Help Desk Authority

Powerful, Advanced Help Desk Management for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses

HelpDesk Authority is a robust help desk solution for small to medium-sized businesses with complex network environments. It provides a powerful combination of management features integrated with a best-of-breed IT help desk platform. Use the help desk software to manage the ticket system workflows, dashboards, reporting and end-user self-service portals. Use the embedded management features within the help desk platform to proactively manage network events, desktops, servers and applications as well as resolve issues faster and more effectively.

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 Help Desk Authority is developed and supported by ScriptLogic (a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software).

One Simple Interface for Everything
Take full advantage of our automated, best-of-breed help desk management capabilities to enable proactivity that the business will appreciate. Manage incident and service requests, assets and knowledge from a single, easy-to-use console. Create tickets automatically from emails, and provide self-service functions to end users. Generate reports and dashboards from issue and/or asset data.

Customizable and Flexible Set Up  
Tailor Help Desk Authority to fit your business. You don’t have to be a programmer to design the screen layout, help desk ticket data, queries and reports. Define your own business workflows and rules for handling tickets. Also, you can access the help desk console through multiple client interfaces including Windows®, web or mobile.

Automation and Self-Service
Prevent unnecessary calls to the help desk and maximize productivity with extensive self-service functions for end users such as the searchable knowledgebase or the automated message board that highlights known issues. Manage incidents more efficiently by creating automated workflows that route help desk tickets based on pre-determined skill levels and user priority mapping.

Alignment with Industry Guidelines
Rest assured that your help desk is consistent with best practice guidelines from ITIL, including automatic assignment of help desk ticket priorities and due dates based on impact and urgency that users designate.

Built-In Management Solutions
Integrate management capabilities optionally from other solutions.  Use Quest Foglight NMS to establish thresholds that create network alerts and help desk tickets for you. Leverage Remote Support Center to diagnose and resolve issues from off site.  Let HDAsset automatically manage hardware and software asset inventory changes. Employ a Password Self-Service module to allow end users to manage their password changes.

Help Desk Authority Workflow

Operating Systems

  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Server (32 and 64 bit) (Service Pack 2)
  • Microsoft Windows 2008 Server (32 and 64 bit) (Service Pack 2)
  • Microsoft Windows 2008 Server R2 (Service Pack 1)
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 3 or higher)
  • Microsoft Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit) (Service Pack 2)
  • Microsoft Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) (Service Pack 1)

Software Requirements

Microsoft .Net 3.5 Framework is required for Help Desk Authority. This is installed as part of the Help Desk Authority application. If the Microsoft .Net Framework is already present on the machine, the Help Desk Authority installation program will not install that package. The .Net Framework is also available as a free download from Microsoft.

Hardware Requirements

ObjectMinimumRecommended
Disk space200 MB (MSI client only)

220 MB (basic installation)

250 MB (full installation)
200 MB or higher (MSI client only)

220 MB or higher (basic installation)

250 MB or higher (full installation)
Processor speed2.68 GHz2.68 GHz (dual core) or higher
RAM requirements1 GB2 GB or higher
Video color16 bit24 bit
Video resolution1280 x 10241280 x 1024

Database Support

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (32 and 64 bit)
  • Microsoft SQL 2005 Express
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (32 and 64 bit)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (32 and 64 bit)
  • Microsoft SQL 2008 Express
  • Microsoft SQL 2008 Express R2 (32 and 64 bit) (If you do not have any Microsoft SQL Server versions installed, you will be given a link to install SQL 2008 Express during installation)

Web Server

  • IIS 7
  • IIS 6 (Win 2003)

Browser Support

  • HDAccess:
    • Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 or higher
    • Mozilla Firefox 10 or higher
    • Google Chrome 17 or higher
    • Apple Safari 5
  • HDWeb:
    • Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 or higher
    • Mozilla Firefox 10 or higher