Family Safety - Block Minecraft Servers

Hi,

That doesn't seem to be my issue at all for a couple reasons:

1) I only have one device, so I'm nots seeing the inconsistencies that he is between the devices and so making settings for both devices won't help...as it isn't even possible with my one device.

2) The Game Restrictions has changed, so it seems that you are pointing me to outdated resources. Maybe I'm wrong, but the interface looks much different.

He was having trouble with it not blocking games. I'm not trying to block Minecraft. I am questioning why it shows up as javaw.exe instead of Minecraft.exe...but that isn't a huge issue as I know what it is.

My question is, within Minecraft:

1) Why am I not seeing the websites which the app accesses?

2) How can I go about blocking the web sites which I find objectionable?

Hey there, tcjohn78

Minecraft has to launch Java first to boot the game, as the game is coded using Java. It is run in the Java program, which is why it shows up as Java instead of Minecraft.exe

If your child was playing Minecraft Windows 10 edition, then it should have showed as Minecraft on the list.

As for blocking servers, this function doesn't seem possible. I did find this article here, that may help explain the servers a bit more.

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Multiplayer

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Thanks for the reply and for trying to figure this out. That makes sense launches java, I just knew I had seen it as Minecraft before. Some granularization seems very appropriate here or, if many programs made use of java, it is hard to know which is happening here.

As for blocking the servers, at that time I believe things were still being blocked/reported for all browsers/web activity. This new limitation is pretty terrible as so many apps have ways to browse the web (i.e. visit servers), for example this multiplayer. Am I understanding correct?

Unfortunately, the question was not addressed at that time as Rajeshwari_Patil seemed more interested in scoring a point for making a reply than actually addressing my specific question. As I noted, she referred me to outdated material. I will continue to mark this as abuse of the system because these employees are not doing their job.

Hey there, tcjohn78

Family safety does collect reports on what your child is doing when they are on the Internet, however it will only enforce blocked sites/allowed sites on Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer. This is because other companies are always updating their browsers, and they do not notify Microsoft when they do. Thus meaning Microsoft is always going to be playing catch up, so they decided not to go ahead with this.

But yes, this will collect and allow you to see all of the sites your child has been doing, and what they have been doing though the Activity report.

I am testing out Family Safety and learning lots about it :), while trying to keep up with the changes they are implementing.

Regards,

Hey there, tcjohn78

I just wanted to let you know that I have not forgotten about you, and this thread. I have escalated this up, with a link to this thread.

I will keep you updated, as much as I can in regards to this.

Regards,

Minecraft Servers

It still seems like this is unanswered. Since so many apps access the web on their own, it seems like there should be some way to track all traffic.

Apps are once again blocked

I ended up having to remove all three family members and re-add them. Annoying (especially for kids under 13...had to pay again), but this fixed the problems it appears.