Restricted mode for YouTube
Morning all, Does this work anymore? I have added the DNAME in DNS and it goes nowhere. Going to restrict.youtube.com in a browser gives a 404 broken robot. Thanks James
View ArticleSophos Webfilter - scary clowns
Hi can anyone point me in the right direction for blocking key words on sophos ws500? we use Bing primeraly using strcit safe search but when childern type in scary clowns , its comes up with quite a...
View ArticleHas anyone used or heard of M247?
Hi Guys, Just looking at our connectivity options and came across a company that seems to provide the various services our school is looking for (whilst out in the sticks!) called https://m247.com/ -...
View ArticleSmoothwall logout URL?
Hi all Does anyone know if there's a URL to logout of Smoothwall? I know you can get the the logout button by going to http://smoothwall/iclogin, but I'm wanting the URL to log out. We're wanting users...
View ArticleUpcoming Chrome update will label HTTP sites not secure
I see it on some sites and not others currently but come July all HTTP sites will be marked as 'not secure' ---Quote--- Chrome has been taking measures to inform users when they're on an unencrypted...
View ArticlePrevent students downloading Youtube videos
Hi All We have YouTube filtered for Years 7-11, Sixth form have access to it. What some Year 11's have discovered they are able to do is search for a video in Google (e.g. Ed Sheeran). Google will then...
View ArticleYouTube restrictions, filter by AD group
Morning all, Following on from installing the DNS settings for restrict.youtube.com or restrict-moderate.youtube.com in our domain, as per my other post. This is great and works, BUT as we are a...
View ArticleNetsweeper and Sophos
With SchoolsBroadband here and using Netsweeper. since Netsweeper was installed we cannot download Sophos and none of the clients can update from Sophos Cloud. any ideas?
View ArticleProxy with keyword blocking
Afternoon all, Another thread on filtering... Having sorted the YouTube restrictions with Google Suite, I am now wanting to implement some kind of keyword blocking. I am looking at using a squid server...
View ArticleNetsweeper with Schools Broadband design question
Firstly, School Broadband have already passed on their thoughts on this but wanted to see what others think. We have 12 schools connected as a single domain. All schools will be on a VPLS and we have a...
View ArticleSWGfL filtering of SSL websites
Can I ask what other schools' experiences and opinions of SWGfL's web filtering are, particularly in relation to the filtering of SSL encrypted websites? Having installed the SWGfL Google SSL...
View ArticleSmoothwall, Ruckus and Radius
Hiya, there's been plenty of mentions of this setup in the past here but all are geared towards BYOD rather than shared devices. This is for a fairly poor IT skilled primary where students need a lot...
View ArticleShould we have Domain Ownership protection?
About to register a couple of domain names and going through the process I get the option to add in Domain Ownership Protection to prevent accidental expiration or malicious transfer. Also Privacy :...
View ArticleBest IT support companies?
Hi Does anyone know the best IT support companies that have a good hold on eSafety? currently use Joskos but thinking of looking elsewhere!
View ArticleExa ISP users... Exa Helpdesk... does it load for you?
Could anyone that is using Exa as their ISP and been moved over to the new Quantum proxy servers (i.e. *.quantum.exa-networks.co.uk) try pinging help.exa.net.uk and let me know what IP address it...
View ArticleBluecoat ProxySG
Hi: Can anyone guide me on the console based commands of Bluecoat SG on how to change the keystring of SSL back to "default" I followed this https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH244881.html...
View ArticleProxy PAC query
If you specific a PAC file for the proxy and that pac file isnt reachable, what happens? Does the internet just not work or does it just send data direct. We are looking at PAC files and are hoping to...
View ArticleProxy/Guest Networks/Ruckus
Hi All Bit long winded this. We've just had a new Ruckus network installed, on this, there is a setup for guests (Which is new to us) What's the best way to set this up with regards to using WPAD etc...
View ArticleQuad9 Office 365 issues?
Just had users phone in reporting issues with Office 365 login on our internal machines (white page stuck when trying to access login.microsoftonline.com) By process of elimination we switched back to...
View ArticleHome related issue can I get some help?
Last week I had Virgin out to swap out an old failing V2 homehub and replaced with a V3. I thought all was okay, but then I realise I couldn't connect remotely to my WD Mycloud NAS boxes. I have looked...
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