Deploying software in the Microsoft ecosystem has long been one of the more unloved, and challenging aspects of .NET development. Over the last 3 years, there have been several improvements to deployment practices around Windows, but no single obvious way. With recent announcements of new deployment partnerships for Windows Azure, I want to take a step back and look at what our environments look like, and what tools we're using to deploy to them.
The results of this survey will be collated and circulated, and I’ll try express some trends from them if I can get enough responses.