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How-Tos

1. Setup your Hadoop cluster
   • Provision a temporary Hadoop cluster on Microsoft's Elastic Map Reduce Portal
   • Provision a new Hadoop cluster on your Windows Azure subscription.
   • Provision a new Hadoop Cluster on your on-premise hardware.
2. Running Sample Jobs
   • How to run Sample Pi Estimator Job
   • Running Sample WordCount Hadoop Job with a few twists
   • Running 10GB Sort Hadoop Job with Teragen, TeraSort and TeraValidate Options
3. Writing your own Job and running on Cluster
   • Writing your very own WordCount Hadoop Job in Java and deploying to Windows Azure Cluster
   • Running a JavaScript Map/Reduce Job
4. Job Administration
   • Understanding MapReduce Job administration by running 10GB Sort Hadoop Job with TeraSort Option
5.  Interactive Console:
   • Tasks with the Interactive JavaScript Console                 
     • How to create and run a JavaScript Map Reduce Job
   • Tasks with Hive on the Interactive Console
     • How to run Hive Queries from the Interactive Console
6. Remote Desktop
   • How to remote login to Hadoop Cluster
   • Using The Hadoop Command Shell
   • View the Job Tracker
   • View Hdfs
7. Connecting Windows Azure Blob Storage from Hadoop Cluster
   • Configuring Hadoop Cluster to connect with Azure Storage
   • Running a Hadoop job using Azure Storage as Input and Output paramteres
8. Open Ports
   • How to connect Excel to Hadoop-based services on Azure via HiveODBC
   • How to FTP data to Hadoop-based services on Azure
   • How to SFTP data to Hadoop-based services on Azure
9. Manage Data
   • Import Data from Data Market
   • Setup ASV - Use your Windows Azure Blob Storage Account
   • Setup S3 - Use your Amazon S3 account
10. Hadoop-based services on Windows Azure:
    • Tips and Tricks to manage your Hadoop Cluster
    • Running Pig (Pig Latin) on a Hadoop cluster in Windows Azure
11. Scenarios
    • Querying a Web Log File via HiveQL

FAQs

• Frequently asked questions with Hadoop-based services on Windows Azure 

More Information

• See Hadoop-based Services for Windows. 

Blogs / Twitter to Follow

Below are some blogs to follow on Hadoop-based services on Azure

• Alexander Stojanovic (Founder, GM of Hadoop-based services on Azure and Windows), @stojanovic, http://conceptualorigami.blogspot.com/
• Dave Vronay, @davevr, http://dvronay.blogspot.com
• Brad Sarsfield, @bradoop
• Denny Lee, @dennylee, http://dennyglee.com
• Avkash Chauhan, @avkashchauhan, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/avkashchauhan/