add-lab-creator.md

title	Assign a lab creator
titleSuffix	Azure Lab Services
description	This article shows how to add a user to the Lab Creator role for a lab plan in Azure Lab Services. Lab creators can create labs within the lab plan.
services	lab-services
ms.service	azure-lab-services
author	RoseHJM
ms.author	rosemalcolm
ms.topic	how-to
ms.date	07/04/2023
ms.custom	subject-rbac-steps

Add lab creators to a lab plan in Azure Lab Services

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This article describes how to add users as lab creators to a lab account or lab plan in Azure Lab Services. Users with the Lab Creator role can create labs and manage labs for the lab account or lab plan.

Prerequisites

• To add lab creators to a lab plan, your Azure account needs to have the Owner Azure RBAC role assigned on the resource group. Learn more about the Azure Lab Services built-in roles.

Add Microsoft Entra user account to Lab Creator role

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If you're using a lab account, assign the Lab Creator role on the lab account.

Add a guest user as a lab creator

If you need to add an external user as a lab creator, you need to add the external user as a guest account in the Microsoft Entra ID that is linked to your Azure subscription.

The following types of email accounts can be used:

• A Microsoft-domain email account, such as outlook.com, hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com.
• A non-Microsoft email account, such as one provided by Yahoo! or Google. The user needs to link the account with a Microsoft account.
• A GitHub account. The user needs to link the account with a Microsoft account.

To add a guest user as a lab creator:

1. Follow these steps to add guest users to Microsoft Entra ID.

   If using an email account that's provided by your university’s Microsoft Entra ID, you don't have to add them as a guest account.

2. Follow these steps to assign the Lab Creator role to the Microsoft Entra user account.

Important

Only lab creators need an account in Microsoft Entra connected to the Azure subscription. For account requirements for lab users see Access a lab in Azure Lab Services.

Next steps

See the following articles:

• As a lab owner, create and manage labs
• As a lab owner, set up and publish templates
• As a lab owner, configure and control usage of a lab
• As a lab user, access labs