How to setup virtual machine on Azure for running course lessons?

Having tried all of the steps outlived here and in other posts, I have created the fastai source and environment on my new NC6 instance.

To create the environment:
~/fastai$ conda env create -f ~/fastai/environment.yml

To activate it:
source activate fastai

But it doesn’t really work for me.

The first issue is that when I use the URL supplied when I invoke jupyter notebook I end up in my local system - not on the Azure box.

The second thing is I tried import torch from within ipython on the NC6 system, and I got an error (below) - so there must be some missing dependencies - but I am not sure how to tackle that!

Do you have any suggestions for either or both errors?

Python 3.6.4 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Mar 13 2018, 01:15:57)
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 6.2.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.

In [1]: import torch
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-eb42ca6e4af3> in <module>()
----> 1 import torch

~/.conda/envs/fastai/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/__init__.py in <module>()
     54 except ImportError:
     55     pass
---> 56 from torch._C import *
     57
     58 __all__ += [name for name in dir(_C)

ImportError: /opt/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/libmkl_gf_lp64.so: undefined symbol: mkl_lapack_ao_ssyrdb