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How to allow facebook's workplace and block other social network

gombodorj — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 03:15:03 GMT

Hi Folks,

How can i allow only facebook's workplace(https://workplace.fb.com/) ?

i have configured url filtering but still no success.

Url filtering have configured like below:

Re: How to allow facebook's workplace and block other social network

Raido_Rattameister — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 03:58:49 GMT

Never used them but based on URL I would add just workplace.fb.com to allow list without https://

Certificate is assigned to workplace.fb.com so should work

Re: How to allow facebook's workplace and block other social network

gombodorj — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 07:53:24 GMT

thanks for response.

but it does not work.

Re: How to allow facebook's workplace and block other social network

BPry — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:42:00 GMT

You'll have to allow it to your workstation ip/userid and verify what workplace.facebook actually connects to as far as outside connections. Facebook highly utilizes their own CDN so the content is probably trying to route through that.

Re: How to allow facebook's workplace and block other social network

Brandon_Wertz — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:22:51 GMT

Seems like something the Palo application team code a specific application for

Re: How to allow facebook's workplace and block other social network

BPry — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:59:04 GMT

@Brandon_Wertz I would guess that one is in the works. But OP it's never bad to request an app-id be made either, the more people that want something the quicker it's done generally.

Re: How to allow facebook's workplace and block other social network

BPry — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:03:46 GMT

@gombodorj I also just navigated to the site and looked at my logs and can verify that it pulls info from their edge servers along with lithium.com. It doesn't honestly look like you will be able to allow just workplace without also allowing access to facebook without an app-id being made. It's possible though that even then you would run into a situation where it has a facebook-base depedency just like everything else facebook related.

Re: How to allow facebook's workplace and block other social network

fozail — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 07:46:33 GMT

Hi,

I would suggest that please take a capture (fiddler/http watch) and verify that what all URL's need to be allowed to make it working.

Once you gather this information, just modify the allowed URL list or if you are using cutsom category just add it.

I hope it should make it working.

Best Regards,

Fozail