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I managed to find a complete list of addresses in the end, but the only way we've found so far to block apps effectively is to make our DNS servers authoritative for the domains that the apps are trying to reach. but it's a nigh on impossible task trying to keep up with the apps that are popping up. the number of proxy bypass applicatuions available on the itunes store is ridiculous and clearly it's unfeasible to find destination addresses for every app, block and then whitelist accordingly. MDM isn't an option either as cost is too high, around £30 per user per annum for an MDM solution that allows us to control app access whilst students are on site. The meraki solution looks OK, but still does not allow control over what apps can be used and which cannot. The ideal solution would be app whitelisiting and blacklisting on say a bloxx box or smoothy. (or equivalent piece of hardware) is anyone aware of anything? Our Bloxx renewal is due this summer and we could really do with something that allows greater control over in app, internet access.

does anyone know what ESSA are doing about controlling what apps students can and can't use, we are having a nightmare here, even down to things like puffin browser. which uses cloud based servers to handle the traffic and therefore bypass our content filtering. We can't block SSL traffic on ipads either because we have to let them go out transparently. The reason for this is that if you have to have the ipads going out with proxy settings in, those proxy settings only get passed on to an app if a developer has built proxy support into their app.

Not really an option as these are ipads, so group policy doesn't apply.

Has anyone tried this? we have a Bloxx box, quite happily blocking facebook through safari, I.E etc. Princiaplly as those programmes access facebook through URL. The ipad app however uses a whole range of destination I.Ps to access, rather than URL. I have set up static routes, which work in part by preventing the login part of the facebook app from working. However, sometimes it will allow you to log in. and once logged in, that's it, full facebook access. we are not using MDM, as the students all own their ipads, and we are unable to implement MDM for this reason any ideas?

have any schools got their own ebay account set up? we have a load of old toners and inks the school don't just want to throw away and I was wondering if the school had to register as a charity or business with e-bay to do this. any advice?

OK, i've approached this a slightly different way and added the Bloxx authentication details into the proxy settings of the ipad. My issue now is that despite adding these setting, the ipad constantly prompts for authentication details. I notice that the BBC news app prompts for username, password and domain. In the ipad settings however you're only asked for username and password. Entering the username in the format of domain/user seems to have no effect. Another issue I have is that because we have an ISA server I cannot just allow non-authenticated users out on the unfiltered proxy either (cheers Microsoft for that 'feature') So Either I have to go out via BLOXX or hand out unfiltered proxy settings to users. (no way Jose!) Any ideas anyone?

At the moment, we are just testing with a small group of users, and the teacher wants to use the wireless capabilities rather than the 3g capabilities, is there any way we can get this to work, with our current authnticated proxy solution?

We are currently beginning the early phases of an Ipad project here at Clevedon school, One of the issues we have is that filtering is provided by a BLOXX box, requiring authentication against a user account. We have already had major issues with Ipads and HTTPS, but are wondering how we get around the 'enter username and password' issue, eventually every student in the school will have one of these and we will need to retain filtering