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Azure Lab Services Quickstart - Create a lab using the Azure Lab Services labs.azure.com portal.
In this quickstart, you learn how to create an Azure Lab Services lab using the labs.azure.com portal.
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Quickstart: Create a lab using the Azure Lab Services portal

Educators can create labs containing VMs for students using the Azure Lab Services portal. This quickstart shows you how to create a lab with Windows 11 Pro image. Once a lab is created, an educator configures the template, adds lab users, and publishes the lab.

Prerequisites

To complete this quick start, make sure that you have:

Create a lab

The following steps show how to create a lab with Azure Lab Services.

  1. Sign into the Azure Lab Service portal.

  2. Select New lab.

    :::image type="content" source="./media/quick-create-lab-portal/new-lab-button.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Azure Lab Services portal. New lab button is highlighted.":::

  3. In the New Lab window, choose the basic settings for the lab.

    1. Set the Name to Lab 101.

    2. Set the Virtual machine image to Windows 11 Pro.

    3. Set the Virtual machine size to Medium.

      :::image type="content" source="./media/quick-create-lab-portal/new-lab-window.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the New lab window for Azure Lab Services.":::

    4. On the Virtual machine credentials page, specify default administrator credentials for all VMs in the lab. Specify the name and the password for the administrator. By default all the student VMs will have the same password as the one specified here.

      :::image type="content" source="./media/quick-create-lab-portal/new-lab-credentials.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Virtual Machine credentials window for Azure Lab Services.":::

    [!IMPORTANT] Make a note of user name and password. They won't be shown again.

    1. On the Lab policies page, leave the default selections and select Next.

      :::image type="content" source="./media/quick-create-lab-portal/quota-for-each-user.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Lab policy window when creating a new Azure Lab Services lab.":::

    2. On the Template virtual machine settings window, leave the selection on Create a template virtual machine.

      :::image type="content" source="./media/quick-create-lab-portal/template-virtual-machine-settings.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Template virtual machine settings windows when creating a new Azure Lab Services lab.":::

  4. You should see the following screen that shows the status of the template VM creation.

    :::image type="content" source="./media/quick-create-lab-portal/create-template-vm-progress.png" alt-text="Screenshot of status of the template VM creation.":::

  5. When the lab is completed, you'll see the Template page of the lab.

    :::image type="content" source="./media/quick-create-lab-portal/lab-template-page.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Template page of a lab.":::

Clean up resources

When no longer needed, you can delete the lab.

On the tile for the lab, select three dots (...) in the corner, and then select Delete.

:::image type="content" source="./media/how-to-manage-labs/delete-button.png" alt-text="Screenshot of My labs page with More menu then Delete menu item highlighted.":::

On the Delete lab dialog box, select Delete to continue with the deletion.

Next steps

In this quickstart, you created a lab with Azure Lab Services. To learn more about advanced options for labs, see Tutorial: Create and publish a lab.

Advance to the next article to learn how to configure the template VM.

[!div class="nextstepaction"] Configure a template VM