Auto-stop your Dev Boxes when users disconnect

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To save on costs, you can configure your Dev Box pools to stop when a user disconnects from their RDP session, after a timeout period that you can configure. Microsoft Dev Box attempts to stop all dev boxes after a user disconnects, and they do not re-establish a new RDP session within the configured timeout period.

Note

Stop on disconnect will only apply to Dev Boxes that are created with hibernation enabled Dev Box definitions. To learn more about enabling hibernation on your Dev Box definitions, see how to configure dev box hibernation.

Important

Dev Box Hibernation is currently in PREVIEW. For more information about the preview status, see the Supplemental Terms of Use for Microsoft Azure Previews. The document defines legal terms that apply to Azure features that are in beta, preview, or otherwise not yet released into general availability.

Permissions

To manage stop on connect settings on a dev box pool, you need the following permissions:

Action Permission required
Configure a pool Owner, Contributor, or DevCenter Project Admin.

Manage stop on disconnect settings with the Azure CLI

You can manage stop on disconnect settings on dev box pools by using the Azure CLI.

Update a pool with stop on disconnect

The following Azure CLI command enables stop on disconnect on a dev box pool:

az devcenter admin pool update --pool-name {poolName} --project {projectName} --resource-group {resourceGroupName} --stop-on-disconnect status="Enabled" grace-period-minutes="180"
Parameter Value
pool-name Name of your dev box pool.
project Name of your dev box project.
resource-group Name of the resource group for your dev box pool.
grace-period-minutes Duration to wait after the user disconnects from an RDP session before stopping the dev box, in minutes
status Indicates whether stop on disconnect is in use. The options include Enabled or Disabled.

Disable stop on disconnect

The following Azure CLI command disables stop on disconnect on a dev box pool:

az devcenter admin pool update --pool-name {poolName} --project {projectName} --resource-group {resourceGroupName} --stop-on-disconnect status="Disabled"
Parameter Value
pool-name Name of your dev box pool.
project-name Name of your dev box project.

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