Moving to external Firewall
We are currently using internal Cisco ASA firewall and moving to external firewall during the half term. The new firewall is Juniper hardware which is installed for our broadband. The company will do...
View ArticleHTTPS very slow. HTTP fast
Weird problem I spent most of yesterday on. Our website for LMS has an upload function. Regularly teachers upload large files (videos). Nearly every machine in school is slow. (150mb file 2 mins HTTPS,...
View ArticleZoom Video Sharing Issues
Hi all, Just wondered if anyone uses Zoom video sharing in school ? Having issues trying to get it working. The following has been setup through the Smoothwall:-...
View ArticleSchool's Broadband Filtering / WAgent not pulling AD Groups
Hi For 2 days so far I have experienced WAgent error that says: *Could not assign group by configured rule, there is no defualt default agent set* Which has caused the whole school to revert to Student...
View Articlesophos reporting
Hey we recently install Sophos XG its a great bit of kit, but the reporting side of it seems to be quite clunky I was looking at fastview. Anyone use 3rd party tools for the reporting side of there xg....
View ArticleWired ChromeBoxes, 802.1x
Just trying to set up wired 802.1x on ChromeBoxes - never had a problem with 802.1x on ChromeBooks (over WiFi), but this is the first time we've tried it on wired ChromeBoxes. Has anyone got this...
View ArticleForce remove Lightspeed LMA Agent
Hi, Our lightspeed bottle rocket appliance died last year, so we moved to smoothwall. Does anyone have a way to force remove the LMA Agent? Jon
View ArticleCannot login to ebay inside school network
Hi Finance and the site manager cannot login to ebay any longer. When they attempt to login to ebay they enter their login credentials and are then presented with the usual capture. After ticking the...
View ArticleChromeOS Printing via Papercut Mobility Print
Hi All, We have Mobility Print setup for BYOD, it's working fine for Android, Mac, Windows and iOS but it's not working for ChromeOS. I'm unsure why, it worked fine before the summer but over the...
View ArticleWho performs "monitoring" at their Secondary schools?
Was at a Smoothwall User Conference yesterday, struck me how many schools were using "Monitoring", we only have "Filtering" in place. Wondered if this was now common to have some kind of monitoring in...
View ArticleGmail Tab
Dear All We have just moved our staff Gmail accounts to forename.surname@blah.com rather than intial.surname@blah.com Staff are now complaining that in the tab when they open gmail in the browser it...
View ArticleNew ISP
Hi My internet renewal is due soon and I am looking to move away from RM. We are also using there user based filtering. We are looking to upgrade our 300mb to 1gb connection. We will also need a...
View ArticleBroadband and Filtering
Hi All, Not so impressed with our filtering service since a glaring hole in SSL decrypt and inspect was found so I'm looking at alternatives; I've heard good things about EXA, but their DDOS puts me...
View ArticleBye bye BGFL....
So the Birmingham Grid for Learning is being closed down. Question is, which way should Birminghams school jump for a new provider? - Go alone and sort it yourself, - Link2ICT are offering a...
View ArticleAdobe Standard XI Installer
Hi All Wondering if someone could help. I accidentally deleted Adobe Standard XI from a laptop and need desperately to get the installer. If anyone could help me on this matter l would be most...
View ArticleSchoolsbroadband - Netsweeper issues
Hi, Anyone else having issues with web pages sometimes not loading and timing out. Got a few schools seeing: "WebsiteName" didn't send any data err empty response, (see attached screenshot) Users...
View ArticleLGfL subscription
We are about to sign with LGfL/TRUSTnet as we're not happy with our current provider. We are happy with their quote and their package. Our IT technician only works 1 day a week so we don't have that...
View ArticleAllowing YouTube in Fortigate
We have just been switched across to Fortigate for our web filtering, but, as usual, the training hasn't yet happened. Staff are complaining that they cannot access youtube videos they could access...
View ArticleChrome Google voice search
Found that in Chrome the kids can click the microphone to perform voice searches on Google. We don't want to outright block the mic as they may need to record their voices locally, but I don't want...
View ArticleHTTPS Inspection / Web filtering and Chromebooks
Hello. Trying to work out how to get more secure web-filtering via LGFL in place without having to resort to Impero (or similar) on a large estate of Chromebooks. Keep getting directed back to...
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