This document contains an agenda for discussing the state of university laboratories, benefits of Microsoft Virtual Labs, scenarios for using Virtual Labs in classrooms and for student/researcher self-service, and a demonstration. It also lists contacts at Microsoft for questions and highlights recent features added to Virtual Labs by the Microsoft product team, including cost tracking, shared public IP addresses between VMs, environment templates, automatic VM shutdown, attaching additional disks, and setting VM expiration dates.

2. AGENDA
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3. State of laboratories in universities

4. State of laboratories in universities … more evolved (VDI)

5. Microsoft Virtual LABs - Benefits
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 https://portal.azure.com/
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6. Virtual LABs scenarios - ClassRoom Lab

7. Virtual LABs scenarios –
Student and researchers Self-Service LAB

8. DEMO

9. Partnership with the product team …

10. Universities FAQ and common requests

12. Contatti
Luca.Polzot@microsoft.com
Alessandra.Migliore@microsoft.com
Francesco.Umiliaco@microsoft.com

13. Product group added features ….
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devtestlab/2016/06/21/keep-your-cost-on-track/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-devtest-labs-share-
public-ip-address-between-lab-vms/

14. Product team added features ….
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devtestlab/2016/11/16/connect-2016-news-for-
azure-devtest-labs-azure-resource-manager-template-based-environments-vm-auto-
shutdown-and-more/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-devtest-labs-attach-additional-data-
disk-to-your-lab-vm/
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devtestlab/2016/09/21/set-expiration-date-for-
vms-in-azure-devtest-labs/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-devtest-labs-set-expiration-
date-for-new-vms-from-azure-portal/

15. Product group added features ….