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Azure Local
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Azure Local | HomeLab – Troubleshoot Windows Update
This deep-dive shows how a misleading Azure Local health fault — “KeyVaultDoesNotExist” — can block cluster updates even when everything appears healthy. The issue isn’t a missing Key Vault, but …
News | Azure Local 2606
Azure Local’s June 2026 update (version 2606, build 12.2606.1003.205) is a maintenance release focused on reliability and bug fixes, moving the OS to build 26100.32995 and refreshing the .NET …
Azure Local | The Sovereign Cloud Reality Check
When Microsoft renamed Azure Stack HCI to Azure Local, the rebrand felt cosmetic. It was not. Azure Local has become the foundation of Microsoft’s Sovereign Cloud, with connected, hybrid, and fully …
News | Azure Local 2605
Azure Local 2605 is out (12.2605.1003.210, OS 26100.32860, released 28 May 2026). It closes out the unintended Azure Local VM deletion incident and unblocks Solution and SBE updates. Same-day hotfixes …
News | Azure Local Urgent Heads-Up
Azure Local moves fast, and most of the time that is a good thing. Every few weeks there is a new release, a new feature, a new way to make life on-prem feel a bit more like Azure. But once in a while …
Azure Local | HomeLab – Fixing a Failed Cluster Build
Validation passed. The build didn’t. Deploying Azure Local 2604 with Local Identity and Azure Key Vault through the portal looked straightforward — until step 0.16 hit a wall and refused to move. What …
Azure Local | HomeLab – Restore VM
When you restore a virtual machine on Azure Local using Azure Backup or Veeam, you get the Hyper-V workload back, but the Arc object is gone. Microsoft does not support ReHydration, meaning the VM …
Azure Local | HomeLab – Local Identity with Azure KeyVault
This setup is used to validate a new feature and is part of a dedicated test environment. Please note that this functionality is still in preview. More details…
Azure Local | HomeLab – Disaster Recovery
The Disaster Recovery capability for Azure Local is currently in preview, but it already offers enough functionality for meaningful evaluation and testing. Exploring this feature early provides …
News | Azure Local 2604
Azure Local 2604 lifts a lot of historical ceilings. SAN storage and disaggregated deployments go GA, breaking the 16 node limit and letting compute and storage scale independently. GPU acceleration …
Alex ter Neuzen