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Unfortunately not, but usually you can instead enter an IP range that their ISP uses. Of course it depends on what you are going to open and for what if it is a good solution.

Smoothwall has had one for quite a few years. But it is not marketed directly in the UK, as the focus is on the other products. More info can be found here:https://smoothwall.com/solutions/classwize the latest features are not included. I don't know how it works with a trial license in the UK, but you can definitely get a demo of the product.

Hi HyperTech, the price is quite low on Smoothwall Classwize, but it also depends on how many students you have. If you are already a customer, contact your contact person, otherwise send an email to [email protected] Tom is not working on prices and is probably quite busy with the Bett fair. The product has many good features such as the teacher can have their own favorites that means that all the tabs the student needs to be opened at once. The teacher can share their screen with the whole class or only selected students. Also good if you have a USB microscope connected, for example, so you don't have to darken it but just share the screen. If you have Google, all classes are taken from Google Classroom so you are up and running in no time..

Hi Tefters, I have looked through your test results. I can't comment on the monitor solution, as it is not something we use. But the filter is guaranteed to be the best on the Swedish market, as it can handle many different languages ​​(including Swedish), which is a big problem as we have many immigrants who always search in their native language to get past the filtering. It is also common for students to use different translation services for entire websites, so they get past filters that don't look at the content. Google has now stopped the big porn sites but not drugs etc. Therefore, you should probably only look at web filters that look at the content in real time, as Smoothwall does. I immediately found the error why your searches for knife were not blocked. Smoothwall has a very good function where you enter several words that must be in the search for it to be blocked and that is what you have done as all the search words are on the same line... So try doing a search with all the words, you should see that the search is blocked. This is not entirely clear in the interface, as it only states "Required" in red, but they should have told you about that feature when they set it up. I don't know if knives are a big problem in the UK, but it's probably difficult to block so that you don't overblock pages with knives, food and crafts. Then it's an extremely much bigger problem in Swedish schools with various AI apps that make nudes from regular images, for example, this https://undress.appIt happens that nude images of teachers and students are shared between students. Therefore, it is important to also look at the images themselves, which Smoothwall is already doing as a test in the USA. I also know that Smoothwall is looking at whether to create a new category for this, today they are classified as porn. The support usually works well, but unfortunately it happens that those who are not yet customers are missed. My advice is to be on your customer contact to get a proper overview of what the system is capable of and how to handle the different settings.

iPad and cert are often not so fun... Please take a look at Smoothwall Cloud Filter, maybe not the prettiest solution with its own browser, but it works very well.https://kb.smoothwall.com/hc/en-us/sections/14416737869084-Apple-iOS

You can have Google and 365 with the same domain, you can also have the emails in both. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1630335/how-to-use-google-workspace-for-email-and-keep-mic

You can use the same domain you have today for 365. You just need to verify that you own that domain. Then you create a sync from Entra to Google.. Don't know if this is the right article https://cloud.google.com/architecture/identity/federating-gcp-with-azure-ad-configuring-provisioning-and-single-sign-on You can turn PCs into Chromebooks. https://chromeenterprise.google/intl/en_gb/os/chromeosflex/ In Google admin, add the Smoothwall extension according to this KB (Smoothwall Cloud Filter is free) https://kb.smoothwall.com/hc/en-us/articles/360008478500-Installing-the-Smoothwall-Cloud-Filter-on-Chromebooks-using-Google-Admin

Sweden has had many computers in schools for a long time. That is, you are very used to handling Windows computers both for students and administrative staff. Today, it is not strange to lock down a Windows computer so that it works well in a school environment as well as at home as we have 1:1 and it is common for all students from around grades 3-5 to take the computer home. Chromebooks are cheap and also easy to handle. Chromebooks for the younger ages are often used with a touch screen so that you can use it as a tablet. You link accounts from your Microsoft environment to Google. From around grade 7, you often have access to Office 365 regardless of whether you use Chromebooks or PCs, this is so that the students can properly learn how to handle World and Excel, etc. as most companies use these programs. As for the higher grades, it is almost exclusively PC, this because you often need different software in the education where there are no web applications. It is very common that after three years you take these PCs and convert them into Chromebooks, which works very well. A good solution for all computers that cannot handle Windows 11, but no problem with Chrome OS.

Of course, you must have an MDM solution, so that students cannot access the activity manager, etc. The client currently works in both Edge and Chrome. Very good instructions how to distribute the client via Intune. https://kb.smoothwall.com/hc/en-us/sections/14416649318300-Windows Smoothwall is developing a new client that will also handle web traffic that does not come from a browser. As many apps today sometimes have their own built-in software. However, that filter will only be a DNS filter, so of course you should not approve all programs to be installed on the students' computers. Here you will find more information on how to set up the students' PCs using the School PCs app and Intune. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/education/windows/suspcs/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/configuration/device-restrictions-windows-10

If you also use Google EDU, there is an extremely good product for homework quizzes and tests. https://www.trelson.com However, it costs 4 Euros per student and year. If you are a larger school, please contact me, and we can probably fix a slightly better price.

In Sweden and many other countries in Europe, Safe Exam Browser is used instead, which is completely free to use. https://safeexambrowser.org/about_overview_en.html

We have tested the twelve "new" links mentioned. All of these are classified as "Web Proxies" by Smoothwall. There are hundreds of new such pages every day and YouTube is full of links to them.. But since Smoothwall looks at the content itself and not just at the domain/URL, everyone who uses the same technology is stopped. It's very rare that someone doesn't get caught by Smoothwall content filters, but it's always good to keep your eyes open and verify for yourself that they're getting blocked. If you find one that isn't being caught, report it directly to Smoothwall, so they can ensure that all other similar sites are blocked as well.

It is the self-made Smoothwall client that is no longer available, as there are now many free clients that work very well, Smoothwall no longer needs to make its own. The support for different VPNs in Smoothwall is very good.

I really recommend that you use "System internal DNS server" as DNS quite often gets overloaded with long response times and timeouts. Try the response time of different "DNS forwarders" at different times when you have students in place. Sometimes the provider's DNS can be overloaded. So also try with at least Google 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 + Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Then you need to make sure that you specify the reverse lookup zone for your conditional DNS forwarders and that you make sure that the DNS Proxy (53) is open for service for all subnets under "Smoothwall access" See this KB for more info:https://kb.smoothwall.com/hc/en-us/articles/15301651296156-Add-new-DNS-forwarders-or-hosts

If you use Smoothwall, they have solved a lot of the problems with using a native browser. It also works with shared devices see this KB. https://kb.smoothwall.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410521366162-Additional-Configuration-Options-for-Shared-iPads

A little other input... Many countries in Europe use https://www.safeexambrowser.org/news_en.html Works on many platforms.

I can only answer what concerns the Smoothwall Filter Outside UK (Sweden) The language support is very good in Smoothwall and of course they have focused on the most important categories such as suicide etc. Here you will find a list of all languages ​​that Smoothwall Filter currently supports... https://kb.smoothwall.com/hc/en-us/articles/12780179073052-What-languages-are-supported-by-the-Web-Filter Smoothwall quickly added support for Ukrainianas when refugees began to arrive. They have also entered Finnish, which only about 5 million people speak. I don't think you need to worry about the function if you use Smoothwall Cloud Filter. The filter sits i.a. in the browser itself and if you have done what you have to do on school computers, the filter will work even if the cloud service goes down.

We have seen many systems where it is something other than Smoothwall that is at fault when there are long response times on just one network.. Everything from switches to AP points with too many users.. Also DHCP problems with too short Default lease time as well as other Broadcast problems.. Try resetting the switch and the AP points and check the traffic with Wireshark if there is anything strange on the network... I have also seen that the switch has been set to 100 Mbit/s on some ports....

In Sweden, we often see that students hide a phone in their pocket on which they have Internet sharing. Very common with free surfing on phones in Sweden. Which means that they can surf freely on the school computer at school, as many schools today only have the web filter in the school network, which many are now reviewing.

Have you checked how DNS is set up? You should use "System internal DNS server" to save bandwidth and make surfing faster. Also check different response times regarding different DNS forwarders. Sometimes the ISP is significantly slower than e.g. Google 8.8.8.8 or Cloudflare 1.1.1.1

Connect uses MobileProxy. Have you now switched to Maiden where Connect is no longer available? If not, I think a move to Maiden would make a very big difference.

Have you tried dual filters? By turning off Secret Knock. A Proxy helps with low bandwidth and many users on the same pages..

Hi, I don't know what the settings look like in an S9 but increasing the SYN backlog queue size usually helps a bit... You can find the setting under Network-Settings-Advanced Even upgrading to Maiden can help, if they don't already have it..

As long as your browser is signed in to Google or Microsoft with your school account, Smoothwall Cloud Reporting will work.

What happens if you use Categories Search tools? In Maiden, the content filter also appears... As you can see, this site is classified as porn in our system and yes is blocked for the clients.