free e-books on a variety of microsoft tech

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Lync	Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Step by Step for Anyone
Office	Deployment guide for Office 2013 First Look: Microsoft Office 2010 Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime Microsoft Office 365 for professionals and small businesses: Help and How To Security and Privacy for Microsoft Office 2010 Users
SharePoint	Explore SharePoint 2013 Deployment guide for SharePoint 2013 Create a Balanced Scorecard Configure Kerberos Authentication for SharePoint 2010 Products SharePoint Server for Business Intelligence Get started with SharePoint Server 2010 Deployment guide for SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010 Profile synchronization guide for SharePoint Server 2010 Remote BLOB storage for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Governance guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Business continuity management for SharePoint Server 2010 Technical reference for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
SQL Server	5 Tips for a Smooth SSIS Upgrade to SQL Server 2012 A Hitchiker's Guide to Microsoft StreamInsight Queries Books Online: Backup and Restore of SQL Server Databases Books Online: Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) Reference Books Online: Data Mining Extensions (DMX) Reference Books Online: Data Quality Services Books Online: High Availability Solutions Books Online: Master Data Services Books Online: Monitor and Tune for Performance Books Online: Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) Reference Books Online: SQL Server Distributed Replay Books Online: Transact-SQL Data Definition Language (DDL) Reference Books Online: Transact-SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML) Reference Books Online: XQuery Language Reference Extracting and Loading SharePoint Data in SQL Server Integration Services Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services Capacity Guidelines Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Solutions Guide for High Availability and Disaster Recovery Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional Performance and Operations Guide Optimized Bulk Loading of Data into Oracle Planning Disaster Recovery for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode QuickStart: Learn DAX Basics in 30 Minutes SQL Server 2012 Tutorials: Analysis Services - Data Mining SQL Server 2012 Tutorials: Analysis Services - Multidimensional Modeling SQL Server 2012 Tutorials: Analysis Services - Tabular Modeling SQL Server 2012 Tutorials: Reporting Services SQL Server 2012 Tutorials: Writing Transact-SQL Statements SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Technical Guide SQL Server Community FAQs Manual
Visual Studio	Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Upgrade Team Foundation Server 2012: the ultimate upgrade guide
Web Development	Deploying an ASP.NET Web Application to a Hosting Provider using Visual Studio Developing Modern Mobile Web Apps The Entity Framework 4.0 and ASP.NET Web Forms – Getting Started Getting Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms (Beta) Getting Started with the Entity Framework 4.1 using ASP.NET MVC Intro to ASP.NET MVC 4 with Visual Studio (Beta) Introducing ASP.NET Web Pages 2 Project Silk: Client-Side Web Development for Modern Browsers
Windows	Deploying Windows 7: Essential Guidance Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Windows Azure	Autoscaling Application Block and Transient Fault Handling Application Block Reference Building Elastic and Resilient Cloud Applications - Developer's Guide to the Enterprise Library 5.0 Integration Pack for Windows Azure Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure Create Your First Application - Node.js and Windows Azure Drupal on Windows Azure Migrating Data-Centric Applications to Windows Azure Moving Applications to the Cloud, 2nd Edition Using Windows Azure Mobile Services to Cloud-Enable your iOS Apps Using Windows Azure Mobile Services to Cloud-Enable Your Windows Phone 8 Apps Using Windows Azure Mobile Services to Cloud-Enable your Windows Store Apps in C# Using Windows Azure Mobile Services to Cloud-Enable Your Windows Store Apps in JavaScript Windows Azure and SQL Database Tutorials Windows Azure Prescriptive Guidance Windows Azure Service Bus Reference
Windows Phone	Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App that Connects to the Cloud Programming Windows Phone 7
Windows Server	A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control, Second Edition Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 Introducing Windows Server 2012 Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions: From the Desktop to the Datacenter, Second Edition