SSL Issues
In case anyone else is seeing SSL errors this morning when browsing the web.... https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article/KB-000045954?language=en_US
View ArticleInternet filtering And monitoring. All advice and thoughts welcomed!
*All advice welcomed at this point! * We have user based filtering with RM. We have alerts in place for safeguarding and concerning sites visited. The head at one school wants to keep an eye on staff...
View ArticleSmoothwall and restricting accounts in Edge
Hi all, we have 11SE devices here, we are following the guide to setup the devices with Smoothwall on Intune. It all works fine, but when you enforce our domain for logging into Edge, it won't accept...
View ArticleSmoothwall Valid Support Contact but out of warranry box
While I wait for support to reply, as I have pointed out we have a valid support contract.... quick question for people and tom_newton IF I have a valid Smoothwall support contract, surely Support...
View ArticleTSOHost no longer supporting sch.uk domain
Hi Anyone else got this email Attachment 71015 (https://www.edugeek.net/attachments/forums/internet-related-filtering-firewall/71015-tsohost-no-longer-supporting-sch-uk-domain-tsohost.jpg) Any...
View ArticleSchools Broadband
Anyone having issues today? We have had no connection since 1am and no signs of when a fix is coming.
View ArticleExa Quantumn Plus
Good Afternoon. Quick one really. I'm curious to know what on-site firewall \ router schools are using in conjunction with EXA Quantum plus.
View ArticleSmoothwall filtering
Hello all, I took over for the previous Tech Director in a very small school system. I don't have extensive knowledge about the backend stuff. Anyway, our old Smoothwall appliance failed and we...
View ArticleSchoolsbroadband Incident Management Platform
Any one using Schoolsbroadband's Incident Management Platform. Place an order a month ago, was asked for end user details/email and then heard nothing more. After chasing multiple times I am being told...
View ArticleSmoothwall cloud filter ad blocking stopping Youtube going full screen
Has anyone else seen this? This appears to have started happening today. Using Smoothwall cloud filter with an advert blocking policy in place I now can't make a YouTube video play full screen - the...
View ArticleSmoothwall / Chromebooks
Sorry, this might turn into a bit of a long post! Looking at the best way to filter our Chromebooks. They are all being used on-site with no immediate plans to let them go off-site. (Primary School) I...
View ArticleSchoolsbroadband, speed issues, connectivity?
Anyone else? Event ID#1055 on hub suggests issue yesterday? We are seeing :- Long google search resolution times Wildix phone system drops Speed tests fluctuating wildly
View ArticlePreventing Chrome and Edge extensions
Hello All, I have been getting a lot of tickets relating to 'kids playing games in lessons' from staff using the IT Suites (why they arent issuing detentions etc for this I dont know..), so far I have...
View ArticleYouTube Videos
Morning All, Is anyone having issues with YouTube videos? We are getting multiple reports of anything from Harry Potter, Jaws advert, Pearl Harbor. We are a Windows school using Smoothwall but...
View ArticleSmoothwall VPN MFA
Are there any plans for Smoothwall to implement MFA on their VPN solutions? In 2024, that might be a big tick to cover what's easily it's weakest point. The documentation says "at the time of...
View ArticleSMTP email from Excel Macro using Office 365
I've got the ReportSender spreadsheet from the SIMS Success Team (here (https://customer.support-ess.com/csm?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0036575)). Run by itself, by double-clicking, it...
View ArticleSOPHOS: ArRRRGGGH Secure Client isolating our clients!
Anybody else had this? Sophos is isolating devices that attempt run the WJEC secure client. We had this last year and reported the false positive to sophos and WJEC. I didn't put an exception in as i...
View ArticleSmoothwall On-Prem, Cloud Filter and YouTube Issue
Hi all, For years now, we've had our Smoothwall on-premises box and Cloud Filter linked up and we had a custom category which allowed us to allow specific YouTube videos while blocking access to the...
View ArticleSmoothwall Speed
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone here has a S15 appliance with a 10Gbps Leased Line connection? We recently moved to 10Gbps on the understanding that the firewall was capable of near these speeds, but...
View ArticleLightspeed Filter and Alert
Hi everyone, I'm just doing some testing of Lightspeed Filter and Alert. Wondered if I could get some feedback from those who already have it in production and what they think of it. Mainly from an...
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