Unifi Hotspot (Guest) and Lightspeed Rocket
Hi there, at our school we have a lot of swimming gala's etc and we would like to offer the parents guest access to our wifi using the voucher based system but am not sure how to go about setting this...
View ArticleSophos UTM and apple
I have some mac minis that I've setup and are going through the sophos utm proxy how ever I'm getting strange experiences from safari. When a user puts in there user and password for the proxy they can...
View ArticleSmoothwall root cert not fully OpenSSL compliant?
We have been testing a new product called eSafe (from www.esafeglobal.com). It logs what students are typing and performs SSL interception on the computer to decrypt traffic between the the browser and...
View ArticleDarkcometRAT53
One of our students is telling everyone he has their ip address and can block their internet access at home. hes also boasting that he can "shut the schools network down" I've had a look at his school...
View ArticleExa Quantum filtering & setting up Outlook 2016 with a 365 account broken
Has anyone else come across the bellow issue when trying to set up an Office 365 account in Outlook 2016 at a site with an Exa connection where Quantum is enabled? We only get this at sites where...
View ArticleDDOS Protection / Mitigation Software
Hi We have been attacked by to networks 190.172.0.0/15 & 190.178.0.0/15. We have Smoothwall, and working with their helpdesk we have blocked the networks but still had no internet access due to the...
View ArticleYoutube restricted mode
Anybody noticed that YouTube restricted mode has got a lot more restricted over the last week. Videos that played fine last week now are classed as restricted.
View ArticleGetting rid of all our servers and going fully cloud-based - good idea or...
Our current server/network provision and support contract is up for renewal next year, and we're at the thinking big, out-of-the-box, "no idea is a bad idea" stage and asking ourselves can we ditch all...
View ArticleHELP! Upload bandwidth problems
I have a primary school in our trust with around 250 pupils and around 20 staff. We have at FTTC broadband connection so our upload is only around 8mb max. When a user goes on youtube for whatever...
View ArticleMaking lightspeed resolvable
Hi, We use chromebooks and would like to use lightspeeds Google sso option to be able to view more detailed reports. In order to do the above I need to make lightspeed resolvable externally. How would...
View ArticleDo you block flight booking websites?
Just been asked whether we should be blocking student access to sites where they can book their own flights. In terms of the Prevent strategy it makes sense just wondered if anyone else does it already.
View ArticleSafe Youtube Searching
Worked here but I blocked it, more to stop distractions = https://613tube.com/
View ArticlePfSense, Squid and Sky On Demand
I have set-up PfSense in my home environment to much success, with the exception of getting Sky On Demand content to download. I've attempted to add the IP of the Sky+ box to the proxy bypass list,...
View ArticleSchool Websites - what do people do?
Hi, at the moment I am being told we need to save money in IT which I am sure is a familiar story to most of you. At the moment we pay a firm called Green Schools Online to host and build our website....
View ArticleTelnet test through the SWGfL
In anticipation of our new AccessIT library software going in today we got RM/SWGfL to amend our firewall rules to add an outbound rule for : Source : School IP ranges Destination : 95.154.244.11...
View ArticleSchools Broadband, Netsweeper - Guest instructions
Does anyone have a guide they issue to guest that explains how to install the SSL certificate and configure the proxy for iOS, Android and Windows? If not I will spend this evening doing one but am...
View ArticleMoving from Smoothwall? Alternatives?
Afternoon all - just after any and all opinions really. Smoothwall's just about had it's chips - reporting is the main sticking point, for all the flashy (if complicated) features of it. What I REALLY...
View ArticleSmoothwall arch type
Hi everyone, This may seem like a stupid question but we have smoothwall leeds-4 update running on quite an old HP server. I didn't install it. It has 16gb of RAM but doesn't ever seem to utilise more...
View ArticleShift from Internet Explorer to Chrome Browser For Enterprise
Has anyone made the shift from internet explorer to Chrome Browser for Enterprise as their default staff and student internet browser? been looking at this and really want to change as I hate IE :...
View ArticleSchool Domains
Hi all, Just a quick question everyone. Which registrars look after the .sch.uk domain names for schools. I have been doing some research and not found one that will look after those types. Most look...
View Article