fiza Posted May 20, 2018 Posted May 20, 2018 So it looks like transparent proxy is achievable with Netsweeper. https://www.empsn.org.uk/2018/05/03/netsweeper-bring-in-transparent-filtering/ Is this something SchoolsBroadband are going to implement? @SchoolsBroadband - Dave please tell me this is something on the horizon for your customers.
SchoolsBroadband Posted May 21, 2018 Posted May 21, 2018 So it looks like transparent proxy is achievable with Netsweeper. https://www.empsn.org.uk/2018/05/03/netsweeper-bring-in-transparent-filtering/ Is this something SchoolsBroadband are going to implement? The standard Netsweeper transparent solution does not work in our environment. The reason being is that we have numerous schools that have the same internal IP address range and Netsweeper in its current form can't support this requirement. As indicated though we are looking into a number of options at the moment to give our customers what they are asking for (Google Auth integration, Radius support and other features). Please watch this space on further update developments some of which I'm hoping I can divulge in the next few weeks depending on results of alpha / beta testing. I do not want to categorically confirm any solution until its fully tested as I don't want to set expectations incorrectly. I'm hopeful we will have a worlds 1st with our Netsweeper solution coming very soon so again watch this space Dave 1
tj2419 Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 Anyone else keep getting battered by the Google Captcha screen saying your school is doing too many google search requests? Yesterday, wouldn't even come up with the picture we had done that many. Nothing has changed usage wise. It's getting really frustrating as we are a G Suite school.
BrotherSidious Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 We have had google issues since last week. Students having to use Bing at the moment.
Lee-H Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 Anyone else keep getting battered by the Google Captcha screen saying your school is doing too many google search requests? Yesterday, wouldn't even come up with the picture we had done that many. Nothing has changed usage wise. It's getting really frustrating as we are a G Suite school. Yep we are getting this all the time and it is getting a bit annoying, i have contacted SB and they have said they cannot do anything about it but are working with Google Never use to happen when we were on lightspeed though
BrotherSidious Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 Yep we are getting this all the time and it is getting a bit annoying, i have contacted SB and they have said they cannot do anything about it but are working with Google Never use to happen when we were on lightspeed though When we contacted SB last week we had the same response. Not sure how long this is going to take to resolve.
tj2419 Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 I am having to cancel a whole school training event tonight because its using Google Forms and it wont load them without the captcha warning and asking for about 5 image checks per user which is just not going to work! Breach of SLA?
Jawloms Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 I got the same response from SchoolsBroadband on 23/5/18. Haven't had it for a while though here to be fair.......
RobMason Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 Afternoon all, Just to confirm, this has been raised with Google (to the best of our ability) as our proxy IPs should be on their whitelists. It looks like something at their end has changed. I will update you all when I have any news and in the meantime can only apologise for the inconvenience Thanks 2
Blue_Cookeh Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 I am having to cancel a whole school training event tonight because its using Google Forms and it wont load them without the captcha warning and asking for about 5 image checks per user which is just not going to work! Breach of SLA? It's not really SchoolsBroadband's fault. Many large organisations, ISPs, schools/universities have this problem because Google can be overzealous or change random stuff without telling anyone. If anything it's Google's fault. 4
Squelch Posted June 19, 2018 Posted June 19, 2018 It's not really SchoolsBroadband's fault Have to agree with this, I'm not a SB customer and have been having the same google issues for several weeks. 3
stevenramsden Posted June 25, 2018 Posted June 25, 2018 Can anyone confirm if this is still an issue?
BrotherSidious Posted June 25, 2018 Posted June 25, 2018 It appears to have been working OK for us since Friday
peej2k Posted June 27, 2018 Posted June 27, 2018 Not seen this issue at all and I'm still on Lightspeed and still have no intention of moving away from it.
Blue_Cookeh Posted July 9, 2018 Posted July 9, 2018 @SchoolsBroadband is this Friday's new Netsweeper version going to include some juicy features for us or do we still need to wait? Very happy with SB now we've been on NS for a while - it's been seemingly rock solid. 1
SchoolsBroadband Posted July 9, 2018 Posted July 9, 2018 (edited) Lots of juicy features The biggest is Googleauth and proper LDAP integration (no more dir sync). There's also a lot more to come over the summer too Dave Edited July 9, 2018 by SchoolsBroadband 1
sister_annex Posted July 9, 2018 Posted July 9, 2018 Lots of juicy features The biggest is Googleauth and proper LDAP integration (no more dir sync). There's also a lot more to come over the summer too Dave More importantly (I have emailed Carole btw) is it going to work for the remaining week that our students are in and are we going to have to make any changes (thinking authportal) after the works
SchoolsBroadband Posted July 9, 2018 Posted July 9, 2018 More importantly (I have emailed Carole btw) is it going to work for the remaining week that our students are in and are we going to have to make any changes (thinking authportal) after the works Everything should stay as is and your auth portal will continue to function. The upgrade puts us in good stead for more major work we're doing in the summer where we'll be rolling out a new major configuration option for schools (new and old) thanks Dave 1
clockend25 Posted July 9, 2018 Posted July 9, 2018 Are we meant to have had an email about the upgrade?
SchoolsBroadband Posted July 9, 2018 Posted July 9, 2018 Are we meant to have had an email about the upgrade? Yes, its gone out to contacts this morning to customers currently using Netsweeper only. Dave
clockend25 Posted July 9, 2018 Posted July 9, 2018 OK. You probably have an old address of mine on record.
SchoolsBroadband Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 Morning all, the upgrade to v6 went through fine on Wednesday evening. There's a nicer front end and a number of new features in there for you all to get stuck into Thanks Dave
fiza Posted July 20, 2018 Posted July 20, 2018 Morning all, the upgrade to v6 went through fine on Wednesday evening. There's a nicer front end and a number of new features in there for you all to get stuck into Thanks Dave Will Schools get told what the new features are and how to use them?
Edu-IT Posted August 26, 2018 Posted August 26, 2018 Lots of juicy features The biggest is Googleauth and proper LDAP integration (no more dir sync). There's also a lot more to come over the summer too Dave When will there be news on what has been worked on over Summer?
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