FileWave Anywhere Help Menus
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Customizing Views
Many views within the FileWave WebAdmin have tables in them that can be customized to match your ...
Column Searching Criteria
What In FileWave Anywhere table views, column search helps you filter the visible list to the rec...
Columns Adding and Removing (Customizing)
What The Edit Fields tool lets you show or hide inventory columns beyond the default fields in Fi...
Columns Pinning
What Pinning columns allows you to make sure that a particular column is always where you want i...
Columns Sorting & Moving
What FileWave Anywhere tables can be sorted by column, and the columns themselves can be moved in...
Exporting Data
What From almost any table or list in FileWave Anywhere, you can export the data in the current v...
Search Criteria
What Use the upper-right Search for Devices field () in FileWave Anywhere/WebAdmin to quickly fin...
Update Model
What In FileWave Anywhere, the Update Model icon ( ) appears near the Model Number ( ). Updating ...
View - Deployments
The Deployments view allows you to see and create Deployments. Deployments are not Associations,...
Create Deployment
What Create a deployment when you need FileWave Anywhere to connect one or more payloads with dev...
Deployment Targets
What The Targets of a deployment are the endpoints that we'll define for deploying to. Targets ...
Deployment Payloads
What In the Payloads tab, we'll choose all of the payload(s) we want to include in this deployme...
Deployment Options
What The Options tab controls deployment behavior, including install type, timing, and VPP licens...
Deployment Summary
What The Deployments Summary tab shows you the effective action that your deployment will perfor...
Deployment Drafts
What When you create a deployment in FileWave Anywhere, an unfinished deployment may appear as a ...
Deployments Targeting LDAP Groups
What FileWave Anywhere can target LDAP organizational units (OUs) directly when defining a deploy...
View - Devices
View - Devices Overview
What The Devices view ( ) is the main FileWave Anywhere area for enrolled devices. Use it to open...
Basic Filtering
What In FileWave Anywhere, the Devices view has OS filters and manual column filters. Use them to...
Adding Devices
What This page shows devices awaiting enrollment and lets you create placeholders. You can also s...
Upload Devices and/or Data
What Mass import devices or inventory data from a CSV or TXT file The upload option () lets you i...
Group Navigation (Devices View)
What Use the Groups pane on the left side of Devices to move around the device tree and change wh...
Individual Device View
What The individual device view is a detailed level view of all pertinent details about any indi...
Tree / List View Toggle
What The Tree/List View option in the Devices view changes how FileWave Anywhere displays the sel...
Working with Groups and Smart Groups
What Groups and Smart Groups are core organizational tools in FileWave. They let you work with de...
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 the commands you can send to a device from FileWave WebAdmin. Open the th...
Clear Activation Lock
What The Clear Activation Lock command removes Apple Activation Lock from an eligible managed App...
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 removes a passcode that was set to prevent restricti...
Copy to Group
What Copy to Group creates another group membership for the same device in FileWave Anywhere. It ...
Edit Device Fields
What A device record can include both built-in inventory fields and custom fields. When/Why Use t...
Lock Device
What You can use Lock device in FileWave Anywhere to remotely lock a managed iOS device. If the d...
Move to Group
What The Move to Group command moves a selected device or group to another group. It is related t...
Performing Actions on Multiple Devices
What FileWave Anywhere can run one supported device action against several selected devices at on...
Remove from Group
What Use "Remove from Group" when you want to remove one copy of a device from a manual group wit...
Remove from System
What The "Remove from System" command is what you might remember from the native FileWave admin ...
Rename
What Use the Rename device action when you need to update a device name from FileWave Anywhere. T...
Restart (Windows)
What Use Restart Windows Devices when you need FileWave to remotely reboot one or more managed Wi...
Send Verify Command
What Use Send Verify when you want a managed device to check in, refresh inventory, and process t...
NAT Support for Client Monitor/Verify
What FileWave can send a Verify command to managed devices even when the admin workstation does n...
Set Tracking Mode
What Tracking Mode controls whether FileWave requests location information from a managed device....
Wipe a Device in FileWave Anywhere
What Wipe Device sends a destructive erase command to the selected managed device. On iPhone and ...
Windows MDM Wipe Command
What FileWave Anywhere can send a Wipe command to Windows devices that are enrolled through Windo...
View - Imaging (Windows)
View - Imaging Overview
What The Imaging View shows us information for Windows imaging related associations, and allows ...
Imaging Association Deletion, Enable and Disable
What Existing imaging associations can be deleted, enabled, or disabled, depending on their curre...
Configure Windows Imaging Associations
What A Windows imaging association links a captured image, any required driver packs, and the dev...
Create Imaging Association
What Use the New Image Association button in the imaging association view to assign a Windows ima...
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,...
Profiles and Policies in FileWave Anywhere
What In FileWave Anywhere, profiles and policies are configuration payloads that apply managed se...
Add Profile
What Apple profiles let you control settings, features, and restrictions for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, ...
Editing Payloads / Payload Properties
What In FileWave Anywhere, you can edit profile payloads, change properties for other payload typ...
FileWave Anywhere Payload Script Editor
What The FileWave Anywhere script editor lets you edit scripts inside payloads that support scrip...
Payload Actions (Move/Remove)
What In FileWave Anywhere, payloads can be moved to another location or removed when they are no ...
Payload Groups
What Payload groups are used to generally organize payloads and to mass assign payloads to group...
Upload a Configuration Profile in FileWave Anywhere
What FileWave Anywhere can import an existing Apple configuration profile in .mobileconfig forma...
MSI & PKG Payloads
What FileWave Anywhere can create computer Payloads for MSI installers on Windows and PKG install...
View - Reports
View - Reports Overview
What Reports and Smart Groups both use conditions to identify devices. Use a Smart Group when the...
Report Creation/Editing
What Creation of a new report is used for the intent of reporting on some condition, like the ve...
Preview Fields in Reports
What When you build a Smart Group or Report in FileWave Anywhere, the preview area shows live res...
Report Condition Groups
What Condition Groups within Reports and Smart Groups are a method of isolating specific logic f...
Report Conditions
What Report conditions define which devices, users, or other inventory items appear in a FileWave...
Report Groups
What Report Groups are used for basic report organization. When/Why Over time, you'll find tha...
Viewing Reports
What Opening a report lets you view the report results. When/Why Use this view when you need to i...
View - Software Updates
The Software Updates view shows us all patches that have been discovered as "needed" in the envir...
View - Software Updates Overview
What The Software Updates view shows us all patches that have been discovered as "needed" in the...
Software Update Detail View
What The Software Update detail view shows specific information about any particular patch neede...
Software Updates: Deploying to Groups
What With Version 14.5+ of the FileWave WebAdmin, you can now deploy Software Updates to groups ...
Software Updates: Rollout Plans
In FileWave version 16+ this feature is currently disabled and being re-designed due to the chang...
View - Sources
The Sources View of the FileWave Anywhere can be thought of as a configuration view for the FileW...
Apple General Settings (APN)
What At the very top of the Sources View for Apple services, you will find some overall settings...
ADE Accounts (Tokens)
What ADE Token(s) allow your FileWave server to talk to Apple's ADE (Device Enrollment) services...
ADE Profile Workflows
What Having ADE (formerly known as DEP) Profiles defined is one thing, but having them assigned ...
ADE Profiles
What The ADE (formerly known as DEP) Profile section allows us to create, edit and remove ADE (Ap...
VPP Tokens
What VPP (Volume Purchase Program) Tokens from Apple allow us to utilize licenses purchased for ...