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Morning All, We have been a smoothwall customer for several years now, no real problems to report. Until... We have been using the iOS SW browser for a while now. We have been having problems with devices being double filtered whilst onsite. The "Secret Knock" and the Rules to bypass the on-prem smoothwall appliances have been in place from the beginning. From speaking to SW support, i understand that the secret knock feature doesn't work for iOS devices? So we are now looking at our pupil VLANS to create a bypass rule on the on-prem appliance. Just wanted to see if anyone else has had any experience with iOS / SW browser and the same problems we are facing. Thanks

We have Smoothwall S15 appliances, connected to Aruba 8200 core switches. We have been using gbics.com for all of our gbics, they have always been very helpful in finding which are compatible.

Yes, we hide safari and only allow the Smoothwall iOS browser (Firefox) We too have found problems with the Microsoft iOS apps, we have seen that the applications trying to use the native Safari app for it's applications. We use JAMF to allow these URLs though for the application. (So it's not filtering, it's just saying, if you are this URL allow safari to use it in the background)

Hi, We have been using for around 6 months. It has helped me out and has provided some good information for senior leadership. We haven't installed the client as of yet, only the external testing which is scheduled to run once per day. (To test all of our forward facing systems)

I use the basic version of the platform. Mainly to keep an eye on all of our external facing systems. From school systems, to school websites. The scheduled alerts show us, if a configuration has been done wrong and a port is open externally that shouldn't be. Another security layer for us.

Hi Tom, Thanks for the information. Looking forward to the developments for the cloud reporting side. And if there is any way of accessing this sooner, please let me know our School would be happy to test. Regards

Morning All, We recently moved back to Smoothwall for our Schools. We are utilizing the hybrid model for filtering and the Smoothwall browser for our pupil devices. The cloud reporting is good, certainly a lot easier to use!. Question, any ideas on a timeline for automated filtering reports to be implemented on to the cloud filter? Or how you currently can do this? Thanks Matt

Afternoon All, I would like to get some feedback on the use of MS services (Power Apps, Power BI, Co-Pilot). We can foresee that these services will become fundamental to core systems going forward. But wanted to see how other Schools use these systems and for what functions? I know that Co-Pilot is fairly new, but would anyone have any information on licensing for Education? (As I can only find pricing for Enterprise E3 / E5) Thanks Matt

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- - - Updated - - - Hi, Could I ask a question? You mentioned its around £100 per month.. How many VMs is this for? How many hours is this for per day / Month? Whats the Sepc of the VMs? Thanks

Hi All, We are looking into the functions of U-EV and our upcoming deployment of Windows 10 1809. But we are finding the the templates are not being applied. We setup a Notepad template, but when we login into a domain PC as a user, this notepad template isn't being applied. Any ideas? Thanks Matt We have followed the post below for a basic u-ev setup: From PeterH - Edugeek user. "OK I have just spent the best part of the last week battling with UE-V on Windows 10. There are a number of caveats and in our experience it is less than perfect, but the general configuration outlined below seems to work for us. So to start with, UE-V is part of the latest builds of Windows 10. There is no agent to install - it is already there and simply needs switching on. To configure UE-V, it is best done with group policy. Again, if you are using the latest Windows 10 ADMX templates, the UE-V configuration items will be there already. Firstly to configure UE-V, you will will need two network shares on a server somewhere. The first one is the Settings Storage Location, which is where each user's UE-V settings packages will be stored. The second is the Settings Template Catalogue, which contains the settings templates. These tell UE-V where each application stores is settings, so it knows which file / registry locations to sync. You can find a guide to creating these and the permissions you need here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mic...-2x-both-uevv2. However the permissions specified in that document did not work for us! So this is what we used to get it working: Settings Storage Location (e.g. \\server1\uev-settings) Share Permissons Domain Admins: Full Control Domain Users: Full Control NTFS Permissions Domain Admins: Full Control: This folder, subfolders and files Domain Users: List folder / Read Data, Create Folders / Append Data: This folder only Creator Owner: Full Control: Subfolders and Files Only Settings Template Catalogue (e.g. \\server1\uev-templates) Share Permissions Domain Admins: Full Control Domain Computers: Full Control NTFS Permissions Domain Admins: Full Control: This folder, subfolders and files Domain Computers: Modify: This folder, subfolders and files Once you have created your shares, you can configure UE-V using group policy. UE-V is configured in both Computer Configuration and User Configuration. There are a number of settings you will find in Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Microsoft User Experience Virtualization. The settings we made are as follows. Some things can be configured both in Computer and User configuration, so I'm not sure which is best practise, but the following works for us: Computer Configuration Sync Method: None (note that this actually disables the UE_V Sync provider and establishes a direct file connection to the settings storage path. In testing, we found this to be much more reliable) Enable UEV: Enabled (note the auto-register inbox templates option doesn’t seem to work on Windows 10 1709, some searching online suggested this is no longer supported) First Use Notification: Disabled Settings Template Catalog Path: e.g. \\server1\uev-templates Sync unlisted Windows apps: Enabled Synchroinze Windows Settings: Enable all Tray Icon: Disabled Use user Experience Virtualisation: Enabled User Configuration Do not synchronise Windows Apps: Disabled Settings Storage Path: e.g. \\server1\uev-settings\%username% (note you need %username% to create a folder for each user in the settings storage location) Synchronise Windows Settings: Enabled Use User Experience Virtualisation: Enabled Having created all of the above, you need to copy the Microsoft UEV settings templates from a Windows 10 computer into your settings template catalogue share. On 1709, these may be found in C:\ProgramData\microsoft\uev\inboxtemplates - just copy the files over. If you need any additional settings templates, there is a settings location template gallery here: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=246589. There are some templates to help with roaming desktop settings and pinned items on the taskbar and so on. Reboot one of your workstations and you should find UE-V is working. You can use Powershell to test it, the following commands may be useful: Get-UevConfiguration: This should show that SyncEnabled is True and it should show the settings storage path and the settings template catalog path that you configured in GPO Get-UevTemplate: This should display a list of imported UEV templates and will confirm that your settings template catalog path is working correctly. Finally, as each user logs in, it should create a folder for that user in your UEV Settings Location, containing the settings packages for that account (note that these are in hidden folders so you will not see them unless you are showing hidden files/folders in explorer) There are a few additional items you can set in the registry to configure the UE-V agent. These are all in HLKM\Software\Microsoft\UEV\Agent\Configuration: RepositoryOwnerCheckEnabled:REG_DWORD=1 (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mic...-2x-both-uevv2) WaitForSyncOnLogon: REG_DWORD: 1 and WaitForSyncOnApplicationStart: REG_DWORD: 1 (we found setting these seemed to make syncing of pinned taskbar items more reliable) There are a few issues we have discovered and there will be other things I'm sure that crop up: Roaming Outlook profiles with UE-V is not supported (see https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/...-not-supported). You may have issues with roaming Outlook signatures also, because the default signature is referenced in the Outlook profile. Roaming IE Favorites with UE-V works OK, but Edge Favorites don't roam and is not supported and neither do any other Edge settings. Thanks Microsoft. No wonder people are switching to Chrome. We still have a few issues roaming Office 2016 toolbar settings, which don't seem to work very reliably."

Caterham School Welcome to Caterham School, an independent, co-educational day and boarding school, Surrey, England. IT Technician Circa £24,000 Caterham School is one of the top independent co-educational schools in England. But there’s more to our success than academic excellence, good facilities and well-rounded pupils. You will also discover a friendly, supportive, caring and professional environment and nowhere are those qualities more visible than amongst our support staff. You will provide a whole-school digital learning support service as part of our IT support team, including maintenance of existing equipment and software as well as playing key role in any upgrading our systems in the future. This role will also involve giving hands-on classroom support, using your expertise to prepare and maintain digital learning equipment including all Apple devices from iPad’s through to Mac computers. In addition, you will support staff with interactive whiteboards, interactive TVs and media devices. You will also attend school groups and clubs to offer advice and ideas to pupils and to support the Director of Digital Learning in designing, planning and implementing new approaches to digital classroom learning. Technical skills: AD and GP Administration Office 365 Administration Endpoint deployment & backup configuration (Veeam and Dell KACE) In-Depth knowledge of PC hardware and the ability to diagnose faulty components correctly Knowledge of Sophos Anti Virus and how to diagnose potential security threats within the School system Knowledge of Educational filtering systems and how to perform 1st line checks and tasks. For further information and to apply for this post, please visit the School website at Vacancies

Caterham School IT Support Department Senior IT Technician (Digital) The Role: Digital Learning has become a highly significant area of development over the last 5 years at Caterham School, resulting in us recently being acknowledged as an Apple Distinguished School for the work we have done in successfully integrating Apple technology into teaching and learning. The Senior It Technician (Digital) will be instrumental in not only maintaining the current high standards of our Digital Learning provision, but in helping the school advance them further. You will work closely with both the IT Systems Manager and the Director of Innovation to ensure that Caterham continues to offer outstanding support and solutions to its students and staff when it comes to mobile technology and Apple-based systems. Whilst you will have the all-round skills of an outstanding IT Technician, you will need to know Apple technology (particularly iPad and OSX) very well, and preferably in an educational setting where DEP, VPP and AD-integration of Mac computers has been utilized. This is a senior role within the department, and as such you will be expected to mentor the IT Technician (Senior School) so that you have an additional line of support in completing your day-to-day duties. Managed by the IT Systems manager, the Bursar has overall responsibility for support staff throughout the School Salary circa. £28,000 dependent upon skills and experience. The closing date for applications is Friday 17th June at 12:00 noon Links: Caterham School: Welcome to Caterham School, an independent, co-educational day and boarding school, Surrey, England. Caterham School vacancies: Supporting Staff

Caterham School IT Support Department IT Technician (Prep with AV Support) To provide a whole school IT support, as a member of the wider IT support team, for both students and staff with a focus on ‘hands on’ classroom support. The IT Technician (Prep) will be primarily based in the Prep and Pre-Prep School though the role will require flexibility. This post will also work with and deputize for the AV Technician when required. The post-holder will work all year round, a flexible 37½ hours per week, usually between 8.30 am and 5.00 pm including a total of one hour of unpaid break per day to be taken on a rota basis. Participation in out of hours work will also be required. The working year is 52 weeks including paid holiday entitlement. Holiday entitlement is a pro-rated 5 weeks in addition to bank holidays. Salary circa £25,000 dependent upon skills and experience. Salaries are reviewed annually on 1st September. There is a probationary period of six months and the appointment is subject to employment vetting checks including satisfactory references and a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The closing date for applications is Wednesday 15th June at 12:00 noon. Link to Vacancies: Supporting Staff Link to Caterham School website: Welcome to Caterham School, an independent, co-educational day and boarding school, Surrey, England.

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Hi, When I try to open a Power Point file with Shockwave flash object Links in, it comes up with an error: "Power Point found a problem with content in "File.pptx". Power Point can attempt to repair the presentation. If you trust the source of this presentation, click repair." Then I click on Repair. This then comes up "Some controls on this presentation cant be activated. They might not be registered on this computer" Then it comes up with. "Power Point couldn't read some content in file.pptx [Repaired] and removed it. Please check your presentation to see if the rest of it is ok" We have changed the settings in the trust centre, I have enabled all macros, un ticked protected view options. Also enabled all controls for Active X. Un installed and re installed Office.Also tried to save as a different file format, still didn't work. I have tried a different PC. Thanks Matt

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Hi, Thanks for this, we have spoken to Smooth wall before about the Decrypt and Inspect. We have this enabled and deployed the CA cert to the Ipad. However, this caused problems for other applications. I presume it was trying to Decrypt and Inspect these too. I have had many phone calls regarding this with smooth-wall, every-time we have never got it to work correctly... OB, if you would like my details I can PM them to you.

Thanks, It would be good to see if it works for you.

Thanks all for the replies. I seem to be struggling with sorting this out. I have spoken to Smooth-wall. The response I have had back wasn't very positive.

Morning all, Hopefully someone will be able to shed some light on this subject. Filtering comments within YouTube (Using the IPad App or Safari). Can this be done? Has anyone successfully done this? Thanks Matt

Hi all, I am trying to enable Youtube saftey mode within Smoothwall. (Enforce saftey mode and disable the coments) I have searched and found a number of posts regarding how todo this, but that was back in 2010/2011. Smoothwall has chnaged its layout since then. Any help? Matt

Hi All, We have Google safe search on for Students, and Google images points to HTTP (Not HTTPS). Is there anyway to block certain key words from Google Images?

Independent boarding school in Surrey. BYOD policy in place for 6th form. Wireless throughout the site. Feel free to PM me if needed

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