IT Atlas

Topics

Every part of IT, in plain English.

874 pages across ten areas: fix guides, concepts, tools, incident playbooks, labs and references.

IT Fundamentals

48 pages

How computers, networks and accounts work, from zero

  • Explore your PC
  • What IT people actually do
  • The parts of a computer
  • What happens when you press the power button
  • Finding your way around Windows
  • Keyboard shortcuts every tech uses
  • Users and permissions (Pro)

IT Support and Help Desk

111 pages

Everyday fixes, ticket craft and service processes

  • Email stuck in Outbox
  • Email went to junk
  • Mailbox full
  • Outlook not receiving email
  • Outlook search not working
  • Outlook won't open
  • Confluence (Pro)
  • Hudu (Pro)

Windows and Windows Server

91 pages

Active Directory, Group Policy, endpoints and patching

  • Read the Event Viewer (Pro)
  • Build a Windows Server lab (Pro)
  • Create a domain and join a PC (Pro)

Networking

84 pages

DNS, DHCP, VLANs, firewalls, VPNs and voice

  • Find your network settings
  • Look up DNS records
  • Set up DHCP (Pro)
  • Capture traffic with Wireshark (Pro)
  • Break and fix DNS (Pro)

Microsoft 365 and Cloud

28 pages

Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure and SaaS

  • Azure OpenAI Service (Pro)
  • ChatGPT Enterprise (Pro)
  • Gemini for Google Workspace (Pro)

Cybersecurity

75 pages

EDR, email security, identity protection and compliance

  • App Control for Business (Pro)
  • AppLocker (Pro)
  • ThreatLocker (Pro)

Backup and Disaster Recovery

60 pages

Backup tools, recovery planning and verification

  • Back up and restore a server (Pro)
  • Axcient x360Recover (Pro)
  • Barracuda Backup (Pro)

Virtualization and Storage

37 pages

Hypervisors, storage, RAID and disks

  • Azure Local (Pro)
  • Hyper-V (Pro)
  • Nutanix AHV (Pro)

Monitoring and Automation

71 pages

RMM, monitoring, alerting and scripting

  • Your first PowerShell script (Pro)
  • Atera (Pro)
  • Barracuda RMM (Pro)

DevOps and Infrastructure

45 pages

Containers, infrastructure as code, architecture and facilities

  • Exchange Server (Pro)
  • Microsoft SQL Server (Pro)
  • MongoDB (Pro)

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