How Can I Disable All Filtering?

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I've used Sophos UTM Home happily for the last three years, but the 50-IP limit was becoming problematic. I switched to XG last night, and it's been a disaster. While the initial setup was a breeze, nothing in my network is working. Netflix and Hulu are dead again, and while I found a post suggesting fixes - here: https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/f/web-protection/74689/web-content-filtering-breaks-hulu-and-netflix - those exception rules won't take. The system is also blocking SMTP despite me trying to turn it off.

I just need to turn off all filtering for now so that I can function while I learn how to only filter what I want to filter. I'm hoping I don't just have to delete every rule in the system as that will require me to build everything from scratch later. I'm hoping for a set of switches or an allow any / any type of rule that will turn them off. Thanks in advance for any help!

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Michael Dunn · Accepted Answer

WrlsFanatic said: 
 Also, you say to build an allowed out rule for netflix and hulu, but as I said, I tried putting in the rules in that other post that I linked to above and it doesn't work. Under Web -> Exceptions I click "Add Exception". I give it a name and check the box next to URL Pattern Matches. Then I type in, for example: 
 ^https?://secure\.netflix\.com/* 
 But when I click +, it says "You must enter a valid domain name". But... I'm putting in a URL pattern, not a domain name. What's the deal?!

In UTM the string you match against includes the protocol, so you can write regex with the protocol (eg http://) 
 In XG the string you match against does not include the protocol, so you should not have the protocol in the RegEx. Although your RegEx is valid, there is an extra check to prevent any RegEx that include a protocol. 
 So if your UTM RegEx is this: 
 ^https?://secure\.netflix\.com/* 
 The same XG RegEx is this: 
 ^secure\.netflix\.com/* 
 
 This is just one of the gotchas when upgrading from UTM to XG.