Schools Broadband Advice Sought
At one of my schools, we're in the process of transitioning away from Schools Broadband, to another provider. As it turns out, there's a 90 day termination "you must give us not less than ninety (90)...
View Articlesmoothwall test error
Morning All any ideas on how to fix an error on our smoothwall , when we run the Functionality test we get and error in the Gardian section "Not expected 200 OK response: 500 Can't connect to...
View Article4G Unlimited data Business Use
Does anyone have any good recommendations for a 4G sim provider that does unlimited or very high usage allowance? We have a small building that has a separate broadband line that I am wanting to cancel...
View ArticleLessonSpace Proxy
Hello all I have an issue where I can log in to thelessonspace.com as a student but when we get to the tutoring page, the whiteboard display is not working. Has anyone else had this issue with...
View ArticleSmoothwall Safeguarding report what do the Caution, Danger Advisory mean
Stupid question but trying to work out if this means it was blocked and they attempted access or they visited the site successfully and also what Breach means in Smoothwall terms as it seems to apply...
View ArticleNetSweeper report - show actual URLs accessed and not just domain:port?
Trying to run off a report of a pupil's internet traffic over an hour-long period and I can't find a way to give me an actual 'this is the requested resource' URL. For example, if I go to...
View ArticleConstant Smoothwall Issues - Looking to swap ASAP, recommends?
Hi all, We've been having constant issues with our smoothwall since we were forced on to it via our ISP. Our site previously used lightspeed which worked fine for our site and now after this issue...
View ArticleSwiggle
Anyone else use the child-friendly search engine Swiggle (https://swiggle.org.uk/) for their kids? It looks like any search just goes back to the home page. I've also checked on my (not connected to...
View ArticleEdge and Smoothwall cert trust - Potential iceburg ahead?
Hi, I just noticed there is a cert trust change mentioned in the notes of Edge 109 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-security-cert-verification. In future versions of...
View ArticleEdge and Smoothwall cert trust - Potential iceberg ahead?
Hi, I just noticed there is a cert trust change mentioned in the notes of Edge 109 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-security-cert-verification. In future versions of...
View ArticleEDS/BTLS (NetSweeper) Moving from AD to Azure AD filtering
Hi All, Has anyone had experienced with EDS/BTLS transferring the NetSweepers security groups from Active Directory searching to Azure Active Directory Security Groups? Our schools are looking to go...
View ArticleO365 Phishing Site (One to Block)
Hi all, Another O365 Phishing site to block - Code: --------- accurtation-mammogen-unillumined.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com ---------
View ArticleSmoothwall blocking BBC News?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news is suddenly getting blocked this morning by Smoothwall as "Body piercing and Tattoos" Could someone check if their Smoothwall is doing the same or is it just us? Thanks
View ArticleOdd UniFi behavior
So I wanted to a) force as many devices to use 5ghz as possible, B) restrict the radio signal to inside each classroom, as we are getting overlaps. I set prefer 5ghz under Band steering, set 2.4ghz to...
View ArticleSmoothwall and sites.google.com
I'm struggling on granularly filtering sites.google.com sites. At the moment we block sites.google.com however we allow URL specific Google sites that are deemed fit for education - staff tell us which...
View ArticleContent Filtering Policy questions from "the other side"
Disclaimer: I'm not a school IT admin, I'm a software developer for a company that is releasing learning software into schools... I hope you don't mind me infiltrating the collective. We have a tablet...
View ArticleSmoothwall and School Hire
Anyone else getting reports of not being able to see messages on Schoolhire.co.uk? We've figured out it seems to be a smoothwall problem blocking something but we've been trying to chat with their...
View ArticleiPlayer DNS / URLS
Hello, I am trying to help a friend overcome some issues with BBC iPlayer. I was wondering if anyone has a list of URLS or DNS records used by iPlayer please? Thanks.
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