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Case study · IT and remote work
Pinnacle Connect: secure remote access
Pinnacle Connect gives remote desktop access through a secure tunnel, with Microsoft work sign-in in front of it and printing back to the user's own printer.
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How it was done · told by Gatekeeper Zara
The office, from home
- 1
The problem
Office staff needed the office desktop apps and printers from home without opening the office network to the internet.
- 2
The bees make a plan
Pinnacle Connect gives remote desktop access through a secure tunnel, with Microsoft work sign-in in front of it and printing back to the user's own printer.
- 3
Build
- Set up a secure outbound tunnel, so the office firewall stays closed
- Put Microsoft Entra sign-in in front of access
- Packaged a simple client, including a USB install kit
- 4
Test
Tested sign-in and printing with staff
- 5
Where it stands
In use at our own electrical company for remote office work.
The technology we used
Named, because we really use it.
- Cloudflare Tunnel
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Remote Desktop (RDP)
- Windows Server
Technology names are text only. Naming a vendor is not a partnership or sponsorship claim.
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