http://blogs.msdn.com/b/masashi_narumoto/archive/2010/04/03/trick-in-windows-azure-deployment.aspxIf you see web roles or worker roles are going back and forth between initializing-busy-stopping, the first thing you should check is the copy local attribute of the assemblies. All assemblies that aren’t part of .NET framework have to be set as Copyen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)