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FileWave Anywhere Help Menus

These articles are tied to the FileWave Anywhere help system specifically.

Customizing Views

Many views within the FileWave WebAdmin have tables in them that can be customized to match your ...

Exporting Data

What From almost any view in the FileWave WebAdmin you can export the data in the current view. ...

Search Criteria

What The general upper-right Search tool () will search for devices from within any view in the ...

Update Model

What In every view of the FileWave WebAdmin, you are going to see this icon () in the header rig...

View - Deployments

The Deployments view allows you to see and create Deployments. Deployments are not Associations,...

View - Devices

Device Actions

Device Actions are all of the "actions" or "commands" that you can execute against an endpoint fr...

Device Actions Overview

What Device Actions are all of the "actions" or "commands" that you can execute against an endpo...

Clear Activation Lock

What The Clear Activation Lock command removes an Activation Lock that has been imposed on a dev...

Clear Passcode

What The Clear Passcode command is used to remove the current passcode that is assigned to a dev...

Clear Restrictions Passcode

What The Clear Restrictions Passcode command is used to remove a passcode that has been set to p...

Copy to Group

What A device can have many clones/alias/copies in many groups  When/Why Use this function to ...

Edit Device Fields

What A device can have many fields both custom and built-in. When/Why Use this option when a s...

Lock Device

What An iOS device can be locked using FileWave Anywhere.  Locking a device is the same as if yo...

Move to Group

What The Move to Group command is similar to the Copy to Group command, but Move to Group will m...

Performing Actions on Multiple Devices

What We are pleased to announce that in version 14.5+ of the FileWave WebAdmin console, you can ...

Remove from Group

What The "Remove from Group" command is what you might remember from the native FileWave admin a...

Remove from System

What The "Remove from System" command is what you might remember from the native FileWave admin ...

Rename

What The "Rename" command as the name implies is a command for renaming a device.  The behavior ...

Restart (Windows)

What Starting from FileWave version 14.7+ we added support for remotely rebooting a Windows syst...

Send Verify Command

What The Send Verify command is one of the most frequently used commands because it is such an e...

NAT Support for Client Monitor/Verify

What Especially with devices being remote from a corporate or school network more and more, it i...

Set Tracking Mode

What Device tracking, or Tracking Mode is used to find the geolocation of managed devices.  Sett...

Wipe Device

What The command name of "Wipe Device" is probably warning enough, but this command is a destruc...

Windows MDM Wipe Command

What 14.8+ FileWave introduces the option to Wipe MDM enrolled Windows devices from the Web Admi...

View - Imaging (Windows)

View - Licenses

The Licenses View shows us licensing information for VPP related apps. This is a great view withi...

View - Payloads

Profiles allow you to control settings, features, and capabilities for Apple devices; iOS, macOS,...

View - Reports

View - Software Updates

The Software Updates view shows us all patches that have been discovered as "needed" in the envir...

View - Sources

The Sources View of the FileWave Anywhere can be thought of as a configuration view for the FileW...