DescriptionFacebook Workplace is a collaborative platform created by Facebook in 2016. It is effectively social networking but in a corporate environment. This article explains how to allow access to Facebook Workplace whilst blocking Facebook.
SolutionThis article provides a
solution using only Webfilter, and a configuration when using
Application Control and Webfilter combined.
Access to
Facebook Workplace is done through the same Facebook domain as Facebook
itself. A connection made to http://workplace.fb.com/ will be
redirected to
https://www.facebook.com/workplace.
The page that
needs to be allowed is www.facebook.com/workplace
One
of the most common configurations is to block the “Social
Networking” category in WebFilter as shown
below:
However this configuration also
blocks the Facebook Workplace
page.
The solution in this case is to
create two Static URL Filters on the Web Filter profile as shown
below:
In CLI:
config webfilter
profile
edit
<WF
Name>
config
web
set
urlfilter-table 2
end
config
webfilter
urlfilter
edit
2
config
entries
edit
1
set url
"YOUR_COMPANY.facebook.com*"
set
type wildcard
next
edit
2
set url
"*facebook*"
set
type wildcard
set
action block
next
end
end
Note that the company name
should be used to create the first static URL filter
entry.