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Help Desk & Support

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

9 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

9 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate break-fix incidents, service requests, and maintenance in Microsoft healthcare environments.

  • Navigate ticket lifecycles and align documentation with clinical-priority SLAs.

  • Triage a live ITSM queue and categorize incidents accurately (hardware, software, network access).

  • Execute warm-transfer escalations to specialized clinical application and network teams.

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September 2026

Assessments

20 assignments¹

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Taught in English

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This course is part of the Microsoft Healthcare IT Support Specialist Professional Certificate
When you enroll in this course, you'll also be enrolled in this Professional Certificate.
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There are 9 modules in this course

This module builds the entry-level triage skill every healthcare IT support technician needs on day one: recognizing which category a support ticket falls into and executing standard service request procedures for common access and provisioning (the process of setting up, configuring, and granting access to IT resources, applications, or devices for a user) tasks in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure.

What's included

1 video2 readings2 assignments

This module teaches you to execute the four most common service request types in Microsoft 365 healthcare environments—software access, permissions changes, device requests, and mailbox provisioning—each carried out against a documented, approved workflow.

What's included

1 video3 readings2 assignments

Build the mental model needed to recognize where a ticket is in its lifecycle, how it moves between states, and how clinical priority levels drive the Service Level Agreement (SLA) clock. This is the foundational vocabulary for keeping a service desk queue in motion.

What's included

2 videos2 readings2 assignments

Learn to use team-provided documentation templates to capture what you tried and what the next technician needs to know, turning your ticket work into a hand-off that the next shift can act on immediately. Templates scaffold the two required sections (troubleshooting steps and hand-off notes) so you're building consistent, structured documentation habits rather than reinventing the format each time. You aren't expected to be a perfect writer on the first try. These templates are your safety net.

What's included

1 video2 readings3 assignments

Build the mental model for how ITSM tools organize healthcare IT work. Learn how queues, categorization, priority, SLAs, and knowledge base linkage connect to turn raw ticket volume into structured work that a technician can act on.

What's included

1 video2 readings2 assignments

Turn ITSM structural knowledge into applied triage skill. Learn to read raw clinical-user ticket language, determine the category (hardware, software, network, access), and set the ticket up for effective resolution by attaching the appropriate knowledge base article and documenting the triage decision.

What's included

1 video2 readings3 assignments

Build the mental map of a healthcare IT support ecosystem: who owns what, where tickets go when Tier 1 runs out of runway, and how to make the routing decision quickly under queue pressure.

What's included

2 videos2 readings2 assignments

Turn the escalation decision into a professional handoff. Practice writing an escalation summary that a receiving team can act on and role-playing the warm-transfer conversation itself, so the ticket lands with context, credibility, and clear ownership.

What's included

1 video2 readings3 assignments

Run a full morning shift at a healthcare IT service desk. You've just come on shift and inherited a mixed queue with 5 tickets in varied states: some need fulfillment, some need continued troubleshooting, and some need escalation. Triage each ticket, decide next actions, document your work, and warm-transfer the ones that need to leave your queue. Your finished Shift Report becomes a portfolio artifact hiring managers can scan in under 10 minutes to see your triage judgment, ITSM discipline, and escalation professionalism in one place.

What's included

1 video2 readings1 assignment

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