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In addition to the IP-CCTV event i'm organising with MOBOTIX, i'm also running one looking at wireless with Ruckus. Join Ruckus Wireless and Net-Ctrl at the Ruckus UK HQ (High Wycombe, HP10 0HH) as we delve into the Smart WiFi world and look at the Ruckus approach to dealing with common WiFi complaints. We will be joined by Scott Reeves, Ruckus Technical Director in EMEA and Stuart White our very own Senior Wireless Engineer who will both be taking the day's sessions and answering your questions. Join us on the 12th March from 10.00 and learn how to cause a Ruckus the right way. If you would like to attend, please send me a PM and I will reserve you a spot. Key Takeaways: Learn about the latest 802.11ac protocol Understand how Ruckus deals with common WiFi complaints Find out about other solutions that collaborate with Ruckus Take a look at the management platform behind the Ruckus system The Agenda 10:00 - 10:20 - Welcome and Registration. 10:20 - 10:40 - Net-Ctrl Introduction– A brief breakdown of Net-Ctrl and our history with Ruckus Wireless and working within education. 10:40 - 11:15 - Introduction into the wireless environment and 802.11ac protocol. 11:15 - 11:45 - The Ruckus approach to dealing with real world WiFi situations, and the benefits of their “secret sauce” – We will take a look at Ruckus' Smart WiFi technologies and special features that help make them market leaders. 11:45 - 12:10 - Ruckus RIOT partners overview - Ruckus work with industry leaders to help their customers utilise their Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi infrastructure. Find out about all their technology integrators. 12:10 - 12:30 - Net-Ctrl Cloud WLAN with Smart Access Management (SAM) integration - With the help of Net-Ctrl we can take your WLAN into the cloud. 12:30 - 12:45 - Take a look at what’s under the hood – We will be taking a tour through the Ruckus management console and showing you what happens "behind the scenes". 12:45 - 13:15 - Lunch and Networking. 13:15 - Ask the experts your wireless questions in our 'Open Floor' Q+A.

We currently use Barracuda firewall and Censornet for our web filtering. We now want to delve in deeper and setup keyword searching and alerts. Unfortunately it seems that this is an additional module on either device at a cost of more than what we are currently paying. Our senior school heavily use pupil owned devices which is where we get a bit stuck. There are web filtering solutions out there, but these rely on an agent being installed. You can imagine how that will go down, although Senior management believe they will be able to convince parents to install these, I am not confident in their persuasive ability. Does anyone know or use any device that can sit between their devices and the outside world, that doesn't need any additional software installing, but will do keyword searching, alerting etc, and quite importantly won't kill my budget.

Now that the new Cyber Essentials question set is requiring technical controls on BYOD device access to college resources, we're starting to test conditional access policies and compliance policies to achieve this. We've got a conditional access policy set up (scoped to just me as I'm testing at the moment) which should block noncompliant devices from accessing Microsoft 365, and an accompanying compliance policy that requires a minimum OS version (Android in my case). I've registered my device using Microsoft Authenticator (didn't know it could do that, but apparently it can) and verified in the Entra ID backend that the device exists in Entra and is correctly showing as a personally owned registered device. However when accessing the Outlook web app, I'm still getting blocked, and when I check the "Troubleshooting details" section it says my device is unregistered. How do I get it to recognise the device registration and let me in? Also, before I registered my device, it was doing the same thing - how do I get it to prompt me to register instead of just blocking?

onBoarder is one tool for B.Y.O.D deployments Integrating a BYOD solution into a school can be a daunting and complex undertaking. Cablers onBoarder is a secure, high performance BYOD in a box solution with low cost of ownership. With onBoarder schools can have the confidence to embrace their BYOD deployment without major changes to their existing infrastructure. Cablers BYOD in a box allows the school to pick the services they need for their BYOD solution including; DHCP DNS NAT Transparent services Radius authentication BYOD dashboard Bonjour gateway services NAC services Network services Client device network services are all delivered by onBoarder, no modifications to live or third party managed servers are required. IP ranges can be expanded and integrated into the existing network without complex modifications. Local proxy services allow the school to host an upstream proxy without delivering proxy IP or port details to end users or having to deploy a single school wide wpad configuration. Secure and simple onBoarders Radius server connects to the schools active directory ensuring uncompromised network security and reducing IT administrators workload with its single point management and unique client onboarding management interface. User and device management Cablers BYOD dashboard instantly gives the network managers access to a range of statistics including logged in users, bandwidth hoggers, backbone and internet bandwidth use. Check this blog out on edugeek for more details: BYOD - The Transparent Proxy Headache Solved - Blogs - EduGeek.net If you would like to discuss how onBoarder can help your school with a BYOD deployment then contact our helpful education team for some advice or PM me directly.

Hello everyone, A couple of questions regarding our Aruba Controller 3400 Managed Wireless system with 24 AP-105's. 1. We have been quoted for a 16 AP license upgrade to enable us to get one of the blocks on the Aruba system (Its currently on a 3COM system). Part of the quote has "Policy Enforcement Firewall" and "Wireless Intrusion Protection Module". These have added a considerable amount to the quote. My question is, are they required for the APs to work or can they be removed? 2. Does the 3400 controller support NAT? I only ask as our LEA provided Network Addresses are 10.208.208.0/21 so that only gives us 2,046 IP addresses. Therefore, to allow us the flexibility of providing BYOD capabilities, it would be good to be able to use another range of addresses, such as, 192.168.x.x. Would this be a feasible solution/idea? Any help and advice on these above points would be gratefully received. Thanks in advance. J_Worth.

Good morning all, Just had this video come through, its created by Ruckus Wireless on how to easily configure the ZoneFlex system to automatically provision, secure and classify users and their devices with your existing authentication server, thought it may be of interest to someone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUki6_lJPA

Hi Guys, I've had a look through the forums but can't see anything. At the moment in our college we have a large network of Xirrus Wifi points and allow students to connect their phones, tablets, etc up to them. The problem is, they have to manually input the proxy details for our filtering server to get out to the net. I've been trying to think of a way around this I could implement over summer, but WPAD doesn't seem to work well with mobile devices. Can anyone think of any ideas? Or is manual entry the best way? Cheers, Sam.

Hi guys, So after a lot of time spent wrestling with RADIUS at one of my schools we finally have a fairly stable NPS server setup on a win2008r2 box using Aruba Wireless points. There's just ONE thing that's an issue at the moment: If the device (in this example a netbook) goes to sleep/hibernates and tries to connect on waking it gives the messages "Cannot connect to .....". If I leave it for 5 minutes or so and then try to reconnect it's fine. Currently using PEAP/MSCHAPv2. Connection is stable initially and have tested roaming round the school and only get a few drops when pinging a server, mobile devices, iPads etc. all seem to be ok but it's just this 'immediate reconnection' issue that's the problem. Logs in system32\logfiles\ are inconclusive and event viewer doesn't point to anything. Any ideas? EDIT: It appears the problem is a little bigger than previously thought. My clients that have been connected for well over an hour have disconnected and need that few minutes of 'cooling off' before re-establishing connection! Restarting the NPS service doesn't seem to have any affect. Very confusing! Cheers! Chris.

Hiya all, Long time, no post... back working in a school in brum. We've recently upgraded our wireless system and we're looking to introduce BYOD support for staff and students. We're currently a little unclear about the birmingham grid for learning's stance on BYOD. Is there anybody who is currently part of BGFL who is already providing BYOD? How do you do it? What obstacles have you faced regarding the grid? From our current understanding, to stick to BGFL's terms of use we would only be able to provide students access to our terminal server gateway on their own devices - accessing the internet through a TS session on our system rather than any direct access to the internet. Ideally we'd want to give them access to the internet - which we can have them authenticate for against our Lightspeed box to provide filtering and logging against their name. Would love to hear from anyone who's already doing BYOD within the grid so we can finally work out which direction to take this in. Is there any official policy or reasoning with the grid that would prevent us from providing the access that we'd like to? Thanks

We're going be taking on some boarders next year and I'm currently having discussions about the best way to accommodate their IT requirements. I'm keen on BYOD, with a separate VLAN linked to a VDSL line with OpenDNS web-filtering. (This would also server the residential staff quite nicely too). It seems to me though that there are rumblings amongst some of the teaching staff responsible for the boarding house that they'd rather have School-provided IT equipment for the students as "they'll be less likely to get viruses that way, and won't be able to play games". Now... my thoughts are that BYOD would encourage a greater sense of responsibility for the students (surely, part of what is going to turn them into well rounded adults), they'd be able to use their platform of choice for keeping in touch with their family (rather than us having to install every flavour of instant messenger/skypetypething/whatever) and the fact that they can play games is not necessarily a bad thing and I see that as being a pastoral issue rather than anything else. Plus I envisage that the school-provided equipment wouldn't be loved and cherished... ;-) What do other people do? Cheers!

NEN - The education network have asked for thoughts and opinions on BYOD in the classroom. Their consultation will include industry, and interested parties such as schools, colleges, RBCs etc. BYOD - What do you Think? - The National Education Network I have created a blog post which I have also submitted to the consultation. It probably doesn't cover everything, and therefore I'd be grateful if you could read it, give feedback, but perhaps most importantly submit something to NEN yourself. You can find my thoughts here... BYOD: NEN Consultation « Irritable Tech As a systems manager who has been trying to implement a scheme, (and trying to get our LEA on board) I think it's really important to get some feedback from us non teachers. So please if you can spare five minutes, put something together. @GrumbleDook rightly pointed out to me on twitter that the consultation should include feedback on 1:1 schemes, as many lessons could be learned from organisations who have looked to this approach. However that isn't the line my school has taken, and therefore I didn't really factor this in to my response. If wireless isn't the correct place for this, sorry mods...

Hi All, Just wondering, to any schools/academies in the Northants area... Any chance of letting us come round to take a look at your set-up please? We're trying to get BYOD working - with little success when it comes to different levels of internet filtering (between students, sixth formers and staff). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -Ken

Our school is bringing in a laptop scheme, where our students buy the device, we set it up and then distribute it, however the device is essentially the students'. Obviously I can't add it to the school domain, but what GPO can I change to secure the devices when they come onto our site? They will mostly be using remote desktop connections to access the school's network. What do I need to look out for? What can I implement? To prepare the laptops to make them as secure as possible before distribution?

Hi All, I've recently had our firewall moved over from Sonicwall to Smoothwall and our BYOD Wireless has stopped working and I'm after some advice. Smoothwall is acting as a DHCP server for the BYOD VLANS (MAT). When the device connects through the Smoothwall RADIUS (Authenticates fine). The Device asks for an IP address, Smoothwall then assigns it an IP address, then the device asks again for an IP Address...Then it just loops and then eventually times out. It's like the end device is not accepting the IP address it has been given. I've tried setting a static IP address and no luck either. Ruckus are adamant everything is working fine on their end and so is Smoothwall but I can't find what the issue is with the devices not accepting the IP address...Any ideas will be hugely grateful as I'm pulling my hair out with this one! Thanks

Hi All I could do with some advice before we decide to go ahead with InTune for student device management. We will be rolling out BYOD for staff and students but I was infromed yesterday by the IT Management company who runs our network that all devices need to be wiped as part of the setup process for InTune. Is this really the case? If so, how have schools managed that with parents - and staff? Many thanks in advance for any advice. Hercules

Hi all. New member of staff is demanding something akin to AB Tutor or RM Tutor (same core????), which i have used in the past, but, as per the title, we're a BYOD school running a windows teacher environment, and a 95% macbook student environment. (Don't ask why, I gave up trying to figure that one out within 3 weeks of getting here) Question is, does such a thing exist. Some like Netop, and Net Support School, do have iOS, OSX clients etc, but this only works if you can admin the student machines and make sure they are running the client. In a BYOD school, we have no ability to admin the students personal devices. Is there something out there that my google foo has so far failed to find. Cheers

I'm after a bit of advice... We are looking at introducing BYOD on our network and what people are using for endpoint compliance/nac/nap. We have spoken with Bradford Campus Manager, which seems to do what we want, but doesn't support our core switch gear (DLink), or Wireless (Managed Dlink). Does anyone else have DLink infrastructure, and if so what are you using for NAC?