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Why does Azure deployment take so long?

I'm trying to understand why it can take from 20-60min to deploy a small application to Azure (using the configuration/package upload method, not from within VS). I've read through this situation and ...
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Approaches for (re)deploying code/bin files to (multiple) Windows Azure Virtual Machines

This question may not relate specifically to Azure Virtual Machines, but I'm hoping maybe Azure provides an easier way of doing this than Amazon EC2. I have long-running apps running on multiple ...
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SQL Azure schema upgrade strategy

i'm currently working on a asp.mvc application with entity framework as db backend which will be running on ms azure platform. on my development machine i'm running a sqlexpress instance which hosts ...
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Using MSBuild and CSPack task to package Azure roles

I am working on a build script for an Azure web role project. The script will run on a build server, so using VS is a non-starter. I can build the project using MSBuild and use CmdLets for Azure to ...
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Avoid deleting folder on Web Publish

I'm deploying my application to an Azure Website. I've configured the Publishing Profile succesfuly and setup tfspreview.com to publish automatically using continuous integration on each code commit. ...
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How to speed up Azure deployment from Visual Studio 2010

I have Visual Studio 2010 solution with an Azure Service and an ASP.NET MVC 3 solution that serves as a Web Role for the Azure service. No other roles attached to the service other than that. Every ...
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Automating deployment of .Net Web App to Azure & SQL Azure & Azure Blobs

Nutshell : I'd like some help / info / resources r.e. setting up a Team Build, MsBuild, TFS 2010 automated deployment for my Web App to Azure (inc. all the DB bits). Ideally I'd like to have a ...
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Managing Multiple web.config files for an MVC3 Azure application

I have an ASP.NET MVC 3 application running on Azure. It also uses SQL Azure for a database. I want to deploy this Application to different instances (Testing, Demo, multiple Productions) and each ...
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Windows Azure and Continuous Integration

We would like to set up continuous integration (CI) environment for developing an Azure web application. It would be great if: We could use any popular CI server (Atlassian Bamboo, for example). ...
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How to deploy Orchard CMS in Windows Azure?

Experts, Is there any of you guys who has successfully built and deployed Orchard CMS (1.1 and above) in Azure? I've tried to build the source codes (pulled from Codeplex repo) as suggested here: ...
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Azure - dealing with SSL in a staging deployment

I have a web application that is hosted in Windows Azure. We want to use SSL for the production deployment, and we have a custom domain name and SSL certificate for the domain, and all of that is ...
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Set up staging and production environmets and minimizing downtime on simple hosting

I have an ASP.NET MVC 3 application, WouldBeBetter.com, currently hosted on Windows Azure. I have an Introductory Special subscription package that was free for several months but was surprised at how ...
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Automatic start of Azure webrole after deploy

A have an azure webrole with a test page and a service in that role. After publishing the role it doesn't start automatically, only at first use. So if the role is shut down for some reason the first ...
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What is the best way to automate windows azure deployment?

Newbie to automated azure deployment here! I have the happy task of automating our deployment to the cloud. I have also done some reading and discovered that the 2 main tools are MSbuild and ...
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Unable to run Set-AzureDeployment

I'm trying to get my .net website to deploy to azure as part of the TFS Build process. I'm writting a powershell script to do this but I'm getting stuck on the set-AzureDeployment -Upgrade command. ...

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