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 ...
Column Searching Criteria
What Whenever we are in a particular table view, the data may be quite extensive and perhaps har...
Columns Adding and Removing (Customizing)
What The Edit Fields tool allows you to choose to display/hide additional inventory fields beyon...
Columns Pinning
What Pinning columns allows you to make sure that a particular column is always where you want i...
Columns Sorting & Moving
What Once we have customized a table view to contain the columns we want, it makes sense for us ...
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,...
Create Deployment
What The creation of a new deployment connects one or more payloads with one or more devices/gro...
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 allows you set the "rules" for the installation, such as the timing and the...
Deployment Summary
What The Deployments Summary tab shows you the effective action that your deployment will perfor...
Deployment Drafts
What When creating Deployments in the WebAdmin you may see Deployment drafts on the deployment p...
Deployments Targeting LDAP Groups
What The FileWave WebAdmin has the capability to directly target LDAP OUs when defining a deploy...
View - Devices
View - Devices Overview
What The Devices View () is where you will work with all of the devices that are enrolled in Fil...
Basic Filtering
What Operating System and manual filters in the Devices view help you isolate specific platform ...
Adding Devices
What Shows a list of devices awaiting enrollment and allows the creation of placeholders. Additi...
Upload Devices and/or Data
What Mass import devices/data from a CSV The upload option () allows en masse import of devices...
Group Navigation (Devices View)
What Primary navigation within the devices view is done using the Groups pane in the left portio...
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 within the Devices view allows you to toggle between a traditiona...
Working with Groups and Smart Groups
What Groups and Smart Groups are essential organizational elements within FileWave. They allow ...
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 - Imaging Overview
What The Imaging View shows us information for Windows imaging related associations, and allows ...
Imaging Association Deletion, Enable and Disable
What Previously created image associations can have three actions taken on them, depending on th...
Imaging Association Properties
What Image Associations are how we assign a captured Windows Image to a device for re-imaging. E...
Create Imaging Association
What By clicking the button in the upper right-hand corner of the imaging association view, we c...
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,...
About Profiles / Policies
What Profiles and Policies are conceptually the same. They are used to manipulate the configurat...
Add Profile
What Profiles allow you to control settings, features, and capabilities for Apple devices; iOS, ...
Editing Payloads / Payload Properties
What We can edit profile payloads in the WebAdmin, change payload properties for all other paylo...
FileWave Anywhere Payload Script Editor
What The WebAdmin script editor allows you to interactively edit script content in any payload t...
Payload Actions (Move/Remove)
What Apart from editing payloads, you can also move them to another location and remove them ent...
Payload Groups
What Payload groups are used to generally organize payloads and to mass assign payloads to group...
Upload Profile
What Of course, FileWave provides an editor to create configuration profiles from scratch. But,...
MSI & PKG Payloads
What The FileWave Anywhere console, from version 14.5+, now supports the creation of computer pa...
View - Reports
View - Reports Overview
What In many ways, Smart Groups and Reports are the same thing. In both cases the concept is to...
Report Creation/Editing
What Creation of a new report is used for the intent of reporting on some condition, like the ve...
Fields in Reports (Preview)
What When we are building smart groups and reports, it is very helpful to have a live representa...
Report Condition Groups
What Condition Groups within Reports and Smart Groups are a method of isolating specific logic f...
Report Conditions
What Conditions are used to define what devices or other elements will show in the results of ou...
Report Groups
What Report Groups are used for basic report organization. When/Why Over time, you'll find tha...
Viewing Reports
What Viewing (Opening) a Report is simply done to see the contents of the report. When/Why Fr...
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
What FileWave Version 14.5+ now adds the capability to deploy Software Updates during specified ...
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...
DEP Accounts (Tokens)
What DEP Token(s) allow your FileWave server to talk to Apple's DEP (Device Enrollment) services...
DEP Profile Workflows
What Having DEP Profiles defined is one thing, but having them assigned to devices is another......
DEP Profiles
What The DEP Profile section allows us to create, edit and remove DEP (Apple Device Enrollment) ...
VPP Tokens
What VPP (Volume Purchase Program) Tokens from Apple allow us to utilize licenses purchased for ...