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Help Desk Essentials
- Categories:
- Infrastructure and Networking Cloud
- Level:
- Fundamentals
- Code:
- QAHLPDSKESS
- Exam:
- Not Applicable
Overview
This three day QA authored course is designed primarily for those who are starting out in the IT support career. Working on a help desk or service desk, this course will provide a strong foundation for what employees need to understand from both a process and technical viewpoint across both on premise and cloud based solutions. The technical elements are based on Windows 11, Server 2022, and Microsoft cloud solutions.
This course is also applicable to learners using earlier operating systems.
Prerequisites
This is an entry level course so no pre-requisites other than being familiar generally with the Windows operating system and experience of a help desk or service desk environment. There will be opportunities for learners to practise what they are learning and they will be encouraged to get involved with discussions and sharing their own experiences. They will also be regularly asked to consider, in certain scenarios what information should be gathered to aid them in the early steps of troubleshooting.
Target Audience
This course is intended for those starting out in IT working on a help desk or service desk in a primarily Microsoft environment.
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Learning outcomes
- Become familiar with service management as far as it concerns a help desk
- Understand the components in a modern IT environment
- Look at troubleshooting methods and tools
- Understand the basics of networking
- Understand on premise and cloud based users, groups and resource access
- Understand on premise and cloud based device administration
- Understand essential security guidelines for IT
Course outline
Module 1 Overview of Service Management for help desk
This module introduces concept of Service Management and the elements relevant to the help desk.
- What is Service Management?
- What is the purpose of a help desk?
- Service Management for help desk.
- Exercise - Logging calls
Module 2 Overview of the modern IT environment
Here, learners will be asked to think about their own IT environment, and to have a birds eye view of what is under control of IT. They will consider:
- Hardware
- Software
- Network Infrastructure
- Data Storage and Management
- Security Measures
- Backup and Disaster Recovery
- Cloud Computing
- Role Based Access Control concepts
There is no exercise for this module, instead a number of discussions around understanding the learners own infrastructure.
Module 3 Tools for troubleshooting and support
- Troubleshooting steps
- Troubleshooting tools – Windows
- Troubleshooting tools – Other operating systems
- Remote Tools
- Exercise: Using troubleshooting tools
Module 4 Basics of networking for a help desk
- Understanding client networking and settings
- Understanding client networking
- Understanding name resolution
- Exercise: Troubleshooting networking issues and name resolution
Module 5 Understanding user and group administration for a help desk
- Introduction to users and groups
- User and group account creation
- Managing user accounts
- Managing access to resources
- Recognising sign in issues
- Exercise Creating and managing users, groups and access to resources
Module 6 Understanding device management for a help desk
- Overview of devices managed by a help desk
- Understanding Group Policy and how to troubleshoot
- Understanding Intune device management and how to troubleshoot
- Exercise: Device Administration
Module 7 Security in the help desk
- Why is this so important for the helpdesk?
- What are the types of attack?
- What are the standards?
- How does this affect the helpdesk?
- Configuring Security in Windows
- Overview of Microsoft 365 security and compliance
- Exercise: Reviewing security features for on premises and cloud
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