Pre-requisite :

• Windows XP or more later version of Windows OS.
• Powershell 2.0 installed
• PowerShell for Azure installed
• Azure Project compiled and packaged

Steps :

1. Open PowerShell for Azure
2. Initialize PowerShell with Azure Libraries :
   import-module "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Azure\PowerShell\Azure\Azure.psd1"
3. Retrieve Azure Publish Settings Files :
   Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile
4. Fill in account credentials used for publishing in web browser
5. Copy .publishsettings file into your deployment directory, in this example C:\dev\Azure_Deployment\settings_cert
6. Rename publish settings files to myFirstAzurePSDeployment.publishsettings
7. Use publishsettingsfile to associate the Azure Account with your current machine or computer
   Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile C:\dev\Azure_Deployment\settings_cert\myFirstAzurePSDeployment.publishsettings
8. Once the import is completed, the following output will be shown in the PowerShell command prompt :

   Success :
    Setting: LV Cloud Core Development Account as the default and current subscription.

9. To view other subscriptions use Get-AzureSubscription
10. To confirm the Azure account association is successful run the following, command
    Get-AzureSubscription

    to get the similar output :

     SubscriptionName : My Azure Deployment PS
     SubscriptionId : 067b7777-1234-abcd-4567-1234c38e5dcb
     Certificate : [Subject]
     CN=Windows Azure Tools[Issuer]
     CN=Windows Azure Tools[Serial Number]
     089DDDD7F56E118B46FEEEEEA7118E97
    [Not Before]
     1/10/2013 7:35:23 AM
    [Not After]
    1/10/2014 7:35:23 AM
    
    [Thumbprint]
    1234525D89DA9F6844C665228FFFFFFF440FDC7F
    ServiceEndpoint : https://management.core.windows.net/
    SqlAzureServiceEndpoint :
    CurrentStorageAccount : MyFirstAzureDeploymentPSBLOB
    IsDefault : True
    SubscriptionName : MyAzureDeploymentPS
    SubscriptionId : 9fa79dac-3569-4154-b1d9-7863259b8bef
    Certificate : [Subject]
    CN=Windows Azure Tools
    [Issuer]
    CN=Windows Azure Tools
    [Serial Number]
    5555552DFA7444444D7ABE120163949F
    [Not Before]
    3/22/2013 11:05:06 AM
    [Not After]
    3/22/2014 11:05:06 AM
    [Thumbprint]
    12345029C22A42B871234567F06794D8CB75
    ServiceEndpoint : https://management.core.windows.net/
    SqlAzureServiceEndpoint :
    CurrentStorageAccount :
    IsDefault : False

11. Select the correct Azure subscription which will be used as the targeted to be deployed.
    Select-AzureSubscription “My First Azure Deployment PS”
12. Initialize Azure subscription with the correct BLOB storage, the BLOB storage will be used by Azure during deployment as a temporary upload location before Azure will install your software project into Azure Instances (Web Role or Worker Role).
    Set-AzureSubscription "My First Azure Deployment PS" - CurrentStorageAccount MyFirstAzureDeploymentPSBLOB
13.  Confirm your Azure ServiceName which will be used to have your Azure Application deployed, use the following command to list the Hosted Services.Get-AzureService
    Example of output :

    Label : MyAzureDeploymentPS
     Description : description of the subsystem
     AffinityGroup : 9bf5714d-3c8e-44e0-985f-c4626c495284
     Location :
     Status : Created
     DateModified : 2012-12-04T03:14:12Z
     DateCreated : 2012-11-06T22:37:59Z
     Url : https://management.core.windows.net/9fa79dac-3569-4154-b1d9-7863259b8bef/services/hostedservices/MyAzureDeploymentPS
     ServiceName : MyAzureDeploymentPS
     OperationDescription : Get-AzureService
     OperationId : ea0dd11d-e3f2-46ec-8fd1-a2e472d07b85
     OperationStatus : Succeeded

14. Once everything is in order from step 1 to step 12, use the following command to deploy your Azure Project. It is important to ensure there are no existing Service running in the Azure ServiceName staging slot.
    New-AzureDeployment -ServiceName MyAzureDeploymentPS -Package C:\dev\VS-TFS\MyExamples\MyAzureDeploymentPS\bin\Release\app.publish\MyAzureDeploymentPS.cspkg -Configuration C:\dev\VS-TFS\MyExamples\MyAzureDeploymentPS\bin\Release\app.publish\MyAzureDeploymentPS.cscfg -Slot staging -Label "My Azure Deployment PS" -Name MyAzureDeploymentPS
15. Check the temporary URL in the staging environment, make sure your application is able to behaves as expected.
16. Lastly, to perform Virtual IP Swap; swapping the application from staging slot to production slot of Azure, make sure that the production slot of the ServiceName is empty. Then run :
    Move-AzureDeployment -ServiceName "MyAzureDeploymentPS"
17. If there is no error until Step 16, you are done deploying Azure Package into Azure account using PowerShell.