Effective Help Desk Ticket Categories


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Want to lower support ticket cost, improve first contact resolution (FCR), and improve reporting? If you said yes, then Effective Help Desk Ticket Categories is for you! Is this a long-winded book full of unproven theories? No. This book gets right to the point with a detailed step-by-step guide based on 20 years of successful ticket category implementation projects. It designed for busy professionals at call centers, service desks and of course help desks. Is this book just for system engineers? Absolutely not! The guide is for everyone that works with support tickets. If you are a director, project manager or developer, this book will help improve your process. Why do I need this book? With our help, your project will be successful! Your final ticket classification design will be geared to productivity gains, not just a ticket filing system. Your project will save time and money! We provide time-saving quick-start templates and discuss how to maximize your resolution tools to close tickets faster. What is in the book? First, we explain what ticket classification is, why we use it, and the significant benefits. Then we identify project resources to engage early in the project and the ticket classification process. After that, we provide you a step-by-step quick start guide to get your ticket classification project up and running. Following that we expand on the quick start guide with a detailed explanation of each step including the most popular templates. Finally, we include a glossary of frequently used terms. Once implemented most teams will see significant improvements in the following areas. Cost savings - Cost per call, reduced escalation costs. Improved incident resolution rates. Major Incident Management MTTR reduction. Issue avoidance - better problem management inputs. Enterprise reporting maturity. Agent training improvements.




FBI Computers


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Network World


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For more than 20 years, Network World has been the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for network and IT executives responsible for the digital nervous systems of large organizations. Readers are responsible for designing, implementing and managing the voice, data and video systems their companies use to support everything from business critical applications to employee collaboration and electronic commerce.




Professional Workflow in SharePoint 2010


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SharePoint MVPs offer practical WF4 guidance for SharePoint 2010 developers With the new Workflow Foundation 4 (WF4) toolkit in SharePoint 2010, companies have new ways to build custom solutions for common or frequent business processes. This unique book is packed with instructions and tips that show you how. You'll use WF4 to create and implement office-practical apps such as expense report approvals, RFPs, sale pipeline management, and more. The book also covers how to design custom activities with SharePoint Designer 2010. Explains how to build business solutions using the Workflow Foundation 4 toolkit in SharePoint 2010 Shows even non-IT readers how to create and implement processes such as sales pipeline management, creating and managing RFPs, setting up a conference room scheduling solution across a multi-national company, and more Explores the basics vital to all process design: system analysis, researching requirements, and basic design considerations Includes a SharePoint 2007 template for Training and Scheduling; the book walks you through how to upgrade that to 2010 and extend it with new features Create the processes your business needs with SharePoint 2010's new Workflow 4 and this practical guide.




Networking For Dummies


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Set up a secure network at home or the office Fully revised to cover Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019, this new edition of the trusted Networking For Dummies helps both beginning network administrators and home users to set up and maintain a network. Updated coverage of broadband and wireless technologies, as well as storage and back-up procedures, ensures that you’ll learn how to build a wired or wireless network, secure and optimize it, troubleshoot problems, and much more. From connecting to the Internet and setting up a wireless network to solving networking problems and backing up your data—this #1 bestselling guide covers it all. Build a wired or wireless network Secure and optimize your network Set up a server and manage Windows user accounts Use the cloud—safely Written by a seasoned technology author—and jam-packed with tons of helpful step-by-step instructions—this is the book network administrators and everyday computer users will turn to again and again.




Networking All-in-One For Dummies


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Becoming a master of networking has never been easier Whether you're in charge of a small network or a large network, Networking All-in-One is full of the information you’ll need to set up a network and keep it functioning. Fully updated to capture the latest Windows 10 releases through Spring 2018, this is the comprehensive guide to setting up, managing, and securing a successful network. Inside, nine minibooks cover essential, up-to-date information for networking in systems such as Windows 10 and Linux, as well as best practices for security, mobile and cloud-based networking, and much more. Serves as a single source for the most-often needed network administration information Covers the latest trends in networking Get nine detailed and easy-to-understand networking minibooks in one affordable package Networking All-in-One For Dummies is the perfect beginner’s guide as well as the professional’s ideal reference book.




Help Desk Management: How to run a computer user support Service Desk effectively


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Do you want your Help Desk to maximize customer satisfaction, quality and first contact resolution? Or just make sure your IT management processes are repeatable? Does it seem your computer user support can be ad hoc at times? Are you always running around putting out fires? In this book you will learn powerful industry standard best practices that can be used to mature your IT Service Management processes, practices and procedures today! What makes this book different? Instead of just providing you a lot of technical information, I empower you with a step by step approach to mature your Help Desk. Each chapter includes straight forward processes that are easy to understand. Once you completely understand the process, chapters are concluded with a quick start implementation worksheet to put your new process into action. This format will allow you to rapidly transform your people, processes, and technology into a customer-focused center of excellence today! You can never underestimate the power of industry standard best practices. The recommendations shared in Help Desk Management are based on real-life experiences building successful customer-focused teams. Through trial and error, I am sharing what worked for my teams at small, medium, and Fortune 500 sized companies. Look no further. I will help you succeed. This information is designed to improve your management skills, your team engagement, and set you on a successful path to building a truly great team. What actionable and realistic end user support processes will you learn? How to justify funding for improvement projects. Creating an inspiring mission statement. Designing an employee performance management plan that works. Building an effective employee training and development program. Implementing a call and ticket quality assurance audit program that empowers the manager. Driving up the First Contact Resolution (FCR) percentage. Reducing cost per ticket costs by moving work from system engineers to the Help Desk. Marketing the Help Desk for company wide recognition. Implementing ITIL incident, problem, change, knowledge and event management. Do not hesitate to pick up your copy today




RT Essentials


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What is ticketing?; Installation; Getting started; Command-line interface; Administrative tasks; Scrips; Example configurations; Architecture; API; Development environments.




Network World


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For more than 20 years, Network World has been the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for network and IT executives responsible for the digital nervous systems of large organizations. Readers are responsible for designing, implementing and managing the voice, data and video systems their companies use to support everything from business critical applications to employee collaboration and electronic commerce.




A Guide to Customer Service Skills for the Help Desk Professional


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This detailed look at the "soft" skills needed to succeed as help desk professional will provide students with proven customer support techniques for the workplace.