title: How to use IIS app_offline.htm file with Azure
body: <p>I have a brilliantly designed <strong>app_offline.htm</strong> file that I'd like to display on my site periodically when I'm doing things like backing up the DB. On a server with a real file system, this wouldn't be a problem: I'd just copy app_offline.htm to the my app's root, and IIS will work its magic and redirect all requests to this file.</p>
  
  <p>However, I'm using <strong>Azure</strong>, so there's no <em>real</em> file system and there's no easy way move files around from one location to another.</p>
  
  <p>How I can I make app_offline.htm play nicely with Azure?</p>