AZURE LOCAL / LOCALBOX FIELD GUIDEL400 deployment and operations
L400 edition · Azure landing-zone design mapping · Recorded lab: October 2026 · Identifiers masked

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01. Account and subscription preflight

Account and subscription preflight; sensitive values visibly masked
Original Azure account/subscription view. Account, tenant, subscription and billing values are masked; field context is retained. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

02. Outer lab resources

Outer lab resources; sensitive values visibly masked
Initial resource-group inventory. Resource counts are a historical observation, not a current readiness claim. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

03. Infrastructure deploying

Infrastructure deploying; sensitive values visibly masked
Historical ARM infrastructure operations. Deploying is not proof that nested Azure Local configuration has finished. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

04. LocalBox-Client

LocalBox-Client; sensitive values visibly masked
The outer Azure VM, not one of the two nested Azure Local servers. Subscription and public address values are masked. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

05. Azure Local before onboarding

Azure Local before onboarding; sensitive values visibly masked
Historical empty Azure Local view before nested nodes were registered. It is not the final cluster state. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

06. Publisher image-access issue

Publisher image-access issue; sensitive values visibly masked
Historical public upstream issue documenting image-access failure. Public issue participant details are also masked. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

07. Official ISO route

Official ISO route; sensitive values visibly masked
Azure Local OS download interface. Subscription selection is masked. License/privacy acceptance is still required. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

08. Matching image version

Matching image version; sensitive values visibly masked
Historical matching release selection. An acquired ISO is a recovery input, not deployment-success evidence. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

09. Arc nodes appear

Arc nodes appear; sensitive values visibly masked
The two nested servers appear as Arc resources. This is a separate gate from completed cluster deployment. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

10. Cluster validation

Cluster validation; sensitive values visibly masked
Historical full validation deployment. Validate and Deploy are distinct phases. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

11. Historical NTP validation failure

Historical NTP validation failure; sensitive values visibly masked
Original validation failure before a targeted time-source correction. Billing and identifiers are masked. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

12. Controlled revalidation

Controlled revalidation; sensitive values visibly masked
Historical validation retry after a pending servicing reboot was addressed. Not final completion evidence. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

13. Validated and deploying

Validated and deploying; sensitive values visibly masked
The blue banner records normal final-deployment progress after validation, not an error or completed deployment. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

14. Cluster deployed

Cluster deployed; sensitive values visibly masked
Recorded completed two-node cluster, Connected. Identity and billing values are masked; this is not a live status feed. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

16. Workload prerequisites card

Workload prerequisites card; sensitive values visibly masked
User-supplied original Get Started cards. Generic grey badges alone did not prove a failed Azure Local installation. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

18. AKS NGINX page

AKS NGINX page; sensitive values visibly masked
Actual single-replica AKS NGINX page through private forwarding. Application capture in isolated Edge, not an Azure portal screenshot. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

19. Ubuntu VM on Azure Local

Ubuntu VM on Azure Local; sensitive values visibly masked
Actual portal-managed Ubuntu VM: Running, two vCPUs, 4096 MB, private NIC, and connected guest agent. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

20. Owner during maintenance

Owner during maintenance; sensitive values visibly masked
Historical application capture with AzLHOST2 as owner during cluster maintenance. Not evidence of a user-run migration. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

21. Manual-exercise baseline

Manual-exercise baseline; sensitive values visibly masked
Actual application showing a fresh AzLHOST1 owner before the manual exercise. Guest identifiers are masked. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

22. Local-user access denied

Local-user access denied; sensitive values visibly masked
User-supplied 0x80070005 failure. Bastion connected; the local account did not have the domain cluster identity. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.

23. Live Migration menu

Live Migration menu; sensitive values visibly masked
User-supplied connected cluster console showing ubuntu-motion owned by AzLHOST1 and Move > Live Migration > Select Node. No completed migration is shown. Original browser/account/identifier fields are masked in the image pixels; no unredacted image is included.