End to End Demo: Hadoop (HDInsight) + Hive + Excel + Power View + Azure Data Market

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A great end to end demo shown by Microsoft at Strata conference 2012:

Description about Demo:

Scenario: Analyze web logs of an online bike store.

Tools demonstrated:

Hadoop (Get started with HDInsight)

Hive.

Excel 2013

Power View

Azure Data Market.

A Dashboard in Power View showing co-relation between discount campaigns and the traffic:

This is mash-up of data from Hadoop (traffic) and data from SQL Server (discount campaigns)

end to end demo microsoft hadoop hdinsight

Conclusion

In this blog-post, I shared an awesome demo about HDInsight. check it out!

Getting started with HDInsight (a.k.a Microsoft’s Big Data hadoop Platform) on local Windows Machine!

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Recently Microsoft announced HDInsight on Windows server! and so it’s good to get a chance to play with its public preview! Currently there two ways you can run HDInsight: 1) Via Windows Azure 2) On your local Windows machine.

In this blog-post, I would show you step by step to install a HDInsight on a local Windows Machine. For the purpose of this blog-post, I am going to show it on Windows 7 but it also supported on Windows Server 2008 R2.

download hadoop on windows machine hdinsight

Note that the ideal audience for this blog-post would be a developer who wants to kick tires of Hadoop on windows machine to see what it can do! If I had wanted to target it to Hadoop administrators then I would have shown how to do it on Windows Server and also how to manage the Hadoop cluster with system center. But for this blog-post, I am going to target developers so that they can get started playing with Hadoop on a windows machine! With that, here are the steps to install Hadoop (HDInight) on Windows 7:

1) open Web Platform Installer. Download and install it if you haven’t yet.

2) search for Hadoop

install hadoop windows via web platform installer

3) Install it!

4) You should get a message saying that it successfully installed it!

5) Do you see a Microsoft HDInsight Dashboard ICON on your Desktop? Yes? Great! Open it!

windows hadoop big data dashboard6) And here’s the IIS manager showing the site that hosts the above Dashboard. Just wanted to show this to folks who might not see the Dashboard at http://localhost:8085/

IIS windows hadoop local host site port 8085

7) That’s about it for his post. If you want to continue learning, check out the “documentation” link at the bottom on the Hadoop Dashboard which is: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6204.hadoop-based-services-for-windows-en-us.aspx

Conclusion:

In this blog-post, we saw how to install HDInsight (Microsoft’s Hadoop) on local windows machine.

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How to Disable password expiration for Windows Server 2008 R2 (domain controller)?

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I have written about how to disable password expiration for Windows Server 2008 R2 if it is NOT a domain controller. You can Find that post here: http://parasdoshi.com/2012/04/19/how-to-disable-the-password-expiration-policy-in-windows-server-2008-r2-demo-machine/

Now, if you are looking to disable the password for the Windows Server 2008 R2 dev. machine which is also a Domain Controller then follow these steps:

1) If you go to “Local security policy- you’ll see the options but it is not going to allow you to change the setting even if you are logged in as domain administrator.

windows server 2008 r2 disable password expiration local security policy

2. So we need an alternate path to edit the password expiration policy.

Go to Start > Administrative Tools > Group Policy Management

3. Here click on “edit” for the default domain policy for the domain of your choice:

windows server 2008 r2 disable password expiration group policy management

4. Go To Policies > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Account Policies > Password Policy

windows server 2008 r2 disable password expiration group policy management editor

5. Change the Password Policy!

Note that changing your password policy to disable password expiration is a security vulnerability. It’s applicable for your Demo Machine only. Or your Dev Machine. The reason I am documenting it that I do not want to change the password of Windows Server on which I have my Sharepoint BI dev environment Setup. It’s MY Dev Environment and I am NOT sharing it with other folks PLUS I do not anything sensitive on it, So I can afford disabling the password expiration policy.

That’s about it for this post. Happy Tweaking!

Excel file does not open, Its stuck indefinitely in “opening in protected view” stage

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I downloaded an Excel file (It had the PowerPivot Model) from Internet on my Windows Server Dev Machine. When I tried opening that file on my machine it got stuck in the “Opening in protected View” stage:

excel opening in protected view message

I was able to solve the issue and I would document how I did that in this blog-post:

1. Go to START > Open Excel

2. Go to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings

excel 2010 trust center settings

3. In the Trust Center. Go to Protected View

Here you can disable the Protected View based on your needs.

Since I wanted to open a file that originated from Internet, I disabled “Protected View for files originating from the Internet”.

Clicked on OK.

4. Now go to File > Open that FILE!

Once you are done, You can enable the protected view. Important!

So That’s about it for this post, I hope it was helpful!

How to disable the password expiration policy in Windows Server 2008 R2 (Demo Machine) ?

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Before we begin, Please note that:

1) it’s applicable for your Demo Machine only. Or your Dev Machine. The reason I am documenting it that I do not want to change the password of Windows Server on which I have my Sharepoint BI dev environment Setup. It’s MY Dev Environment and I am NOT sharing it with other folks PLUS I do not anything sensitive on it, So I can afford disabling the password expiration policy.

2) This Blog Post will Show you step by step procedure to disable the password expiration policy IF your server is NOT a Domain Controller. If it’s a domain controller then the steps are different.

UPDATE: Find a blog post about disabling password expiration policy for Domain Controller: http://parasdoshi.com/2012/06/19/how-to-disable-password-expiration-for-windows-server-2008-r2-domain-controller/

Now, Let’s begin:

1. Go to Start, Administrative Tools, Local Security Policy

2. Under Security Settings, Select Account Policies

3. Click on Password Policy.

windows server disable password expiration policy

4. Change the Value of Maximum Password Age to “0”

windows server disable password expiration policy

5. Click on Apply.

That’s about it. You have disabled the password expiration on your Windows Server Demo machine (which is not a domain controller)

If you are searching for a resource that could help you disable the password expiration policy on windows Server (Domain Controller) then please refer: http://forums.iis.net/t/1148164.aspx

UPDATE: Find a blog post about disabling password expiration policy for Domain Controller: http://parasdoshi.com/2012/06/19/how-to-disable-password-expiration-for-windows-server-2008-r2-domain-controller/