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January 2011 - Posts

Published Thursday, January 20, 2011 6:47 AM by Installation, Upgrade, and Deployment
I have a client that is running Websense Webfilter 7.1 on a windows 2003 server in stand alone mode. We need to continue with stand alone mode because we have clients we want to filter. However we have 2 Terminal Servers. They are being filtered but it...


Published Thursday, January 20, 2011 5:52 AM by Managing Policies for Clients
Hi We are currently running Websense 6.3 and the situation is as follows ... We want to block general email (gmail, hotmail etc) and organizational email for all staff but allow a select few access to facebook. Previous we had allowed these facebook users...

Published Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:29 AM by General
If I wan't to create a customized block page, is it just to copy the files in the language folder for instance en to the custom folder? Do you need to copy all the files, or just the one you customized? Block.html and master.html.. ect When there...


Published Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:16 by Personal Email Manager
We do not want to send email notifications, but prefer users just go to the URL to manage their email. How do I turn this feature off as our organization considers the notification either a)spam in itself or b) going to cause users to call the help desk...

Published Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:08 by End User Registration & Access Control
Is there a way to apply multiple policies to one proxy connection? When I tried to create a new policy for an existing proxy connection it tells me that I cannot do it....


Published Wednesday, January 19, 2011 3:22 AM by Configuration and Settings
Hello Have just setup a new configuration of 7.5 to replace out 7.1 install Web Filter Runs on ISA 2006 Can communicate with directory server (firewall ports etc all open) When trying to assign clients to filtering policies, I cannot see users listed...

Published Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:01 by End User Registration & Access Control
My client would like to exclude an end user from being filtered through Hosted Websene. I know that I could just not apply the group policy that applies the PAC file to their browser, but I would like to do it through the Portal. Is there a way to have...


Published Tuesday, January 18, 2011 11:21 AM by Managing Policies for Clients
Hi all - I'm experiencing a very frustrating issue with YouTube. Just so you get the lay of my land - I have unblocked the Streaming Media category and unblocked the YouTube Streaming Media protocol in my filters, as well as the Google Video protocol...

Published Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:52 AM by Managing Policies for Clients
My Management wants all access to Wikilieaks blocked. I have attempted to move this to a User Defined Category that I have set up for these types of requests, but it does not appear to be working. I attempted to use a Keywork Expression but this only...


Published Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:51 AM by Network Deployment and Connectivity Issues
Hi all, We are implementing websense V10K appliance and we have a Firewall, and websense interfaces should go through the firewall to access the cloud. So i would like to ask what ports should I open for C and P interfaces through our firewall??...