FileWave Release History

FileWave Management Suite

User preferences in main views will be stored on the user account (Web Console):

• Pinned columns
• Width of the columns
• Visibility of the columns
• Order of the columns

User preferences in main views will be stored in the active session (Web Console):

• Filters
• Quick filters
• Search
• Applied sorting on a column

Profiles section error handling improvements (Web Console):

• Error handling in the profiles is more user friendly and the mandatory fields are better highlighted

Apple

Apple Silicon Support

Client and Booster components are now fully Universal - run natively on mac with Intel or Apple Silicon chips.

The server component is mostly Universal (Dashboard using Grafana still requires Rosetta)

Apple Spring 2022 Release support

• Profile changes:
  • New macOS restriction to disable AirPlay Receiver
  • New macOS firewall options (finer settings to allow application connectivity and logging options)
  • New tvOS restriction to disable automatic screen saver

VPP changes

• When adding a VPP token, FileWave will now check if already imported tokens are not from the same location to prevent adding the same location twice.
• When renewing a VPP token, FileWave will now check that the new token has been generated from the same location as the one it replaces.

Windows

Wipe

• Windows devices can be wiped from the Web Console

Software update view improvements

• Apple and Microsoft patches have separate sections now
• The list can be sorted by the assigned subtype (e.g. successful, remaining, warning, error)
• Visual improvements in the software update section

Software updates MDM profile

• Different software updates settings can be applied to the Windows devices via MDM
  • Deadlines, grace period, automatic update behavior, restart check, option to pause updates, option to check for updates

Automatic MDM certificate renewal

• Windows devices will get the MDM certificate automatically renewed before they expire

Imaging (IVS)

• FileWave Networking Imaging 14.8.x brings compatibility with FileWave 14.8.x.
• PXE Kernel: 5.17.1
• Grub: 2.06

Deprecated Features

The following features are deprecated in FileWave 14.8.0 and will be removed in a future version:

• Apple profile management is deprecated in the Native Admin Console.
• DEP profile addition and creation are deprecated in the Native Admin Console.

Decommissioned Features

The following features have been removed from FileWave 14.8.0:

• Clever is not available as an SIS source anymore.
• Engage is not supported anymore.
• Observe Client functionality has been replaced by the TeamViewer integration