I have put together a set of utilities that can help ease the process of configuring your Windows Azure environment during deployment. These are meant to be called during the WebRole.OnStart event, from an elevated task.  

Includes:

• Ability to automatically fix the MachineKey based on keys in AppSettings (previous versions of the Azure SDK ignored the MachineKey setting in web.config, so you had to fix it programmatically)
• Ability to fix the missing compression for JSON & SOAP+XML
• Ability to set the AppDomains to start automatically (experimental)
• Ability to trigger a WebRequest at a specified interval to keep your WebRole warmed up (experimental)

Version History:

• 0.2 - Initial release
• 0.3 -
• 0.4 -
• 0.4.4 -