All,
I'm embarrassed to report the following... After nearly pulling the plug on this POC using windows server, i decided to start from the very beginning, basically "is it plugged in". While doing so, i discovered that I had fat fingered ip addresses in the Host File, which led to issues with the installation. After correcting the host IP addresses, i was able to successfully reinstall HDP common, Hive, Oozie, HBase.
Configuration:
2 windows servers (01 and 02)
Options: HDP Common, HBase, Hive and Oozie with MSSQL Metastore ~could never get DerbyServer to work
Modified Hive-Site.xml
Set dataNucleus.autoCreateSchema and dataNucleus.validateTables to True
Note: While monitoring the Hive and Hiveserver2 test, i noticed the test was blocked by an open connection from hive. It was an idle connection that prevented the hive test from creating the missing tables, like TBL_Privs.