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title: Installing Kentico Azure projects
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

If you want to deploy Kentico to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services, you must first install Kentico on your local computer as an Azure project:

1. Run the Kentico Installer on your **local** development computer.
2. Select your country, agree to the license agreement, and click **Next**.
3. Select the **Custom installation** option.
4. Switch to the **Installation type** tab.
5. Select the **Built-in web server in Visual Studio**.
6. Choose a folder for the project files (for example, C:\Temp\KenticoAzure).
   - The files will be only copied to this location.
7. Select **Microsoft Azure project** as the Web project type.

   ![Installing a Kentico project for Microsoft Azure Cloud Services](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k11/installing-kentico-azure-projects/Installer_custom_azure.png "Installing a Kentico project for Microsoft Azure Cloud Services")
8. Click **Install**.

The Installer copies the project files into the specified folder. When the installation is finished, click the displayed link to open the web project in Visual Studio.

Proceed with [Configuring Kentico Azure projects for Cloud Services](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/running-kentico-on-microsoft-azure/running-kentico-in-azure-cloud-services/configuring-kentico-azure-projects-for-cloud-services.md).