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 Northern Grid, Easynet and Equiinet have been working with partner Local Authoritiess to enable all CachePilots to be upgraded to 5.2.5 software code. Amongst other enhancements this code version enables easier integration with Active Directory and simplified Google Safe Search enablement.
Northern Grid, Easynet and Equiinet have visited each partner LA to run through the code version and offer advice on the GUI changes users will experience.
Northern Grid, Easynet, Equiinet and McAfee are also working on the deployment of the Next Generation filtering platform that will replace the current SmartFilter system. We are currently planning to start migration to this service during the summer term. In order to enable the migration of CachePilots from SmartFilter to McAfee WebWasher we need to ensure that all CachePilots are on the most upto date software code version.
We are therefore planning to release code updates to upgrade all Northern Grid CachePilots overnight on Friday the 30th April 2010.
The CachePilot units will automatically download the update out of hours Friday evening. Users will see the new GUI when logging in following the upgrade. No bespoke site lists or configuration will be lost, although some lists may merge as part of the simplification of the Active Directory integration- please see attached document for further information.
Sites are not required to do anything to enable this upgrade, the CachePilot simply needs to be powered up and online!
Files to Download
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 Download Document | Main differences between 5.2.0 and 5.2.5 web filtering and advice on migrating to the new filtering system | 1611 Kb |
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