Steven LafortuneTesting new IT tools always comes with a question: where do you actually test them? Your production environment is off the table: nobody wants to poke around privileged access controls on systems that matter. And spinning up your own sandbox takes time most teams don’t have.
That’s exactly the gap the Devolutions Lab fills.
What is the Lab?
The Devolutions Lab is a self-service, on-demand environment where you can explore Remote Desktop Manager (RDM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) hands-on, directly in your browser. No installation, no VM to configure, no infrastructure to touch. Sign in with your Devolutions account, launch a session, and you’re in.
It’s built for evaluation and proof-of-concept scenarios specifically, the kind of testing you don’t want happening anywhere near production.
What you can actually do in there
Once you’re in, the Lab gives you a preconfigured playground to:
- Simulate real-world access scenarios, the way your team would encounter them day to day.
- Explore RDM workflows — connections, credentials, centralized management — without setup overhead.
- Evaluate PAM concepts, including identity and permission management.
- Test secure access across different types of resources, knowing nothing you do touches your own systems.
- Follow guided tutorials at your own pace, if you’d rather learn as you go than wing it.
Basically, it’s a way to answer “does this actually work the way we need it to?” before you commit to anything.
How a session works
Each Lab session runs on a timer. You can pause and pick it back up whenever you want, as long as the timer hasn’t run out. Once it does, the environment resets automatically.
That reset isn’t a limitation, it’s the point. It means the Lab stays isolated and consistent every time you or anyone else launches a new session, and you’re free to break things, try weird edge cases, or run through the same scenario twice without worrying about cleanup.
Getting started
Ready to poke around? Head to the Devolutions Lab, sign in with your Devolutions account, and launch a free on-demand session. No setup, no risk to your infrastructure: just hands-on learning through real use cases.
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