Creating a classroom lab just got easier and more streamlined in Azure Lab Services. When creating a new lab, you will be taken through a wizard flow that guides you through the steps of selecting the virtual machine specifications, setting up default virtual machine credentials, configuring a template virtual machine, and publishing to make virtual machines available to your users.

Each step comes with tips that explain what you are setting:

The wizard provides a summary of what you have set, so that if you want to publish virtual machines to your users, it’s clear what you are providing them.

The wizard also makes it clear when long-running processes, such as creating or publishing the template, are taking place in your lab. Previously, the status of these important processes were more hidden, which was a confusing experience for many of our users.

For further details, see the documentation on setting up a classroom lab.

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