Hello All,
I'm new to the forums and have the need to be blocking some websites. I have taken over the role of IT administrator for the time being, so I'm not the original architect of this configuration. I don't know how long I will be maintaining this either, but I'd like to be able to hand off something cleaner than what I was given for whoever fills the role.
I read the guides and tried to implement the steps required, but some sites are still getting through without issues. When tested with the policy tool, the policy tool has stated all sites are blocked, but users can still pass through and access the URL without issues. This seems to correlate to domains with Https redirects. Youtube.com, Reddit.com, codeacademy.com, etc. Standard sites with http are blocked fine when adding them to the block sites list in the policy created. I'm running version 9.351-3.
I've tried running in Standard and Transparent mode, but neither seem to make a difference for the https sites. I've enabled HTTPS scanning when in transparent mode and the result has always been the same.
My current work around is to use the application control to block some of the offenders, but there isn't always a selection available there and I know that's not the intention for that tool.
I'd like to get this to the point where there is user authentication that would allow different users access, but I've failed at being able to pair up to the AD server for now. That will probably be it's own post in the forum for that though.
Any tips/best practices/ or thoughts on the problem are appreciated.
Thanks,
Justin
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