Popular Post bizzel Posted July 13, 2008 Popular Post Posted July 13, 2008 I do, so here's a present for you. I know AUP Informant is far from perfect, let's have a quick look at the issues: Requires messing with a config file No MSI for deployment No CC3 package Not always possible to give staff and students different policies Limited choice of when to show policies Well I've been busy and I should have a beta version of AUP Informant 2 and AUP Informant Policy Server (AIPS) ready for you in the holidays! What's new? Read on... http://www.paulbeesley.com/AIPS/main.jpg The app is now split into two parts, the client which displays the policies on the local machine and the server, where you can configure settings. That means no more configuration, just deploy the MSI or CC3 package (I can make both of them now) and off you go! http://www.paulbeesley.com/AIPS/policy.jpg You can set three types of policy in AUP Informant 2, one for staff, one for students and a generic policy for any other type of user (maybe guest users, temp staff, etc). You can also now choose when the policy is shown and you have a lot more options open to you. http://www.paulbeesley.com/AIPS/mail.jpg No huge changes to the email notifications here, just an option to have multiple recipients, which never hurts. http://www.paulbeesley.com/AIPS/ad.jpg Saving the best for last. Yep, that's Active Directory integration right there (or it would be if the screenshot wasn't on my home machine). Assign policies to groups, individual users or entire domains! What else would you like to see? Get your ideas in early and I'll see what I can do! 15
GrumbleDook Posted July 13, 2008 Posted July 13, 2008 Looking good. I'll point it out at the next local meeting (September)
Sylv3r Posted July 13, 2008 Posted July 13, 2008 Looks real good - i'll give it a play once it gets a full release.
Hightower Posted July 13, 2008 Posted July 13, 2008 @Bizzel - That's some good sh*t there! Can't wait for the release
strawberry Posted July 13, 2008 Posted July 13, 2008 what does this software do, i do not understand What doesn't it do!. Basically it allows you to produce an acceptable use policy automatically. you can base the automation on a mixture of time and groupings. it can then record the response in several ways and you can set an automatic reponse. have a lil look round the projects forum.
SteveMC Posted July 13, 2008 Posted July 13, 2008 Looking great - I've shown the current version to a couple of schools we support, and they really like it. Just got to get them to finish their actual policies now
bizzel Posted July 14, 2008 Author Posted July 14, 2008 I forgot to mention, a new option is to disable the account in active directory if the user declines the policy. You can use that if you're feeling particularly nasty!
Sylv3r Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 I forgot to mention, a new option is to disable the account in active directory if the user declines the policy. You can use that if you're feeling particularly nasty! A good option but will probably lead to more work for the ICT Support team initially.
strawberry Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 I forgot to mention, a new option is to disable the account in active directory if the user declines the policy. You can use that if you're feeling particularly nasty! I am
mcloum Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 Looks great, i mentioned this to my line manager today as its something i need to get nailed down before the academy comes along. Maybe an option would be (for ISA server users at least) to add the users to a security group which is denied access on the firewall if they decline the AUP. And remove them if they agree? That would be helpful to me at least. Looking forward to testing this. Mike
GrumbleDook Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 That would work for us as we map our Smoothwall groups against security groups in AD ... move the group and they get a more restrictive internet account :-D
Theblacksheep Posted July 21, 2008 Posted July 21, 2008 WOW! you have been putting some work in! Looking great! Its been interesting to see AUP in action. It been qute funny the students that decline it by default! As for some requests as its in development: It would be great to have a custom message box dialogues that can be chosen to display after both 'accept' and 'deny' options. It would also be great to choose an option on 'deny': Message, log-off, log-off and reshow AUP (so decline logs off again), limit account, nothing etc.
bizzel Posted August 13, 2008 Author Posted August 13, 2008 The short answer is "quite some time". I know a lot of summer builds are done right around now but I won't be finished in time for that. Realistically, late October / early November is my target. It's a busy time for me as I'll be off to uni at the start of October and that'll put a spanner in the works for sure. Worst of all, when I leave I won't have a network to test on! I've been taking feedback into account as I work. I forget who requested being able to move users between groups but that's in now. To give you an idea of where I've got to, here's roughly where each component stands: Client Interface - 80% Config backend - 25% AD backend - 25% Mail backend - 100% Network backend- 50% Reports - 10%
mcloum Posted August 15, 2008 Posted August 15, 2008 nice work. I'll have a crack at setting up the old version this week then as i need something for the new year 7s in september and new staff. Any detailed instructions on how the best way to set it up? cheers
Theblacksheep Posted August 15, 2008 Posted August 15, 2008 Bizzle, when you get to an appropriate stage to test, let me know and I can help out.
bizzel Posted August 19, 2008 Author Posted August 19, 2008 I'll be sure to send you a beta version as soon as I get to that stage. In the meantime, I've finished work on the client interface which I think is a big improvement. If anyone wants to give feedback on it, now's the time. Check the blog post here for information and screenshots. Feel free to leave a comment there or post here, I'll check both. To answer a couple of questions about the design: Yes, it does add a transparent background Yes, that can be disabled The titlebar message can be changed The header image can't be changed yet. If this is something enough people want, I'll change that.
IrritableTech Posted August 19, 2008 Posted August 19, 2008 Much improved, looking forward to the new version. No suggestions, I think you have covered it.
Theblacksheep Posted August 19, 2008 Posted August 19, 2008 I'll be sure to send you a beta version as soon as I get to that stage. In the meantime, I've finished work on the client interface which I think is a big improvement. If anyone wants to give feedback on it, now's the time. Check the blog post here for information and screenshots. Feel free to leave a comment there or post here, I'll check both. To answer a couple of questions about the design: Yes, it does add a transparent background Yes, that can be disabled The titlebar message can be changed The header image can't be changed yet. If this is something enough people want, I'll change that. Woo hoo, looking a nice blend between XP and vista! By the header image do you mean the 'acceptable usage policy'? If so I would personally like to simply add 'School' to the font of it as many students just thought it was a normal/internet pop-up box and get rid of it straight away!
bizzel Posted August 19, 2008 Author Posted August 19, 2008 The header image is the vista-style aurora saying "Acceptable Usage Policy". At the moment the text is part of the image but it should be easy enough to change that in future.
Hightower Posted August 20, 2008 Posted August 20, 2008 Looking forward to getting my hands on this like many others
FN-GM Posted August 31, 2008 Posted August 31, 2008 Ah, version 2 looks much better. I look forward to the release. Z
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