Abzorb ISP
Our LA is offering us a new SLA with Abzorb as the ISP. We're being offered either a 100/100 or 200/1000 leased lines with a 4G failover connection, a managed on-site firewall (type as yet...
View ArticleCovid testing captcha not working! anyone else?
We are having issues with the Captcha form not working on the Covid.gov testing site. Anyone else found the same?
View ArticlePBX unable to find some network phones
Hi all, This might be a stupid question, or may be the wrong place to post it - forgive me I'm a newbie to both the site and the role of IT Technician. We recently switched our phone system onto a new,...
View ArticleSmoothwall cloud filter for Chromebooks - not filtering.
I've been working for a week on setting up Smoothwall cloud filter but it's not filtering. The Smoothwall Chrome extension is deployed with the serial number in the JSON extension properties. The...
View ArticleFiltering Risk Assessment
I have been asked by my SLT to write a risk assessment for the filtering system we use in school. We are a smoothwall school and I have contacted them but they were of no help. I was wondering if...
View ArticleEmail bouncing
So we have two schools, infants and juniors. Emails are through gsuite. All my staffs email accounts in the junior school are working fine. Eg. Johnsmith@juniorschool.co.uk The infants addresses eg....
View ArticleChromebook filtering
We aren't looking to renew our current RM Unify subscription at the end of the year, so wondering what others do for Chromebook filtering. We have been using RM SafetyNet Go (previously Buzz) with...
View ArticleDFE 4G Dongle Rant!
Hi Has anyone had issues with these? We've only sent one home and it stopped working after a day. Contacted DFE who replied after a week saying contact your LEA. Contacted LEA who had no idea what I...
View ArticleExa hosted firewall
Anyone using Exas hosted fortigate solution? Id be interested in how you have found it. Thanks
View ArticleChrome access to Google services not working
OK, odd one. One site is reporting that if they use Chrome on Windows laptops they can't access Drive, Meet or Classroom etc (and Marvellous Me) but other sites are fine (so not a proxy problem?) and...
View ArticleReplying to students in Google Classroom
Has anybody else experienced this? Staff receive emails to say student has left a private comment in google classroom, when they click on the reply button it just goes to the classroom homepage, not...
View ArticleSophos XG Vs Chromebooks
Hello! We have a new xg utm, we also have a few Chromebooks, we want the chromebooks to be presented with their normal login to g suite prompt, then drop to a captive portal due to them not auth'ing on...
View ArticleSmoothwall Cloud filter not uploading logs
We thought we had Smoothwall Cloud filter up and running, users and filtering is working, but not the logs going back into our on prem boxes. The diagnostics look like this. { "copiedAt": "Thu,...
View ArticleDomain purchase
Our default domain is quite long. For example, my email address is xxxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. (xxxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx)sch.uk. It's a massive pain reading out...
View ArticleInternet speed - Is this normal?
Can anyone else with Smoothwall and a 1Gbps fibre connection show me what this graph shows on your external connection: Attachment 60828...
View Article1:1 iPads - iOS Filtering and Monitoring Solutions
Hi all, Looking for recommendations for iOS off-site filtering for our student devices. We've looked at Lightspeed, Umbrella and extending our current on-site Smoothwall to filter at home. None seem to...
View ArticleAppropiate filtering and monitoring
Hi, I'm asking for clarification on what level of filtering and monitoring is actually required by law or gov obligations. In the keeping children safe in edu document, I can only find reference to the...
View ArticleWhat SSL VPN clients are you using to remote via Smoothwall?
Hi all, Hope all are well..... I'm currently VPN'ing remote Windows clients in using the Smoothwall generated Securepoint SSL VPN app (OpenVPN). It's a terrible piece of software failing or requiring...
View ArticleSmoothwall - Youtube Search Filtering.. Sanity Check?
Hi All, I have a Smoothwall that I'm trying to ban particular search terms on, especially for Youtube. I've created the rules (as per this...
View ArticleMonitoring iPad internet use, what do you guys do?
Evening. Can I pick your brains please on iPad interment use monitoring. Our iPads are numbered and we write down which number each child takes but I'm struggling to monitor their internet use. When...
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