[Year 12 IT Apps] OT: Service Provider Changeover

[Brett Groves]

Hi Laurie,

We had few niggles changing over to Netspace other than the previous 
ISP, were, hmmm how to put this politely...somewhat less than helpful in 
changing over the webhosting.

I assume Laurie that you are using a proxy between you and Netspace? You 
could specify in your browser settings (you can push this out easy peasy 
through group policy) to use the non filtered Netspace connection, they 
can help with the addy I won't type it here for obvious reasons.

You can then lock down access through your proxy and again tie this to 
group policy if your proxy system can synchronise to active directory so 
that you can have different access levels for different user groups. 
Down side you would have to manually generate your blacklist...not so 
good. But I would suggest it is worth using a differential access system 
like this anyway so that you can preserve some bandwidth particularly if 
you have a heavy netbook or notebook program running.

White listing through the Netspace control panel is really quick and 
easy. A few years ago it took ages for the white listing to come 
through, now it is almost instantaneous. So if you have the credentials 
for the panel and your laptop in class you could theoretically unlock 
sites in real time.

Cheers

Brett Groves
ICT Manager
Croydon Secondary College


On 14/07/10 08:38, Laurie Savage wrote:
>
> Just a brief off-topic question. Has anybody had a trouble-free 
> changeover to Netspace? Ours has been horrific. I sent my students off 
> to devzone.zend.com to look at some of the great tutorials there 
> (devzone.zend.com/article/627) and access was denied because the 
> web-site's content was deemed "inappropriate: contains computing and 
> IT chat"! That's almost as good as the time our filters denied access 
> to the Vatican's Art Gallery because it contained "Nudity, Lingerie 
> and Profanity". Roll on Conroy's firewall!
>
> We did fix it.
>
> Laurie Savage
>
> Pascoe Vale Girls College
>
>
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