For questions about Microsoft Azure DevTest Labs, for provisioning self-service dev/test environments on Azure. DevTest Labs has tools for setting policies on the kinds and sizes of VMs that can be created, for customising them with additional installation scripts, and for controlling costs and user access to the resulting dev/test environments.
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Is it possible to create custom Linux-based Docker image on Azure Windows Server DSVM
I am using an Azure DSVM in a DevTest Lab running Windows Server 2019. I am trying to get Docker installed and working to allow me to run local experiments from Azure ML Service environments.
I want to build a custom Linux container on Docker -…

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How to enable Update Management in Azure DevTest labs
I want to enable automatic patching on my Azure DevTest Lab virtual machines but I can't see Update management under Operations.
The machines are based on Windows Server 2019 Datacenter and I get the hint from this article that Azure Market place…

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Azure cloud based management system for virtual environments orchestration and life cycle management
So basically I've been working with the Neway Labs for a long time and I kept having issues with this software. For example you can't create an environment template and creating multiple environments for users can take up to 30-60 minutes of…

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How can I add Managed Identity to a DevTest Labs VM?
I want to develop and test MSI on my development Windows VM which I created with DevTest Labs.
Going into the VM directly on Identity (Preview) I can change the setting but the Save keeps being disabled.

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How to specify the Timezone of a VM in Azure Devtest Labs
Is there a way to specify the timezone of a VM?
Can I do something in the Devtest Lab ARM template, or in the formula?
Or
do I need to run a PowerShell script once the VM is up to do it?

Frank Boucher
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Move DevTest Lab VM to another DevTest Lab
I'm trying to move a VM custom image from one DevTest Lab to another and can't seem to find an easy way to accomplish that. My VM is using managed disks and also has a data disk.
I've read the following article…

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Running Azcopy in parallel - bottleneck?
I want to download/upload files to Azure in parallel.
AzCopy, by default does not allow multiple runs on the same copy because of the locks on journal files. I am running multiple Azcopy instances on the same machine by pointing each of these…

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Azure DevTest lab : ResourceGroupNotFound error
I am trying to create a VM out of a custom image in dev test lab using az lab vm create .. command.
I end up getting an error :
Message: Resource group '.....' could not be found.
I made sure that the resource group name I am passing in, is the…

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How to access localhost from on android emulator inside a VM?
I know the question sounds a bit confusing but here we go.
I am using an Azure VM to develop a cross platform app (Xamarin) and the app needs to utilise a .net core web API.
I am using a Google Emulator that has access to the internet.
What I have…

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Fix Port Range on Public IP for Azure DevTest Lab
Azure DevTest Labs now enable you to use a single public IP to access all your VMs via RDP (see here). It appears to work using NAT, whereby the load balancer will assign a different port number for each VM's RDP port.
Is it possible to define the…

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Azure DevTest Labs custom artifact not taking effect
I cloned the notepad++ artifact from GitHub and am trying to install VLC using Chocolatey.
I'm looking into the chocolatey log files and the log files have no trace of VLC in them.
I can see the custom artifact getting picked up from my Git repo in…

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Azure share devtest lab base between different labs
I have several devtest labs in different resource groups in Azure. I want to be able to use a base image created in one in the other.
I see that other base images are saved as snapshot objects.
I have exported the base that I want as a snapshot,…

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Azure DevTest Lab VM snapshots
We're thinking of migrating our testing process to Azure. Currently we test our software using our on-premise virtual infrastructure and Azure DevTest Labs is a service that seems to offer similar capabilities except for one - snapshots. I haven't…

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Deploy an ARM template on DevTestLab failure - missing snapshot error
Prerequisites:
DevTest Lab with Azure Repos connected (as a source for ARM Templates)
working ARM template
Custom images in that DTLab
You try to deploy an ARM template and all deployments fail with error:
Please note, that the mentioned in error…

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Movement of Azure SQL databases from Azure standard subscription to dev/test subscription
I have Azure Standard subscription, few azure SQL databases which are related to non-prod running on this subscription. Now I have purchased dev/test subscription . I am planning to move those databases/server from Standard subscription to dev/test…

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