HDInsight powershell issues.

[wenming]

• The GA of HDInsight caused the .NET Map/Reduce demo to stop working. We really need to correct the demo in regards to the NuGet package versions and the correct addressed (I have a working example that I can send). • I added Hive examples based on Wenming's car stats analysis and the Hive tutorial in the Windows Azure website. • I added a Mahout example based on Wenming's recommender job demo. However the recommender job takes a lot of time to execute, so it's better to run it ahead of time, and only show the results.  Lab • There were a few issues that prevented some attendees from running the lab o The prerequisites specify you can use Windows 7, but I encountered more than one attendee that couldn't use their Windows 7 because it had PowerShell 2 (Windows 8 has PowerShell 3), and it did not support the HDInsight cmdlets. This should be verified. o HDInsight is not available on all regions. Attendees that already had two storage accounts in other regions were not able to perform the lab (they didn't want to remove any of the storage accounts, because that would require them to delete some of the VMs) o The Powershell cmdlets require a Windows machine, and most attendees did not have one. We suggested they use the Windows Server VM from day 1. o In the WordCount sample, step 5 is incorrect. The "powershell" command should be removed from the beginning of the command text. o Regarding exercise 4, although it is very useful to try out PowerQuery, you should take into account that most attendees do not have Windows (and therefore no Office). In addition, I suggest placing a link to the PowerQuery download page instead of having people searching for it.

[hotcan]

We can just follow the HOL.md to show a very simple demo with Powershell

[JohnWintellect]

Closing as ancient