The IT work people actually ask you to do

Everyday IT

Practical guidance for helpdesk technicians, junior administrators, MSP techs, and office admins who inherited IT and need to get common work done without guessing. Start safe. Understand what matters. Fix the problem. Know when to stop.

Start here if the ticket is sitting in front of you

Everyday IT is the practical front door to KrippyTech. It focuses on repeatable work, common mistakes, safe changes, and the checks that help you avoid turning a small issue into a bigger one.

Featured learning path

Office IT Admin Survival Guide

New users, Active Directory, permissions, Microsoft 365, email, printers, SharePoint, OneDrive, MFA, troubleshooting, and escalation.

View the course outline

Core method

Users → Groups → Access

Learn the simple mental model behind onboarding, permissions, Microsoft 365 access, SharePoint, and many of the problems new technicians see every week.

Everyday IT topics

Built around the work that shows up constantly in offices and MSP helpdesks.

01 · Available now

New Users & Onboarding

AD accounts, Microsoft 365 licensing, groups, email, access, devices, and the things people forget during new-hire setup.

Set up a new user

02 · Available now

Active Directory

Creating users safely, copying known-good setups, OUs, useful user properties, group membership, lockouts, and common logon issues.

Work safely in Active Directory

03 · Available now

Groups & Permissions

Security groups, distribution lists, role-based access, NTFS versus share permissions, and a practical way to think through access denied.

Understand groups and permissions

04 · Available now

Microsoft 365 & Email

Licensing, user and shared mailboxes, distribution lists, common mailbox problems, and basic mail trace.

Troubleshoot Microsoft 365 email

05 · Available now

Printers

Drivers, ports, PCL versus PS, quick installs, test prints, spooler problems, and why a printer works on one machine but not another.

Troubleshoot a printer

06 · Available now

SharePoint & OneDrive

Plain-English file access, group-based permissions, sync problems, and why something can work in the browser but fail in File Explorer.

Fix SharePoint and OneDrive access

07 · Available now

Passwords & MFA

Resets, cached credentials, lockouts, registration problems, mobile versus desktop symptoms, and safe MFA recovery concepts.

Troubleshoot sign-in and MFA

08 · Available now

Troubleshooting & Escalation

What changed, one user versus everybody, where to look first, what to verify, and which changes should not be made casually.

Use the troubleshooting framework

Outlook

Rebuild an Outlook Profile

Prove the mailbox is healthy, create a fresh Classic Outlook profile, let it resync, and verify before removing the old profile.

Rebuild the profile

Windows

Clear Windows Temp Files Safely

Clean the common Temp locations, skip active files, and know when cleanup is no longer the real answer.

Clean Temp files

OneDrive

Recover Disk Space with Files On-Demand

Understand OneDrive status icons, distinguish logical size from physical disk use, and release cached files without deleting cloud content.

Recover disk space

VPN

VPN Troubleshooting

Separate the client, gateway, reachability, credentials, MFA, backend authentication, and post-connect resources.

Prove where the VPN fails

Scanner

Scanner Not Detected

Work from power and USB path through Windows detection and vendor software before blaming the device.

Troubleshoot a scanner

Scan to Email

Copier or Microsoft 365?

Use scan time, Exchange receive time, quarantine evidence, and copier transmission history to locate the delay.

Trace scan-to-email
Do the common work confidently without pretending every problem is simple.

Everyday IT teaches the safe, practical layer first. When the problem gets deeper, KrippyTech's tutorials, cases, MSP University, PowerShell, and advanced material are there for the next level.