How to Signup for Free Pluralsight courses for MSDN Subscribers

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How to Signup for Free Pluralsight courses for MSDN Subscribers

If you are an IT Professional, chances are high that you might already be aware of Pluralsight online courses. They are a global leader in high-quality online training resource for both Developers and IT Professionals alike. Their online training library gives access to IT Professionals & Developers everywhere with instant access to a rich collection of online training courses. Most of the trainers are well experienced and they deliver world class training. Now, that being said, in this post, we will talk about how to signup for free Pluralsight courses for MSDN subscribers.

For the folks who have an active MSDN subscription, they are entitled to a 6-month free access to Pluralsight courses. Eligible subscribers receive up to 45 courses, depending on their subscription level

The free Pluralsight course benefits are as follows:

12-month 45-course Pluralsight subscription

· Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN

· Visual Studio Enterprise – annual

· MSDN Platforms

12-month 30-course Pluralsight subscription

· Visual Studio Professional – annual

· Visual Studio Professional with MSDN

· Visual Studio Test Professional with MSDN

Note: MSDN subscriptions offered through MPN, BizSpark, DreamSpark, MCT Developer Software, and Services, and MCT Software and Services are not eligible for the Pluralsight benefit.

The courses available depends on the Visual Studio subscription level.

In addition, Visual Studio subscribers qualify for a special 30% discount on an individual annual or annual plus subscription to the entire Pluralsight library.

The benefit is available through November 17, 2016.

If you go to this link, you would notice an error message with “Page Not Found” in the description.

See below:

At the time of writing this, these are the options through which the free course benefits is working.

As per this support article, you have the following options:

MSDN subscribers:

Start at your MSDN portal, http://aka.ms/mymsdnbenefits.
Find Pluralsight and click ‘Activate your Pluralsight benefit’
Review benefit information and course catalog, then click “Active your Pluralsight benefit”.
You’ll be redirected to Pluralsight for registration and will receive an email with your login information after you’ve registered.

Visual Studio Enterprise-annual and Visual Studio Professional-annual subscribers:

Log into my.visualstudio.com.
Click on ‘Activate’ on the benefit tile.
You’ll be redirected to Pluralsight for registration and will receive an email with your login information after you’ve registered.

Once you choose the option which is applicable for you, it takes to this landing page

Click on “Get Code”

Then click on “Activate“

That’s it, you are good to go! Happy Learning!

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