how to solve creat a free vm in student account

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how to solve creat a free vm in student account

mostafa mostafa 0

hello, i have a problem in azure , i tried many times to create a free vm to train on it but the creation stopped at this point.
when i click create no thing happend , just loading and no thing.

Shraddha Pandey 375 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-12-01T16:13:58.86+00:00
Hi mostafa mostafa,

Your issue with Azure for Students VM creation getting stuck at the final step is very common for student and free-tier subscriptions. This usually happens due to region or quota limitations, VM sizes not being available, or required resource providers not being registered for your subscription.

Common Reasons for "Stuck" VM Creation

Regional and Size Restrictions: Many free/student subscriptions have strict quotas and not all VM sizes or regions are available. If the selected region (like "South Africa North") does not have quota or available resources, the VM won't deploy and creation might hang indefinitely. Trying another region (like East US or West Europe) and basic VM sizes (B1s, B1ls) sometimes helps.

Resource Provider Not Registered:

Student and free accounts often do not have necessary resource providers (like Microsoft.Compute or Microsoft.Storage) registered. In the portal, go to "Subscriptions", pick yours, then "Resource Providers", and ensure Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Storage, and Microsoft.Network are "Registered.

Subscription Type Limits: If your account is a Student Starter or has spending limits, some paid VM images (including Windows Server Datacenter) and VM sizes may be blocked outright. Sometimes only Linux images with the smallest B-series sizes are deployable.

Temporary Portal Bugs: Some users report that logging out and logging in again, or using a different web browser/private/incognito window, allowed creation to proceed.

Here are the steps you can follow.

Try a different region and VM size, starting with the smallest available size (B1s or B1ls).

Register missing resource providers.

Make sure you're using your personal Microsoft account and not a university-provided directory Microsoft account.

Consider using Azure CLI (az vm create ...) instead of Portal.

Using Azure CLI is helpful because it bypasses some portal UI bugs and shows you clear error messages if the subscription or region is blocking the VM.

Azure for Students subscriptions are known for these restrictions, and in many cases, persistent policy or region/size controls limit VM creation, especially with Windows images or outside of US/Europe regions.

Documents:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/quick-create-cli

I hope the above helps. Please let us know if you have any further questions on this.

Thank You!
Shraddha Pandey 375 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-12-03T08:00:50.57+00:00

Hi mostafa mostafa,

Just checking to see if you have a chance to check my previous response and helped, do let me know if you have any further questions on this.

Thank You!
Shraddha Pandey 375 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-12-04T07:50:18.7233333+00:00

Hi mostafa mostafa,

Just checking in, if you got a chance to review my earlier response, let me know if you're still blocked with the issue.

Thank You!
mostafa mostafa 0 Reputation points

2025-12-04T12:45:13.98+00:00

Hello, I see their is a problem in region , and I found permitted region to my account , but still problem stand. At final step when I press create page loading and no thing happen with any error message , so i try to create using cli and this error is appear The command failed with an unexpected error. Here is the traceback:

azure.core.exceptions.HttpResponseError: (InvalidTemplateDeployment) The template deployment failed with multiple errors. Please see details for more information.

Code: InvalidTemplateDeployment

Message: The template deployment failed with multiple errors. Please see details for more information.

Exception Details: (RequestDisallowedByAzure) Resource '<resource-name removed>' was disallowed by Azure: This policy maintains a set of best available regions where your subscription can deploy resources. The objective of this policy is to ensure that your subscription has full access to Azure services with optimal performance. Should you need additional or different regions, contact support.

Code: RequestDisallowedByAzure
Shraddha Pandey 375 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-12-04T14:33:27.6733333+00:00
Hi mostafa mostafa,

There's a bug with the Marketplace Free VM offer where the public IP is correctly set to Standard SKU, but the allocation remains Dynamic, which is incorrect. To qualify for the free offer, you can manually create a VM with the correct settings. Use the link below to begin (this is for Linux, with notes for Windows VMs provided):

https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.VirtualMachine

For Linux, set the following:

Size: Standard_B1s

Image: Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS - x64 Gen2

OS disk size: 64 GiB (P6)

OS disk type: Premium SSD (locally-redundant storage)

Monitoring tab: Boot diagnostics: Disable

Avoid enabling options like Backup to prevent extra charges.

After creating the VM, monitor your costs daily through your subscription. If all parameters are correct, you shouldn't see charges except for the public IP, which may take a few hours to appear.

Note that using a Public IP address will incur a charge (around $3.65/month). To reduce costs, dissociate and delete the Public IP when not using the VM.

When you need to use the VM again, create and associate a new Public IP with the VM's network interface.

For Windows, select [smalldisk] Windows Server images with a P6 LRS disk.

After creating a Linux VM, expand the partition to use the full 64 GiB:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/expand-disks?tabs=ubuntu#expand-a-di…

For Windows VMs, expand the disk to utilize the full 64 GiB:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/expand-disks

Please let us know if the steps above work for you.

Thank You!

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Shraddha Pandey 375 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-12-03T08:00:50.57+00:00

Hi mostafa mostafa,

Just checking to see if you have a chance to check my previous response and helped, do let me know if you have any further questions on this.

Thank You!
Shraddha Pandey 375 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-12-04T07:50:18.7233333+00:00

Hi mostafa mostafa,

Just checking in, if you got a chance to review my earlier response, let me know if you're still blocked with the issue.

Thank You!
mostafa mostafa 0 Reputation points

2025-12-04T12:45:13.98+00:00

Hello, I see their is a problem in region , and I found permitted region to my account , but still problem stand. At final step when I press create page loading and no thing happen with any error message , so i try to create using cli and this error is appear The command failed with an unexpected error. Here is the traceback:

azure.core.exceptions.HttpResponseError: (InvalidTemplateDeployment) The template deployment failed with multiple errors. Please see details for more information.

Code: InvalidTemplateDeployment

Message: The template deployment failed with multiple errors. Please see details for more information.

Exception Details: (RequestDisallowedByAzure) Resource '<resource-name removed>' was disallowed by Azure: This policy maintains a set of best available regions where your subscription can deploy resources. The objective of this policy is to ensure that your subscription has full access to Azure services with optimal performance. Should you need additional or different regions, contact support.

Code: RequestDisallowedByAzure
Shraddha Pandey 375 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-12-04T14:33:27.6733333+00:00

Hi mostafa mostafa,

There's a bug with the Marketplace Free VM offer where the public IP is correctly set to Standard SKU, but the allocation remains Dynamic, which is incorrect. To qualify for the free offer, you can manually create a VM with the correct settings. Use the link below to begin (this is for Linux, with notes for Windows VMs provided):

https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.VirtualMachine

For Linux, set the following:

Size: Standard_B1s

Image: Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS - x64 Gen2

OS disk size: 64 GiB (P6)

OS disk type: Premium SSD (locally-redundant storage)

Monitoring tab: Boot diagnostics: Disable

Avoid enabling options like Backup to prevent extra charges.

After creating the VM, monitor your costs daily through your subscription. If all parameters are correct, you shouldn't see charges except for the public IP, which may take a few hours to appear.

Note that using a Public IP address will incur a charge (around $3.65/month). To reduce costs, dissociate and delete the Public IP when not using the VM.

When you need to use the VM again, create and associate a new Public IP with the VM's network interface.

For Windows, select [smalldisk] Windows Server images with a P6 LRS disk.

After creating a Linux VM, expand the partition to use the full 64 GiB:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/expand-disks?tabs=ubuntu#expand-a-di…

For Windows VMs, expand the disk to utilize the full 64 GiB:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/expand-disks

Please let us know if the steps above work for you.

Thank You!

Answer 1

Hi,

There is a bug in the Marketplace Free VM offer that has public IP set to Standard SKU (correct), but still has allocation set to Dynamic (incorrect). What you can do is manually create VM using correct parameters to qualify for free. To start the process you may use link below (this is for Linux with notes for Windows VM after):

https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.VirtualMachine

For Linux, when creating, set

Size: Standard_B1s
Image: Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS - x64 Gen2
OS disk size: 64 GiB (P6)
OS disk type: Premium SSD (locally-redundant storage)
Monitoring tab: Boot diagnostics: Disable

Don't enable any of the options if you want to avoid charges, for example, if you turned on Backup that has a charge associated with it.

After creating VM, please monitor costs (at least daily) by navigating to your subscription. If you used correct parameters for the VM you should not see any charges accrue related to it, except for the public IP address. Charges are delayed, so it will take typically several hours (after creation) before any would show up.

If you associate Public IP address with the VM you will be charged for this (about $3.65/month each). You can minimize the charges by dissociating it from the VM's network interface and deleting it when you are not using the VM.

When you want to use VM again you would create Public IP and associate it with VM's network interface.

For Windows you would use [smalldisk] Windows Server images with P6 LRS disk.

After creating Linux VM you should expand the partition so you are using the full 64 GiB:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/expand-disks?tabs=ubuntu#expand-a-disk-partition-and-filesystem

After creating Windows VM you should expand disk so you are using full 64 GiB:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/expand-disks

Please click Accept Answer and upvote if the above was helpful.

Thanks.

-TP