Education institute improves productivity and reduces costs with Microsoft Azure and Office 365

12th of June, 2014 / / No Comments

Customer Overview
Principals Australia Institute (PAI) provides quality professional learning, leadership development and support to principals and school leaders. PAI’s programs and services help build effective, inspirational and sustainable leadership in Australia’s 10,000 government, Catholic and independent primary and secondary schools.

Business Situation
PAI expressed a desire to improve productivity, manage costs and reduce overall risk to its business. Kloud worked with PAI IT staff to provide a roadmap towards a set of IT reforms that delivered on these goals.… [Keep reading] “Education institute improves productivity and reduces costs with Microsoft Azure and Office 365”

Remote desktop client randomly unable connect to the RDS farm

15th of April, 2014 / / 5 Comments

Recently I ran into a problem with an existing Remote Desktop Services 2012 R2 at a client site. The error occurred intermittently and after a number of retries, client could establish connection normally making the issue not always reproducible.  This blog summarises the process of identifying the symptoms, possible causes, and the resolution steps.

Some Background

The RDS farm consisted of two connection broker servers and two session hosts.  The Remote Desktop Connection Broker is configured in HA mode using two DNS records pointing to two broker nodes for round robin. … [Keep reading] “Remote desktop client randomly unable connect to the RDS farm”

An Overview of Server Name Indication (SNI) and Creating an IIS SNI Web SSL Binding Using PowerShell in Windows Server 2012

18th of April, 2013 / / 7 Comments

One of the frustrating limitations in supporting secure websites has been the inability to share IP addresses among SSL websites. In the day, there were a few ways to solve this limitation. One, you could use multiple IP addresses, binding a SSL certificate to each combination of an IP address and standard SSL port. This has been the best method to date but it is administratively heavy and not necessarily a good use of valuable IP addresses.… [Keep reading] “An Overview of Server Name Indication (SNI) and Creating an IIS SNI Web SSL Binding Using PowerShell in Windows Server 2012”