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HDInsight (Hadoop on Azure) Demo: Submit MapReduce job, process result from Pig and filter final results in Hive
In this demo we will submit a WordCount map reduce job to HDInsight cluster and process the results...
Date: 03/28/2013
Windows Azure Powershell 0.6.10 is out and check out $DebugPreference feature to get Request and Response on PS console
Windows Azure Powershell 0.6.10 is out.Check out and you can get 0.6.10 installer from the direct...
Date: 02/12/2013
Windows Azure Powershell 0.6.10 is out and check out $DebugPreference feature to get Request and Response on PS console
Windows Azure Powershell 0.6.10 is out.Check out and you can get 0.6.10 installer from the direct...
Date: 02/12/2013
Powershell script to detect the Windows Azure SDK in Azure Cloud Service VM and fix the Powershell execution issue
When you try to run Powershell commands on Windows Azure Cloud Service (PaaS) VM you may have seen...
Date: 02/05/2013
Using Fiddler to decipher Windows Azure PowerShell or REST API HTTPS traffic
If you are using publishsettings with Powershell, you may not be able to decrypt HTTPS traffic. Not...
Date: 01/30/2013
Executing Powershell commands in Windows Azure Web or Worker Role VM Instance return exception
When trying to run Windows Azure Powershell commands in Windows Azure VM (Web Role or Worker Role)...
Date: 01/28/2013
Using OS disk VHD to create a new Virtual Machine if OS VHD is still on lease in Windows Azure Virtual Machines
There is a situation Windows Azure Virtual machines where either you have deleted the Virtual...
Date: 01/10/2013
Microsoft Server Products and Microsoft License Mobility for Cloud environment
License Mobility Through Software Assurance: With License Mobility through Software Assurance, you...
Date: 11/27/2012
How does Windows Azure PowerShell import publishsettings using Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile command?
As you already know you can use Windows Azure Powershell to manage your Windows Azure Service. To...
Date: 11/20/2012
Customer Evaluation Guide for Windows Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS)
For Customers and Partners, the following summary of resources will support the evaluation of...
Date: 11/14/2012
Are you a Windows Phone developer? Try being part of www.dvlup.com and enjoy the perks
Website: https://www.dvlup.com/ DVLUP is only available to Windows Phone Dev Center Users in the US...
Date: 11/13/2012
The current Windows Azure Support is FREE till December 31st, 2012
As you may have already seen announcement about comprehensive updates to Windows Azure Customer...
Date: 11/12/2012
Hadoop adventures with Microsoft HDInsight
What is HDInsight? HDinsight is the product name for Microsoft installation of Hadoop and Hadoop on...
Date: 11/03/2012
Windows Phone 8.0 Emulator requires a SLAT Supported Hardware Virtulization on Windows 8 Machine
If you have installed Windows Phone SDK 8 on a Windows 8 x64 machine which does not have SLAT...
Date: 10/30/2012
Windows Phone SDK 8.0 available to download and install on Windows 8 machines
Today Windows Phone SDK 8.0 is released and you can get it from here. If you already have Windows 8...
Date: 10/30/2012
Using Windows Server 2012 OS with Windows Azure Cloud Services and .net 4.5
With latest release of Windows Azure, Cloud service user can run their cloud service application in...
Date: 10/29/2012
List of components installed with Windows Azure SDK 1.8
Windows Azure SDK 1.8 is live and available to work with VS2012 and VS2010SP1. You can choose any...
Date: 10/29/2012
Using Startup Task with command line redirection in Windows Azure Role
Recently while working on an incident I found that if you use Windows Azure Startup task with launch...
Date: 09/27/2012
Running Tomcat7 in Ubuntu Linux Virtual Machine at Windows Azure
First create a Ubuntu Virtual Machine on Windows Azure and be sure it is running. Be sure to have...
Date: 08/17/2012
Windows Azure SDK 1.7 Storage Emulator and LocalDB
With Windows Azure SDK 1.7, Windows Azure Storage Emulator uses LocalDB instance specific...
Date: 07/10/2012
Deploying Windows Azure Website using Visual Studio Web Publish wizard
Create your Windows Azure Websites (shared or reserved) and get the publish profile by selecting...
Date: 06/26/2012
Installing Node.js on a CentOS Linux Virtual Machine in Windows Azure
First I created a CentOS Linux Virtual Machine with host names as “nodejsbox” and the...
Date: 06/25/2012
WorkFlow (XAMLX) Service Activity with WCF Service in Windows Azure Websites
I have downloaded pre-built WCF-WF samples from the link here:...
Date: 06/21/2012
Windows Azure Website: Uploading/Downloading files over FTP and collecting Diagnostics logs
Visit to your Go to your Windows Azure Website: In your Windows Azure Website please select the...
Date: 06/19/2012
Using Git to deploy an ASP.NET website shows Windows Azure Blob Storage list at Windows Azure Websites
I have seen a few issues reported related Windows Azure Websites, when someone deploy an ASP.NET web...
Date: 06/19/2012
Installing and Running vsftpd in CentOS Gallery image available at Windows Azure Virtual Machines for Linux
Step 1: Install vsftpd [root@avkashcentnew ~]# yum install vsftpd Package Arch Version Repository...
Date: 06/18/2012
Difference between Windows Azure Cache(Preview) and Windows Azure Shared Cache
With the release of Windows Azure Caching (Preview) and there is already Windows Azure Shared Cache...
Date: 06/18/2012
Enabling HTTP Compression and HTTP 304 Caching (through ETag?) with Windows Azure CDN
When you try enable HTTP compression (gzip) and HTTP 304 Caching via ETags on Azure CDN, you may not...
Date: 05/30/2012
Serving web resources (AXDs) with HTTP Compression through Windows Azure CDN
With Windows Azure CDN you must pass the QueryString parameter containing a compressible filename...
Date: 05/29/2012
Adding MSCHART to your Windows azure Web Role and WCF service could cause exception
You might hit an exception while sdding MSCHART to your Windows azure Web Role and WCF service could...
Date: 05/24/2012
Debugging Windows Azure Web Role Application_Start() method in Global.asax.cs
I am writing the detail below on how you can hit BP at Application_Start() in Global.asax.cs:First...
Date: 05/22/2012
Windows Azure Management using Burp (Java based GUI tool) and REST API
Burp is a great tool to use REST API directly in the GUI. I have written this blog to understand how...
Date: 05/16/2012
Downloading Windows Azure Publish Settings (Subscription Configuration) file
Time to time I need to use my Windows Azure Subscription Profile information however when I want I...
Date: 05/10/2012
Request Filtering, URLScan With Windows Azure Web Role
As you may know URLScan feature is deprecated from IIS7 and Within IIS 7, all the core features of...
Date: 05/03/2012
Multicast Communication in Windows Azure
In Windows Azure we can consider two types of multicast communication:Application/Service level...
Date: 05/01/2012
Windows Azure Blob size return 0 even when blob is accessible and downloaded without any problem
Following is the code which shows Windows Azure Blob size as “0” even when the same blob...
Date: 04/27/2012
Programmatically retrieving Task ID and Unique Reducer ID in MapReduce
For each Mapper and Reducer you can get Task attempt id and Task ID both. This can be done when you...
Date: 04/10/2012
Programmatically setting number of reducers with MapReduce job in Hadoop Cluster
When submitting a Map/Reduce job in Hadoop cluster, you can provide number of map task for the jobs...
Date: 04/05/2012
Why it is important to set proper content-type HTTP header for blobs in Azure Storage
When you try to consume a content from Windows Azure blob storage you might see that sometime the...
Date: 04/04/2012
Processing already sorted data with Hadoop Map/Reduce jobs without performance overhead
While working with Map/Reduce jobs in Hadoop, it is very much possible that you have got...
Date: 04/03/2012
How to submit Hadoop Map/Reduce jobs in multiple command shell to run in parallel
Sometimes it is required to run multiple Map/Reduce jobs in same Hadoop cluster however opening...
Date: 04/02/2012
Scaling with application running in Cloud
Scaling is one super big advantage of having your application running in cloud. Every cloud vendor...
Date: 04/02/2012
Listing current running Hadoop Jobs and Killing running Jobs
When you have jobs running in Hadoop, you can use the map/reduce web view to list the current...
Date: 04/01/2012
How to troubleshoot MapReduce jobs in Hadoop
When writing MapReduce programs you definitely going to hit problems in your programs such as...
Date: 03/30/2012
How to chain multiple MapReduce jobs in Hadoop
When running MapReduce jobs it is possible to have several MapReduce steps with overall job...
Date: 03/29/2012
How to wipe out the DFS in Hadoop?
If you format only Namenode, it will remove the metadata stored by the Namenode, however all the...
Date: 03/28/2012
Running Apache Mahout at Hadoop on Windows Azure (www.hadooponazure.com)
Once you have access enabled to Hadoop on Windows Azure you can run any mahout sample on head node....
Date: 03/06/2012
Enableing gzip compression with Windows Azure CDN through Web Role
CDN picks up compression from the origin and Windows Azure Storage does not support compression...
Date: 03/05/2012