SC VMM 2016 - self service portal

[neonetman]

Morning all,

 

We currently use SC VMM 2008 with the web-based slef service portal to allow our students access to a sandboxed domain and windows client for their coding work. I'm in the process of upgrading our estate to SC 2016, however I can't find the self service portal for this anywhere.

 

Can anyone advise if this is available, if I need to use the SVMM2012 portal, or if I need o stick to upgrading to VMM2012

 

Cheers!

[Steve21]

It was removed even in 2012 after SP1

 

Steve

[neonetman]

So was there any replacement for it, or a 3rd party alternative?

[Steve21]

There's a self service option built into VMM, but this isn't really for people like students anymore, it's still for admins etc just lower admins etc e.g. you wouldn't want students to have it

 

Without a lot of pikeying and "fixes" I couldn't find any way to allow students safe access to any "live" VMs, most people moved across to local VMs on pcs, or a few I know still use network ones but via things like switch ACL lists on private networks etc etc

 

Steve