Last summer I put up a post that offered a collection of free Microsoft eBooks across a variety of topics and the response was incredible. Because of the phenomenal response, I followed it up with a second post that contained another set of free eBooks for people to download. After these posts went live, over 1,000,000 free eBooks were downloaded by people around the world!
UPDATE: We’ve surpassed 3.5 MILLION downloads! (Click to read more)
Well, I thought I would once again put together another new collection of absolutely FREE Microsoft eBooks for all of you to access and download to use in your quest for information, resources, knowledge, etc. As with the past collections, these eBooks are completely FREE, they are not time-bombed, there is no catch, and yes, please let your friends, family, colleagues, or anyone else that you think would benefit from these know that they are available here and to come download the ones they are interested in. I’d love to give away another 1,000,000 free eBooks again this round, so spread the word and please enjoy these resources from Microsoft to you.
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Office & Office 365
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 Deployment guide for Office 2013 EPUB MOBI |
 Microsoft Office 365 for professionals and small businesses: Help and How To EPUB MOBI |
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SharePoint
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 Explore SharePoint 2013 EPUB MOBI |
 Deployment guide for SharePoint 2013 EPUB MOBI |
 Test Lab Guide: eBook for SharePoint Server 2013 Intranet and Team Sites EPUB MOBI DOC |
 Create a Balanced Scorecard (SharePoint Server 2010) EPUB MOBI |
 SharePoint Server for Business Intelligence EPUB MOBI |
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SQL Server
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 5 Tips for a Smooth SSIS Upgrade to SQL Server 2012 EPUB MOBI |
 A Hitchiker’s Guide to Microsoft StreamInsight Queries EPUB MOBI |
 Data Mining Extensions (DMX) Reference EPUB MOBI |
 Data Quality Services EPUB MOBI |
 High Availability Solutions EPUB MOBI |
 Master Data Services EPUB MOBI |
 Monitor and Tune for Performance EPUB MOBI |
 Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) Reference EPUB MOBI |
 SQL Server Distributed Replay EPUB MOBI |
 Transact-SQL Data Definition Language (DDL) Reference EPUB MOBI |
 XQuery Language Reference EPUB MOBI |
 Extracting and Loading SharePoint Data in SQL Server Integration Services EPUB MOBI |
 Integration Services: Extending Packages with Scripting EPUB MOBI |
 Multidimensional Model Programming EPUB MOBI |
 Optimized Bulk Loading of Data into Oracle EPUB MOBI |
 Planning Disaster Recovery for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode EPUB MOBI |
 SQL Server 2012 Tutorials: Reporting Services EPUB MOBI |
 SQL Server 2012 Tutorials: Writing Transact-SQL Statements EPUB MOBI |
 SQL Server Community FAQs Manual EPUB MOBI |
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System Center
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 Cmdlet Reference for App Controller in System Center 2012 SP1 EPUB MOBI |
 Technical Documentation for System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager EPUB MOBI |
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Visual Studio
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 Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes EPUB MOBI |
 Dependency Injection with Unity |
 Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Enterprise Library (Second Edition) |
 Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012 |
 Upgrade Team Foundation Server 2012: the ultimate upgrade guide EPUB MOBI |
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Web Development
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 ASP.NET Multi-Tier Windows Azure Application Using Storage Tables, Queues, and Blobs EPUB MOBI |
 ASP.NET Web Deployment using Visual Studio EPUB MOBI |
 Developing Modern Mobile Web Apps EPUB MOBI |
 The Entity Framework 4.0 and ASP.NET Web Forms – Getting Started EPUB MOBI |
 Getting Started with the Entity Framework 4.1 using ASP.NET MVC EPUB MOBI |
 Project Silk: Client-Side Web Development for Modern Browsers |
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Windows
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 Administrator’s Guide for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.0 EPUB MOBI |
 Administrator’s Guide for Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring 1.0 EPUB MOBI |
 Administrator’s Guide for Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) 7 EPUB MOBI |
 Administrator’s Guide for Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) 8.0 EPUB MOBI |
 Administrator’s Guide for Microsoft User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) 1.0 EPUB MOBI |
 Developing an end-to-end Windows Store app using C++ and XAML: Hilo |
 Developing an end-to-end Windows Store app using JavaScript: Hilo |
 Prism for the Windows Runtime: Developing a Windows Store business app using C#, XAML, and Prism |
 Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript EPUB MOBI |
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Windows Azure
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 Autoscaling Application Block and Transient Fault Handling Application Block Reference EPUB MOBI |
 Create Your First Application: Node.js and Windows Azure EPUB MOBI |
 Developing Multi-tenant Applications for the Cloud on Windows Azure (3rd Edition) |
 Drupal on Windows Azure EPUB MOBI |
 Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing: A journey into high scalability, availability, and maintainability with Windows Azure |
 Migrating Data-Centric Applications to Windows Azure EPUB MOBI |
 Moving Applications to the Cloud on Windows Azure (3rd Edition) |
 Using Windows Azure Mobile Services to Cloud-Enable your iOS Apps EPUB MOBI |
 Using Windows Azure Mobile Services to Cloud-Enable Your Windows Phone 8 Apps EPUB MOBI |
 Using Windows Azure Mobile Services to Cloud-Enable your Windows Store Apps in C# EPUB MOBI |
 Using Windows Azure Mobile Services to Cloud-Enable Your Windows Store Apps in JavaScript EPUB MOBI |
 Windows Azure and SQL Database Tutorials EPUB MOBI |
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Windows Server
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 A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control, Second Edition |
 Introducing Windows Server 2012 EPUB MOBI |
 TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows |
I hope you find these resources to be helpful in learning about and using the various solutions and technologies referenced. I’d love to hear your feedback on these, so please feel free to give me your input. Also, be sure to check back over the next week or so, as I may possibly be adding some additional ones on here.
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Thanks again for being a reader of my blog!
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Thank you
thanks a lot, Eric !
Thanks for this.
Many Thanks, Eric!
Thanks for sharing this great collection of Microsoft eBooks 🙂
Thanks for the feedback, David, Jeff, Glenn, Wade, and Mark. Glad you found the eBooks useful. Please share this post with your peers and colleagues so they can take advantage of them too. 🙂
Great Collection. Thanx you very much.
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stefan
Awesome yet again 🙂 Many thanks
Any books for exchange and lync?
Thank you very much once again, for sharing this Eric.
Fantastic collection, thank you for sharing Eric 🙂
Thanks You…
excellent tahnks
Thanks buddy!
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Thanks Eric, much appreciated
Thnks Eric
Great stuff Eric, thank you very much for sharing!
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It looks like Christmas came earlier this year 🙂
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Thank you so much Erick! This material is awesome!
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Thanks a Ton!
Excellent
Good option to get more updated
Thank you…..great post by MSDN
thank you for sharing
Thank you Eric.
Many thanks for sharing these, it's really appreciated, and great to see many of the books are available in numerous formats, too!
Hi,
Thank you !
😀
Thanks a lot Eric
Sweet! First time I read your blog and if this is the kind of stuff you do you've got new reader!
Thanks for these
thanks for the great collection
Thank you so very much!
Brilliant, thanks for sharing!
Thank you Todd and Eric
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you!
Awesome – thanks!
I appreciate the offering. Any chance a PowerShell book will make your list soon?
Awesome stuff thanks for sharing 🙂
Please advise of a good epub reader for windows 8
Great Collection! Thanx you very much.
Brilliant. Thank you very much.
Thank you…downloaded few of them.
Much appreciated.
Prism for the Windows Runtime
Really? The easy way to help the NSA?
/jk
Where's the "Download all" link? 🙂 It'd be great to have a .zip file with everything.
Superb! Thank you, I will share this with colleagues.
Thank you!
Thanks you. it is fantastic to have collection of all technical books at one place.
Superb!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you
I wish I had 2 extra hands so I could give this post 4 thumbs up!
Thank you.
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Thank you
Thanks for this collection…
Many Thanks
Thank you. Very much use full collection.
Thanks Eric..
Hi Eric LigMan,
Thanks for sharing Collections.
Regards,
Srinivas Sriramoju
WOW…thanks for this!
Thanks Eric …. Thank for the valuable collection….:)
Thank you Very much……….
Excellent stuff. thanks a lot.
Excellent.
Thanks you so much for sharing this valuable documents…
Thank you very much 🙂
谢谢
Its really a huge collection and allows us to choose from what we want to go for.
Thank you Eric for making it available for us.
Dear Mr. Eric,
Thanks a lot. I am re-sharing your post to all my Indian friends, dear ones & beloved ones who are unable to buy and read this books having ability to read but not having sufficient INR with them.
Thanks a lot. Nature bless you and Nature bless all who agreed to share this knowledge.
This is Phadke S. N. from India.
City: Pune State: Maharashtra Country: India. Some call it Bharat. Some call it Hindustan. I call it mother land.
Excellent stuff, thank you very much. (and I have spread the good word amongst my fellow developpers 🙂 )
Thank you very much!
Thanks so much for this great effort and sharing eBooks for FREE. Awesome
Many thanks ideed 🙂
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks very much
Thanks a lot!!! 🙂
Thank you
Thanks a Lot Sir
Great collection, thanks Eric!
Thank you so very much!!
Thanks a lot Eric for the wonderful collection of ebooks.
Thank you
Keep em Coming! Thanks so much …
Thank you so much for providing this collection. It is a great resource
Thank you so much, Eric! These are really helpful!
Great job man! Thank you a lot!
Danke!
Thank you very! More books, do have C# for windows form application?
Thank you sir!
Thanks…!!!
Thank you!.
Thanks a lot! Appreciate awesome work!
Eric, thanks. I just blogged about your summer reading treat!
WIth EPUB, MOBI format, this is too good….
Thanks so much! I know what I am reading tonight…..
but i need word press books
Thank you for sharing
Very helpful, Fantastic collection, thank for sharing Eric.
Also I am looking for eBooks on InforPath 2010 and InforPath 2013. Please help me to get the link.
Thanks in Advanced
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing Eric.
Thanks so much, Eric. 🙂
Thanks
Thanks Eric
Thank you
Thanks a Million!!
awesome, eric. Thanks alot
Great, thank you!
Fantastic! Thank you.
How can i download the Ebooks in other languages, may be in German!?
Great, thanks!
thanks!
Hi!
I work for a company called Web Cloud Solutions which provide Office 365 with SharePoint in the cloud integration and solutions- and these books are going to really help me build on industry best practices!
thanks,
Tony.
Excelente
Many thanks.
Hi Eric, very appreciate and many thanks on sharing such good collection (eBooks) 😉
Please share more if possible ^^
thanks you..!!
You are a rockstar..!!
splendid! many thanks!
Thank you so much….but it should have come earlier long back (5 years back!!!)
anyway … Thanks again…
Prashanth Venkataswamy
Thank you for sharing the ebooks.
Awesome Sauce 🙂 !!
Thank you Eric
Hello, is these available in German? My English is very Bad to understand for technical English.
thanks
Blaubaer
Many thanks
thanks for sharing ..
Thank you so much…
Thanks a lot 🙂
Thanks for the great feedback, everyone! Happy to hear that they are helpful for so many of you. Enjoy. 🙂
@ Prashanth – One slight problem with that suggestion… These weren't written 5 years back. Glad you can use them now though.
@ Blaubaer & Pipeuch – I'm not aware of hem being available in German. You might want to download them and run them through http://www.BingTranslator.com to translate them for you into German. Sorry I don't have a better answer for you.
@ Praneeth – I'm not familiar with any at this time. If I find some, maybe I'll put together another post in the future. Thanks for the suggestion.
@ Villaflores – Not familiar with any currently. If I find some, I'll see about adding them to a future post.
@ Kevin Weilbacher – Thanks for sharing the news with your readers!
@ Phadke & Cardboardbox – Thank you very much for sharing the post with others! I appreciate it and hope that they will be able to use these as well.
@ DreamensioN – LOVE the comment! 🙂
@ Kevin Knox – Not familiar with any currently. If I find some, I'll see about adding them to a future post.
@ Peter Crook – There are several in the Windows 8 Store. Try the search function and they'll show up.
@ Sitaram – I have some Lync books posted in one of my earlier free eBooks posts: http://ligman.me/MVECGM
Thanks Eric these are awesome =)
Sharing is Caring.. I thank you for this!
thanx a lot!
Awesome.
Thanks .
Thank you so much Eric, I appreciate the opportunity
Thank you
Hats off for your effort of collecting such a great stuff. Thumbs up.
Thanks mate 🙂
Excellent… Thanks a ton…
Thank you.
Thank you, very much!
Are they avaliable in French, too?
Looking for some CRM 2011 ebooks…:)
Hi the pdf file for the "Technical Documentation for System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager" appears to have become corrupt and once downloaded is failing to open
Thank You…!!!
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Thank you 🙂
Thank you
Thank you Eric… This collection of eBooks is fantastic… Much appreciated
Nice!!!!
Great Collection! I would like to see more books for the user, rather than for the developer. How about a Windows 8 Power User book, like the Windows 7 Power User book?
Keep up the good work!
Thanks a lot!
Awesome! Thanks muchly.
Awesome.. could we have Forefront collection as well !!
Absolutely madness.. massive knowledge cost only few bits and bytes.
Im occupied for the whole month. Thanks mate.
Thanks for sharing!
Heard about this from MJF. Thank you so much, Eric. Much appreciated!
Thank you
Thank you
Great collection. Thanks Eric.
Thank you for sharing this fantastic collection.
Thanks!
Whoa~~~ Thanks a million!
Thank you!
Thanks, Much appreciated
Marvelous Collection!!! Thank You…
Thankx
Excellent….From Rajib
Thanks You very much!!
Very excellent, Thanks
Thanks Eric 🙂 great and useful colletions.Can you please add windows phone development e books?
Thanks mate. Im occupied for the whole month including today ^_^
Great stuff!
Very nice post!
Thanks 🙂
Awesome…
Thank you very much… ^_^
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Thanks and appreciate it…
Thanks a Lot !! Eric.
Thank you folk
many thanks for this collection, great!
Thanks a lot!!!!
Thanks
Thanks
thanks
Good Collection. Thank You…
Thank you very much for providing wonderful collection……..
Much thanks !!for that collection!
Really very useful resources
No words to say thank you!
Awesome! Thanks Eric!
Thanks To u Eric
excellent tahnks
Sharing knowledge without a price is one of the most gracious human acts!
Thank you!
Danke.
Thank you kindly. Got any literature on fixing the Windows 7 Backup and Restore? It;s giving thousands of users problems!
Gracias por compartir estos magníficos libros.
THANKS FROM TEHRAN
thanks for all these stuff
more please !
Thank you … from Berlin
Thanks a lot, Eric. This is very valuable.
Thank you..
Thank you
Greate Job an appreciate your help
Thank you so much
Thx (:
thanks
Hy Eric,
i wanna say thank you for the job you do.
It gives me a lot, helps me understanding technologies and doing a good business.
Great go on if possible
Holger Sinn
Great eBooks.. Thanks
Dhanwaad (Thank You) 🙂
great
Very Much Thankfull To u
Many many thanks Eric this is going to be very helpful
Hi Eric,
Thanks for providing such a huge collection of Free Microsoft Ebooks. Could you please provide some helpful ebooks on BizTalk Server 2010/2013.
@Shuvendu – Glad you like them. I have posted all of the ones I am aware of to date. There are several books available currently on BizTalk Server, even if not free. If others become available that I am aware of, I'll post about them in the future.
excellent tahnks
Thanks!! they are very interesting, I will share them with my colleagues
Thank you Eric for the items
Is there a form to search for titles / subjects?
Thank you very much Eric!
Thanks a lot for great ebooks download hub. Please include Biztalk Server 2010 books as well.
Hello, Do you have any book for SharePoint Online in Office 365 ?
Thank you for all the useful information and reading material!