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Provides expert guidance for Azure Lab Services development including troubleshooting, best practices, architecture, and deployment. Useful when configuring lab plans, VM templates, VNet-integrated labs, or Canvas/Teams integration.
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This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Lab Services. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.
This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Lab Services. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.
IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g.,
L35-L120), useread_filewith the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g.,[security.md](security.md)), useread_fileon the linked reference file
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This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:
mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.| Category | Lines | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Troubleshooting | L37-L44 | Diagnosing and fixing VM access, connectivity, deployment, and lab-creation issues in Azure Lab Services, including when to redeploy or reimage VMs. |
| Best Practices | L45-L53 | Governance and setup guidance for lab plans, custom images, nested virtualization, Linux graphical RDP, and preparing optimized Windows template VMs in Azure Lab Services |
| Decision Making | L54-L65 | Guidance on when and how to use Azure Lab Services: choosing lab types, planning migrations (physical or to other services), cost estimation, GPU sizing, and running training or hackathon scenarios. |
| Architecture & Design Patterns | L66-L72 | Core Azure Lab Services architecture, supported networking topologies, and design patterns for building reliable, resilient lab environments and lab plans |
| Limits & Quotas | L73-L80 | VM capacity and core quotas for labs, how to view usage, request quota increases, and timelines for automatic VM deletion and cleanup. |
| Security | L81-L95 | RBAC roles, lab creator/owner assignment, Azure Policy for compliance and VM size limits, firewall and public IP setup, and educator/student VM password management. |
| Configuration | L96-L126 | Configuring Azure Lab Services: lab plans, regions, images, networking, VM templates, schedules (start/stop/shutdown), capacity, GPU/nested virtualization, and user/educator access. |
| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L127-L140 | Integrating Lab Services with Canvas and Teams, automating lab creation via Bicep/PowerShell/Python, connecting labs to VNets, and remote access to Linux VMs with X2Go. |
| Deployment | L141-L150 | Creating and importing Windows/Linux lab VM images (from Azure VMs, physical labs, or compute galleries), rapidly setting up/publishing labs, and migrating lab accounts to lab plans. |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Troubleshoot Azure Lab Services VMs by redeploying or reimaging | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/how-to-reset-and-redeploy-vm |
| Troubleshoot access problems for Azure Lab Services VMs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/troubleshoot-access-lab-vm |
| Troubleshoot connectivity issues in Azure Lab Services | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/troubleshoot-connect-lab-vm |
| Troubleshoot Azure Lab Services lab creation issues | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/troubleshoot-lab-creation |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Administer lab plans and governance for Lab Services | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/administrator-guide |
| Recommended approaches for Azure Lab custom images | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/approaches-for-custom-image-creation |
| Configure nested virtualization in Azure Lab Services | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/concept-nested-virtualization-template-vm |
| Enable graphical remote desktop for Linux labs with optimal performance | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/how-to-enable-remote-desktop-linux |
| Best practices for preparing Windows lab templates | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/how-to-prepare-windows-template |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Understand Azure Lab Services architecture fundamentals | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/classroom-labs-fundamentals |
| Select supported networking architectures for lab plans | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/concept-lab-services-supported-networking-scenarios |
| Understand reliability and resiliency in Azure Lab Services | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/reliability-in-azure-lab-services |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Review VM capacity limits and quotas for labs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/capacity-limits |
| Determine Azure Lab Services quota and core usage | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/how-to-determine-your-quota-usage |
| Request Azure Lab Services core quota increases | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/how-to-request-capacity-increase |
| Understand automatic VM deletion policy timelines | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/vm-deletion-policy |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Import Linux custom images from Azure VMs into labs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/how-to-bring-custom-linux-image-azure-vm |
| Import Linux images from physical labs into Azure Lab Services | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/how-to-bring-custom-linux-image-vhd |
| Create Azure Lab Services labs from Windows VM images | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/how-to-bring-custom-windows-image-azure-vm |
| Migrate Azure Lab Services accounts to lab plans | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/how-to-migrate-lab-acounts-to-lab-plans |
| Use Azure compute galleries to provide lab VM images | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/how-to-use-shared-image-gallery |
| Rapidly create and publish a lab for students | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/setup-guide |
| Import Windows images from physical labs into Azure Lab Services | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/lab-services/upload-custom-image-shared-image-gallery |
npx claudepluginhub microsoftdocs/agent-skills --plugin azure-agent-skillsProvides expert guidance for Azure DevTest Labs: troubleshooting, best practices, architecture & design patterns, limits, security, configuration, and deployment. Activates when managing DevTest Labs VMs, images, artifacts, ARM/CLI automation, RBAC/Key Vault, or hub-spoke lab setups.
Routes Azure VM/VMSS queries to recommenders for sizing, pricing, autoscale, orchestration or troubleshooters for connectivity like RDP/SSH failures, NSG blocks, black screens.
Routes Azure tasks to the right specialist agent from a catalog. Classifies tasks into domains (architecture, containers, database, etc.) and dispatches single agents or parallel teams. Does not answer Azure questions itself.