FREE! That’s Right, I’m Giving Away MILLIONS of FREE Microsoft eBooks again! Including: Windows 10, Office 365, Office 2016, Power BI, Azure, Windows 8.1, Office 2013, SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, System Center, Cloud, SQL Server and more!
Who wants even MORE FREE EBOOKS and resources this year? If so, you’ve come to the right place as I’m once again kicking off my annual FREE MICROSOFT EBOOK GIVEAWAY extravaganza!
If you have been a follower of mine in the past, you know that several years ago I tried a simple concept: Let’s try giving away a bunch of free eBooks, reference guides, Step-By-Step Guides, and other informational resources to our customers and partners around the world. Needless to say, the concept was extremely the first year (over 1,000,000 FREE eBooks downloaded), and it has grown and grown over the past few years (over 3.5 Million downloaded two years ago and we surpassed that last year!) So, haw many FREE eBooks can we give away this year? Well, that’s completely up to you.
Before we get to this year’s list of FREE eBooks, a few answers to common questions I receive during my FREE EBOOK GIVEAWAY:
- How many can you download?
- ANSWER: As many as you want! This is a FREE eBook giveaway, so please download as many as interest you.
- Wow, there are a LOT listed here. Is there a way to download all of them at once?
- ANSWER: Yes, please see the note below on how to do this.
- Can I share a link to your post to let others know about this giveaway?
- ANSWER: Yes, please do share the good news with anyone you feel could benefit from this.
- I know you said they are “Free,” but what’s the catch?
- ANSWER: There is no catch. They really are FREE. This consider it a, “Thank you,” for being a reader of my blog and a customer or partner of Microsoft.
- Ok, so if they are free and you’re encouraging us to share this with others, can I post a link to your post here on sites like Reddit, FatWallet, and other deal share sites to let them know, or is that asking too much?
- ANSWER: Please do. In fact, I would encourage you to share a link to this post on any deal site you feel their users could benefit from the FREE eBooks and resources included below. Again, I WANT to give away MILLIONS of FREE eBooks!
- Are these “time-bombed” versions of the eBooks that stop working after a certain amount of time or reads?
- ANSWER: No, these are the full resources for you to use.
Ok, ready for some FREE eBooks? Below is the collection I am posting this year (which includes a ton of new eBooks & resources, as well as some of the favorites from last year):
- How to enable “Download All” for the list of FREE eBooks below and other FAQs
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Thank you again for being a reader of my Blog and I hope you find this year’s collection of FREE eBooks and other resources to be very helpful to you, your colleagues, friends, or family.
Thank you and have a wonderful day,
Eric Ligman - Follow me on TWITTER, LinkedIn, and Facebook
Director – Sales Excellence
Microsoft Corporation
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
Comments
- Anonymous
July 12, 2016
There are duplicate links in the 'Download All' txt file, and some of the DL's have indecipherable names and no file-type extension. - Anonymous
July 12, 2016
thanks ☺- Anonymous
July 15, 2016
You are welcome.
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July 13, 2016
Thanks for the excellent resource, Eric!Why did you go to great lengths to make this page look like some sort of cheap advertising site? Is there a joke here that I'm not seeing? Why make your site look like you are hawking some sort of crème to restore hair, increase your virility, or make one smarter?The books, if properly used, can indeed make one smarter, but come on, man, think design! :)- Anonymous
November 21, 2017
Cheap advertising site? That's being very generous. But at least we get free ebooks.... even if the page looks like a Pricewater House sweepstakes page, yet cheaper.
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July 13, 2016
Nothing for Exchange :-(- Anonymous
July 15, 2016
Hmmm... Looks like my Exchange books fell off the post. I will get them added back in. Not sure what happened there. Thanks for calling it out. - Anonymous
July 18, 2016
Thanks again for pointing that out. I have added Exchange eBooks to the list above.
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July 13, 2016
I couldn't find any books specifically for Exchange. Do you have any of these? Thank you again for this!- Anonymous
July 15, 2016
Hmmm... Looks like my Exchange books fell off the post. I will get them added back in. Not sure what happened there. Thanks for calling it out. - Anonymous
July 18, 2016
Thanks again for pointing that out. I have added Exchange eBooks to the list above.
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July 13, 2016
Can you put them on docs.com (which is by the way owned by Microsoft)- Anonymous
July 15, 2016
If you look in the FAQ I posted under the "Download All" post, one of the things I pointed out is that I intentionally do not post a ZIP file or single file download (such as on Docs.com) for the eBooks because I always ensure I honor the original publisher's rights to modify, update, edit, and/or remove their works that they have graciously shared with us. By me pointing directly to the eBooks themselves, if a publisher wants to correct an error in their eBook, append additional data, release an updated version etc., they can do so and re-publish, and my links will then surface the most up-to-date version of their works. If I were to publish a ZIP file or mirror of the eBooks somewhere, then the author's would lose their ability to update their works, and that does not honor the rights of the publisher to update their works as they see fit. As such, I will always provide the links to download the original works and have advised those who ask if they can share my links with others that sharing the links are fine, but sharing the eBook files themselves should not be done (as that would remove the publisher's rights to update their works).
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July 14, 2016
Great work, Thanks for the ebook- Anonymous
July 15, 2016
You are welcome.
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July 14, 2016
Thanks a lot!early christmas ;:-)- Anonymous
July 15, 2016
You are welcome.- Anonymous
July 17, 2016
This is cool! Thanks a lot. :-)
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July 15, 2016
Great idea!Are there other languages available?- Anonymous
July 27, 2016
I am not currently aware of other language versions of these books. I am sharing the original works in the formats and languages as they were made available.
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July 15, 2016
Tolle Idee, eBooks zu verschenken, aber warum keine in deutscher Sprache? - Anonymous
July 15, 2016
Thank you very much. From Honduras. Note. Do you have some books on software development? Web Development / software architecture. - Anonymous
July 16, 2016
Thanks :D - Anonymous
July 16, 2016
I get a kick out of how in college we would have dreaded having to read many of these books. But now that the knowledge therein results in more revenue yo us, people can't wait to download hundreds of books. - Anonymous
July 16, 2016
This is a great way to reach out to the IT community. Kudos! - Anonymous
July 16, 2016
Thank you very much! - Anonymous
July 17, 2016
I am able to download all with Jdownloader 2 (Beta-Version) just perfectly.Thanks alot for the free sharing of knowledge.By the way, a PDF called 'Windowstechnicalpreviewgq.pdf' seems to be offline. I can't estimate what Ebook that might be.- Anonymous
July 17, 2016
Might be 'Introducing Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview', but from what I see, the pdf's are called different than 'Windowstechnicalpreviewgq.pdf' - might be part of a Ebook bundle, which could explain why it's not in the Ebooks list on this site.
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July 17, 2016
How long the download work? I mean if I can wait for my new PC with the download? - Anonymous
July 18, 2016
Thanks a lot! My team found the Azure and Power BI books useful. - Anonymous
July 18, 2016
Hello, how about any .NET/Visual studio development books? Thanks - Anonymous
July 18, 2016
Nice. Very much appreciated. Good stuff. I like the office quick guides. - Anonymous
July 18, 2016
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July 18, 2016
A big load of thanks for the e-books! Will certainly help me and my company forward with SharePoint. - Anonymous
July 19, 2016
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August 27, 2016
I second this request. This would be extremely helpful!
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July 19, 2016
Thanks for the helpful resources Eric! :-) - Anonymous
July 19, 2016
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July 27, 2016
I made the corrections to that link late last week when it was brought to my attention so please try that one again. Apologies for the broken link originally.
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July 19, 2016
Thanks Eric - Anonymous
July 19, 2016
Fee things? Thank you : ) - Anonymous
July 19, 2016
Many thanks! These are really nice books, I will take a look on them.I don't want to be greedy, but by any chance you have anything on .NET or C# space? - Anonymous
July 19, 2016
Right place for Right peoples - Anonymous
July 19, 2016
Wonderfull Collection and selfless sharing! Million Thanks! - Anonymous
July 19, 2016
Would love if you could add for Big Data for Azure :) Thanks in advance :) - Anonymous
July 20, 2016
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July 20, 2016
Hey, great resource, am making use of the Office Quick Start Guides, Sql Server and Windows 10. is there nothing at all for Yammer? - Anonymous
July 20, 2016
No MIM/FIM/ILM/MIIS? :-( - Anonymous
July 20, 2016
Anything on Microsoft R? - Anonymous
July 20, 2016
Your link for "Exchange 2016 Step by Step for anyone" actually points to "Best Practices for Virtualizing & Managing Exchange 2013"- Anonymous
July 20, 2016
Thanks for the heads up on the incorrect link for this book. I have updated the link in the post. My apologies for the typo.
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July 20, 2016
The embedded link for "Administrating Skype for Business Server 2015 Step by Step for Anyone" need to be updated FYICurrent: http://ligman.me/29uHKKShould be: http://ligman.me/29uHKKV- Anonymous
July 20, 2016
Thanks for the heads up on the broken link for the Administering Skype for Business Server 2015 Step By Step for Anyone. I have updated the link in the post. My apologies for the typo.
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July 20, 2016
Is there anything for eDiscovery? We have one of our customers' legal department asking for help with it. - Anonymous
July 20, 2016
I would love to see a full user guide for office 2016 for Mac. - Anonymous
July 20, 2016
Could you give some indication of how long the offer will be available? I want to notify members of our computer club but not if it will end soon.Thank you. - Anonymous
July 20, 2016
Thank Eric Ligman,Your a legend - Anonymous
July 20, 2016
Amazing, thanks a lot Eric Ligman. - Anonymous
July 21, 2016
windowstechnicalpreviewqg.pdf is offline- Anonymous
July 27, 2016
I have updated the link, so please try that one again.
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July 21, 2016
Thanks Eric!!Could not find any for SharePoint 2016. :)Please add one :)- Anonymous
April 06, 2017
me neither. only 2013
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July 21, 2016
Thanks for sharing !!!from Cameroon - Anonymous
July 21, 2016
How can I download and save VID files - Anonymous
July 21, 2016
Thanks a Lot Mr. Eric my team in our school district are all excited about this. - Anonymous
July 21, 2016
Thanks for sharing. Are you going to add Dynamics NAV books at some point? - Anonymous
July 21, 2016
Any possibilities for 70-532 dumps? I know have asked more here :) - Anonymous
July 22, 2016
This is very very very wonderful - thanks so much! - Anonymous
July 23, 2016
Great idea to give away eBooks, but why not in German?- Anonymous
July 27, 2016
I am not currently aware of other language versions of these books. I am sharing the original works in the formats and languages as they were made available.
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July 24, 2016
Thank you for sharing good stuff.... Stay Blessed.... :) - Anonymous
July 25, 2016
Website is down?ligman.me - Anonymous
July 25, 2016
Is it just me, or does everyone get ERR_TIMED_OUT on every download?- Anonymous
July 25, 2016
Never mind, it works now... :)
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July 25, 2016
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July 25, 2016
I have an idea.In the past (in the VB6 age), Microsoft used to make documentation as CHM. (indexed and searchable content)It was very good. Easy to copy & paste. Easy to browser and search.I think CHM is much better than PDF. If Microsoft will generated these documentation (and other) as CHM, will be perfect.- Anonymous
July 25, 2016
Eh.. I found it.https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pakistan/2013/02/04/download-all-msdn-documentations-for-offline-access/Thnxxx
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July 26, 2016
Great collection! Thanks! - Anonymous
July 26, 2016
Thanks for sharing! - Anonymous
July 27, 2016
Hi Can you please share Data Science E Books- Anonymous
November 30, 2016
Eric, thank you so much. I am a Professor teaching in IT at a Community College. Can I download these ebooks and then share them with my students? Or can I only direct them to your website. Having found many links to Microsoft blogs where employees are sharing ebooks, they tend not to last very long, and if I assign the books to my students, and then they are not available... it just doesn't work.
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July 27, 2016
Is there a Power Point 2013 Keyboard shortcut? Also what about an Access 2016 Quick start guide? Thanks! - Anonymous
July 27, 2016
This is wonderful - thank you! A lot of great reading ahead. - Anonymous
July 27, 2016
Thanks for lot of books. please upload Biztalk Server 2010 books too... Thanks in advance. - Anonymous
July 28, 2016
Thank you very much for free ebook, can you also provide something related asp.net, C# - Anonymous
July 28, 2016
Why no books on Unix? - Anonymous
July 28, 2016
Thanks very much - Anonymous
July 28, 2016
Thanks!, but are there any other books about web development? - Anonymous
July 28, 2016
Thanks !! - Anonymous
July 29, 2016
Thanks very much, especially for the Powershell material! - Anonymous
July 30, 2016
thank you microsoft team for sharing such a grateful knowledge to all of us - Anonymous
July 31, 2016
Thank you very much!!! - Anonymous
July 31, 2016
Not seeing any O365 and Lync Ebooks, Will appreciate if you can upload some of them. - Anonymous
August 03, 2016
I know "beggars can't be choosers"... got any Visio eBooks? - Anonymous
August 03, 2016
Any books on SCOM? - Anonymous
August 05, 2016
Hi Eric,Is their any material for sccm12(system center configuration manager).Thank you in advance.Regards,KP - Anonymous
August 08, 2016
Hi,I am an author, writing books on how to develop applications for the .Net platform. Now that you are giving away free ebooks, what do you think is the future for authors like us. ThanksBharati - Anonymous
August 10, 2016
Awesome !!There isn´t book of C# ?I need book of C# :D - Anonymous
August 11, 2016
Are there any plans to place anything here specific to unit testing? - Anonymous
August 15, 2016
Should we download them NOW in case they´re not going to be online for a long term or can i relax and just safe the link?However, thanksalot for them tons of stuff ;) - Anonymous
August 15, 2016
Really appreciate all the information but one of the items I really want Dynamics CRM 2015 User Guide is not accessible. Can you update the link? - Anonymous
August 15, 2016
Please more security ebooks - Anonymous
August 16, 2016
Many thanks for the tremendous resource. There is a link of particular interest that is broken, however -- I can't get to Deploying Windows 10 in a School District. Is that still on offer? - Anonymous
August 16, 2016
First of all I would like to thank you for putting so much work into this, Eric :) This is incredible!But there are a couple of links that doesn't work: https://download.microsoft.com/download/2/7/1/27183A48-7EA1-4F17-8293-CA0877701BDC/Deploy-Windows-10-in-a-school-district.pdfhttp://news.microsoft.com/download/presskits/windows/docs/windowstechnicalpreviewqg.pdfhttp://download.microsoft.com/download/6/C/9/6C9AE639-A196-4B88-8BC0-A09CD8573A3C/5545_A01-Exploring-Windows-10-External-WSG.docxhttps://download.microsoft.com/download/6/0/0/6002A98C-E7DD-4793-97C2-FFAEBBC0BCEC/Microsoft%20Dynamics%20CRM%202015%20User%20Guide.docxhttps://download.microsoft.com/download/6/0/0/6002A98C-E7DD-4793-97C2-FFAEBBC0BCEC/eBooks%20and%20Quick%20ref%20cards.zipI'm especially interested in reading "Deploy-Windows-10-in-a-school-district" so if you get the time to look at the broken links, it would be much appreciated. - Anonymous
August 16, 2016
thank you very much :p - Anonymous
August 16, 2016
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August 17, 2016
Thanks, Eric. I noticed that only a couple of the titles dealt with security. Any plans to release some more of these in the future?Terry - Anonymous
August 25, 2016
Thanks so much this is great! - Anonymous
September 20, 2016
Hi Eric,Is it possible for you to add Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 or higher version of the same eBooks. That obviously, would be of great help.Thanks,Gulshan - Anonymous
September 20, 2016
Superb initiative, open, educational and currency/ authors rights' maintained with links rather than "Dump em all" approach - thank you Eric.We will post your links on our website also. - Anonymous
September 27, 2016
Just wanted to let you know some of the download links are not working currently:Dynamics CRM eBook & Quick Card CollectionDeploy Windows 10 in a School DistrictDynamics CRM 2015 User Guide - Anonymous
September 28, 2016
Mr. Ligman, Thanks for the loot! - Anonymous
October 31, 2016
thank you very much it is very useful to me - Anonymous
November 04, 2016
Do you have any references on Dynamics AX? - Anonymous
November 13, 2016
Hi,I am looking for the book of Security fundamentals 98-367.ThanksKaran - Anonymous
November 17, 2016
Can you please add books on Office 365 Development? - Anonymous
December 18, 2016
Exelente aporte, muchas gracias y los mejores deseos para el nuevo año. Gustavo RazaEcuador - Anonymous
December 28, 2016
Thank you very much Eric for this. Excellence resource! - Anonymous
January 02, 2017
Yikes! This is supposed to be a zip file, but it has a .txt extension and when I try to download in Edge, I get an error message saying it can't be downloaded..."Dynamics CRM eBook & Quick Card Collection" - Anonymous
January 18, 2017
Thanks a ton for sharing these Ebooks. Certainly this will help me and my fellow colleagues to widen their knowledge base. The books on SharePoint and SQL Server are just amazing. Looking forward to some material focussing on programming standards in Visual Studio 2015 and SharePoint 2016 Best Business Practices. - Anonymous
January 21, 2017
Thanks a lot for offer to download free books.I have chosen mostly Quick start guides :) - Anonymous
February 01, 2017
Thanks a lot Eric! - Anonymous
February 04, 2017
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February 08, 2017
Nothing for Dot Net programming - Anonymous
July 17, 2017
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July 17, 2017
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August 01, 2017
Unfortunately nothing for Dynamics AX or Dynamics 365 ;( - Anonymous
November 24, 2017
All of these ebooks are very usefull for me to learn at home. Thank you very much.