Microsoft Azure Essentials: Free E-Book Series

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1/17/2024

This article lists a series of free e-books provided by Microsoft. The Microsoft Azure Essentials series of books began publication in 2015. There have been four books so far. This article will be updated with new titles as they appear.

Books

	Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure Michael S. Collier and Robin E. Shahan February 2015 246 pages “The “Microsoft Azure Essentials” series helps you advance your technical skills with Microsoft Azure. “Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure” introduces developers and IT professionals to the wide range of capabilities in Azure. The authors—both Microsoft MVPs in Azure—present conceptual and how-to content for seven key areas and describe management tools and business cases.“ Download: PDF, EPUB, Mobi for Kindle
	Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Automation Michael McKeown March 2015 112 pages “The “Microsoft Azure Essentials” series helps you advance your technical skills with Microsoft Azure. “Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Automation” will help IT pros and Windows PowerShell developers understand the core concepts around Azure Automation. Using a highly scalable workflow execution environment, Azure Automation allows you to orchestrate frequent deployment and life cycle management tasks using runbooks based on Windows PowerShell Workflow functionality.” Download: PDF, EPUB, Mobi for Kindle
	Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Machine Learning Jeff Barnes April 2015 237 pages “This third ebook in the “Microsoft Azure Essentials” series introduces Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, a service that a developer can use to build predictive analytics models (using training datasets from a variety of data sources) and then easily deploy those models for consumption as cloud web services. The ebook presents an overview of modern data science theory and principles, the associated workflow, and then covers some of the more common machine learning algorithms in use today.” Download: PDF, EPUB, Mobi for Kindle
	Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Web Apps for Developers Rick Rainey June 2015 115 pages ”The “Microsoft Azure Essentials” series helps you advance your technical skills with Microsoft Azure. “Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Web Apps for Developers” focuses on providing essential information about developing web applications hosted on Azure Web Apps. It is written with the developer who has experience using Visual Studio and the .NET Framework in mind. If Azure Web Apps is new to you, this book is for you. If you have experience developing for Azure Web Apps, this book is for you, too, because there are features and tools discussed in this text that are new to the platform.” Download: PDF, EPUB, Mobi for Kindle
	Microsoft Azure Essentials Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure Carl Rabeler June 2016 161 pages ”Part of the “Microsoft Azure Essentials” series, this ebook helps SQL Server database users understand Microsoft’s offering for SQL Server in Azure. Learn how SQL Server in Azure is similar to SQL Server in an on-premises environment, and how they are different. The author, a content lead for Azure.com, walks you through the steps of getting started with SQL Server in an Azure virtual machine and with Azure SQL Database.” Download: PDF, EPUB, Mobi for Kindle