Taking requests in
A message to helpme@apply.fr, a ticket in the portal, or a few lines on Teams. Nobody has to work out who to ask or wait until a colleague has five minutes.
The helpdesk is where an employee goes when one small thing blocks the whole day: Outlook refuses to open, the scanner sends nothing, the authenticator app vanished along with an old handset, the electronic signature stopped working after the last browser update. Caught straight away, these things take a few minutes of shared screen. Left alone, they turn into lost hours and homemade workarounds that nobody dares touch afterwards.
A first line is not meant to know everything. Its job comes down to two moves: settle on the spot whatever can be settled, and pass the rest to the right specialist with the case already written up.
A message to helpme@apply.fr, a ticket in the portal, or a few lines on Teams. Nobody has to work out who to ask or wait until a colleague has five minutes.
The engineer connects once the user agrees, and that user watches every action on screen and can end the session whenever they like. While we are there, we show how to avoid a repeat.
Outlook profiles, shared mailboxes, mail rules, Teams meetings, OneDrive sync, permissions on SharePoint libraries, resetting authentication factors.
First-line help on Sage, Cegid, EBP, Pennylane, Silae or a practice management package: logging in, reaching the database, printing, a workstation that no longer sees the server. Product defects go to the publisher and we chase the case.
Queues, drivers, scan to email, card readers. A bottomless source of requests, which is precisely why we look for the cause instead of restarting the spooler once again.
Anything involved moves to the right engineer along with the history, the screenshots and a list of what has already been tried. The user never explains the problem twice.
Getting going takes a few days: open the channels, equip the machines, and tell staff plainly where to write and what they can expect back.
We connect the support address, the portal and Teams to your organisation, then roll out the remote control agent through Intune, or by hand on isolated machines.
One page on the intranet or a pinned Teams message: where to write, what to attach, what belongs to support and what does not.
We receive, resolve, escalate. Each request carries a number, its author gets an acknowledgement when it is picked up and a message when it closes.
Every month we look at which incidents keep coming back and remove the cause: a badly written print policy, an undersized licence, a machine too old for the version installed on it.
A screenshot saves more time than the best engineer alive. The opening minutes of a request nearly always go on reconstructing what happened, to whom and since when. So we teach teams to attach a picture of the error message plus one sentence about what they were doing just before. With those two things, a good share of requests close on the very first reply.
The target comes from your contract: 4 h on Start, 1 h on Business, 15 min on Premium, Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 18:00 CET. Inside that window severity decides: an accountancy practice locked out of its software on a VAT deadline goes ahead of a request for a new document template.
Almost everything to do with software, accounts and settings. When a screen stays dark or a network socket has broken, we guide whoever is on site over video: one of your own people, or the local technician you work with. Hardware comes from your usual reseller and we prepare it online afterwards.
Not at our end: we connect wherever the machine happens to be, as long as it has internet. We help with what serves the job, meaning email, Teams, VPN and applications managed through Intune. The home router and the family printer stay outside. Your remote working charter is worth writing down clearly, and so is the right to disconnect.
Any employee covered by the contract, through whichever channel suits them. Separately, you name the people who approve anything with consequences: access to the payroll folder, buying another licence, opening a share to the outside world. An ordinary breakdown needs no approval at all.
Tell us how many people work with you and who rescues them today. We will propose how to set up the channels and take the open requests off your hands.
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An answer follows inside one working day. Report an outage that is stopping people working and it moves ahead of everything else.
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