that the NetNat service often fails to run which causes the internet to not work through the Nat created on the host VM template. Is anyone else getting this issue? To setup the NAT to allow internet access to the Hyper-V VMs, I run the script provided by MS doco on Azure Lab Services (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/classroom-labs/how-to-enable-nested-virtualization-template-vm-using-script). I run this on the template before publishing. I'm not sure how the Nat service works but WinNat service isn't visible in the Services.msc gui or if you do a "get-service -Name *" in Powershell. To verify if the NAT service is running, run Get-NetNat and you should see if the Nat Active status is True or False. If it's false, internet won't work for your Hyper-V VMs. To fix it I put a script on the template and get it to run when the user logs into the VM via registry Check_NetNat_Service.ps1 $netnat = Get-NetNat If ($netnat.Active -eq "False") { Start-Service WinNat Write-Host "WinNat Service has been started" -ForegroundColor Green } Else { Write-Host "WinNat Service is already running" -ForegroundColor Cyan } From what I can see. The publishing breaks or causes the NAT service to not run on the deployed VMs. This is a bit annoying to configure as most teachers won't understand how to fix this, so I need to set this up for these types of labs.Welcome to Azure Lab Services Forum
We are the Azure Lab Services team and would like to welcome you to the new discussion forum for Lab Services! This forum is a place for you to ask questions about others' experiences, share ideas, learn best practices, learn about outage updates, collaborate with others, and have direct interaction with the Lab Services product and engineering teams. For those who are new to Lab Services or for those who are wanting to learn more, here are some helpful links to get started with: What is Azure Lab Services? Lab Services documentation Lab Services User Voice for feature requests We're excited you've joined us and look forward to your conversations. We will be doing our best to ensure your questions are answered promptly - and we invite you to answer questions, too. Thanks so much for being here, Lab Services team
VM stuck in starting state
I have in VM in my lab that has been stuck in a starting state since this morning. The machine is lab-cfbedd8e-9349-431a-b614-3c573a23bc5e.southcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com. The name of the lab is DEI_320D. I currently have 2 machines in the lab - the other can be stopped and started without an issue, and the template machine also seems to be fine. The VM got in this state when the professor trying to use it was adjusting display sizing and other settings in RDP - this may not have been the cause, but it was what was happening when the machine stopped. Then it got stuck in the starting state when he restarted it. Can someone force the machine into a stopped state so we can attempt to re-start it? Also, are there things the lab owner can do to deal with issues like this without having to contact support? It seems like my only option would be to delete and recreate the VM if it stays stuck in the starting state.
I cannot reset my password.
Hi, I have tried to reset my password as mentioned in the below link. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/how-to-set-virtual-machine-passwords-student#reset-password-later But After I click on that after some time it's getting timeout and everything resetting back. And I cannot connect to my RDP as well. There is no link for connecting to RDP Highly Appreciate your kind advice on this.
