exa networks email delivery delays / fails
Is anyone else having issues with outbound email via exa email relay. We can receive email but all outbound is being delayed. Started Friday morning.
View ArticleISP Choice
Hello All I'm sure this has been done to death, and for that I apologise in advance but I'm about to decide on our new ISP and its likely to be either RM or Schools Broadband, and I wondered if any of...
View ArticleMonitoring/Safeguarding/Key Logging Tools
Okay troops, before I bite the bullet. I'd like some feedback on what software you use to monitor students when it comes to safeguarding. *Impero* So far i've had a trial of Impero and have loved the...
View ArticleShadow VLAN's / additional resilience
Hello everyone, I'd appreciate some _constructive_ feedback from the community around carrier interconnect / data centre resiliency. Currently, most leased lines and GEA / EoFTTC based connections...
View ArticleRecommend exchange protection software
Hi guys Can you recommend some antispam for exchange server 2010 must have outbound checking also anyone got a solution in place?
View ArticleSoftware to view web logs in Sophos UTM
Can anyone recommend any software to easily view web logs from a Sophos UTM, finding that trawling through the UTM web logs not very user friendly.
View ArticleSchools Broadband Lightspeed
Anyone still using Lightspeed with SB, were you informed of the update to V3? No emails here or to any of my primaries and things are playing up. Proxy settings changed for those that use them, some of...
View ArticleBudgeting for broadband filter
This is probably my ignorance, but at home I use openDNS and supervise my children's internet usage. This does not cover everything, but I know with a bit of filtering on URLs I could knock out nine...
View ArticleInternet Proxt via WPAD and PAC files
Hi All, Just wondering has anyone used WPAD and PAC files in their organization here, instead for pushing out a set proxy to access the internet? Have you experienced any pros and cons with Windows 10...
View ArticleLooking for a "Keyword" blacklist
Hi All, I'm currently setting up keyword email notifications in Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and wondered if anyone had a "blacklist" of keywords already set up that I could use? Also, within the...
View ArticleHome 4G Internet
Hi all, Looking for some advice. My parents house is on up a shared driveway with no ducting, leaving only aluminium cable (according to BT) coming up the drive being joined to copper at the road then...
View ArticleG.fast 350Mbit Internet beta testers required - Free trial connections of...
Hello everyone, we're always trying the very latest and greatest here at Schools Broadband and next up from a connectivity point of view is G.fast. For those of you that haven't heard of G.Fast (BT...
View ArticleSchools Broadband Netsweeper - MDMs?
So first Netsweeper migration happening next week and just wondered how MDMs and Google Apps behave? Now we have to set a proxy obviously if the iOS or Chromebook cannot connect to the internet to be...
View ArticleSmoothwall Non-SSL login
Hi everyone, We are currently using Ruckus here to allow people to connect BYOD equipment. At the moment when they connect they are prompted with the ruckus login page to authenticate too. Following...
View Article.sch.uk Domain transfer to Godaddy
Has anyone here succesfully moved their .sch.uk domain over to Godaddy? If so could you please pm me your domain and any gotchas? Multiple times i'm told it's not possible, only after jumping through...
View ArticleDuckDuckGo bypassing filters
Our students have found you can watch Youtube videos by searching with DuckDuckGo then clicking to "play the video here" rather than going to Youtube itself. Any ideas how to stop this? Following...
View ArticleFTTP On Demand Anyone?
I noticed that our postcode now comes up as "FTTP on Demand available". Even with 10 ot 20% contention the 330Mb/s would be a lost faster than a 100Mb/s leased line which costs a lot more. And the...
View Articleallow windows and office activation behind censornet
Hi does anyone have any success in activating windows 7 or office 2010/13 from behind censornet uss appliance, i have searched the net for every thread and used literally loads of urls to no avail so...
View ArticleShow a Smoothwall block page on Ruckus guest wifi ???
Hi all, Got a small dilemma here. We're running an old-ish Ruckus Zonedirector 1100. I have guest wifi set up and running fine. On our Smoothwall I have a custom block page configured that displays...
View Articlesecurus key logging
Hi all quick question, can we check if key logging is enabled for particular user? I have been told to enable for some students and wanted to ensure they are not aware of it? Can this be same for staff...
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