How to whitelist a website on meraki firewall
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While this would be very handy to configure a white list I will show you how to get around this restriction in further steps below. Also note that while wildcards are supported in the URL’s, but adding just the URL “*” does not work. Note: You will probably want to add the internal domain name of your companies AD to the Allow list of as well to ensure users can access the intranet web sites. However if you are trying to maintain a white list of URL’s then type the name of the site you want to allow it the “Allow this website” text field and then click “Always” then “OK” Type the name of the URL that you want to block in the “Allow this website” text field and then click “Never” then “OK” Select “Import the current Content Ratings settings” and then click on the “Modify Settings” button Navigate to User Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Internet Explorer Maintenance > Security and then click on the “Security Zones and Content Ratings” Edit a Group Policy Object (GPO) that applies to the users you want to configure URL blocking. How to configure Internet Explorer to Allow and Block URL’s If you are configuring this option I also suggest your also check out one of my other article How to configure AppLocker Group Policy in Windows 7 to block third-party browsers to prevent users from running non-IE browsers to get around this restriction as this is an IE only policy setting. Luckily there is an option in the Internet Explorer Maintenance group policy section that allows you to configured an allow/never list of URL’s for your users. However you might not have any proxy or firewall that can do this and this method is also not affective when a user is connected to the internet outside the corporate network. It goes without saying that the most effective way to implement content filtering for the internet is to maintain list of sites on your proxy server/firewall in your organisation. This is another article I have written that address’s the commonly asked question on the Group Policy forum as to how you can use group policy to block or allow users to specific web site URL’s.