Getting Started with FileWave
Use this guide to evaluate FileWave, set up a new environment, or add a device platform to an existing environment—with step-by-step guidance for enrollment, deployment, and inventory.
Getting Started with FileWave: Introduction
Start with one device and one result Use this guide to evaluate FileWave, set up a new environmen...
How does FileWave work?
Start with this overview before setting up FileWave or trying a new platform or capability in an ...
1. Installation and Setup
For a new environment, get the foundation ready before managing devices: prepare your selected Se...
FileWave Server Setup
Choose your server route By the end of this lesson, you will have the details for an existing Ser...
FileWave Central Setup
Connect to your FileWave Server FileWave Central is the administration application for macOS and ...
FileWave Central Preferences
Check initial Server readiness You have an existing or newly provisioned Server and have connecte...
How FileWave turns your changes into device work
Start with the pieces you will use After initial Preferences, you have checked the foundation for...
2. Client Pre-Requisites
Prepare only the device platform and enrollment method you plan to manage. Choose Windows, Apple,...
Windows Client Pre-Requisites
Prepare one Windows test device Use this page to prepare a custom FileWave Client MSI for one Win...
Apple Client Pre-Requisites
Prepare only the Apple services your test needs Choose one organization-approved test device and ...
Configure Android Enterprise in FileWave
Before requesting a new activation JSON or configuring a binding, check whether the intended Andr...
Chromebook Client Pre-Requisites
Start with one known test Chromebook. Your goal is to find its Google-enrolled record in FileWave...
3. Client Enrollment
Enroll one approved test device, match it to the correct FileWave record, and check its managemen...
Windows Enrollment
Enroll one Windows Client and check its inventory Install the custom FileWave Client MSI on one t...
Apple ADE Enrollment
Enroll one approved device through ADE Apple Automated Device Enrollment (ADE, formerly DEP) appl...
Apple Manual Enrollment
Choose a manual route for one test device Use URL Enrollment to MDM-enroll an approved, previousl...
Android Enrollment
Enroll an Android phone or tablet Before you begin, complete Configure Android Enterprise in File...
Chromebook Enrollment
How to enroll Chromebooks into FileWave Goal: match one known Chromebook in Google Admin Console ...
4. Fileset Creation and Deployment
Choose one small, appropriate test item and complete its platform exercise once. Use the shared d...
Fileset Creation and Deployment
Plan, publish, and verify your first deployment A Fileset is the content you prepare. A Deploymen...
Deploy Windows Software with Filesets
Deliver one Windows test item Start with one enrolled Windows computer and one harmless file or a...
macOS Software and Profiles
Deliver one harmless file to one Mac This page contains the complete one-device exercise. Fileset...
iOS and iPadOS Software and Profiles
Deliver one approved app to one iPhone or iPad This page contains the complete one-device exercis...
Android Software and Policies
Use one enrolled Android Enterprise test device to deploy an approved Google Play app, then verif...
5. Inventory Reporting
Review the evidence from your one-device test. Reuse your baseline Inventory Report, or create on...
Inventory Reports
Read inventory for one test device Inventory Reports let you choose which stored device records t...
Custom Fields
Optional: add one organization-specific inventory value Custom Fields add organization-specific d...
License Management
Optional: understand software license counts License Management tracks Apple Apps and Books licen...
6. Optional Capabilities
Choose a separate branch when your organization needs it: broader Client or Fileset group design,...
Organize Devices with Client Groups
Optional: broader Client group design. Use this section after one approved device has enrolled an...
Organize Filesets into Groups
Optional: broader Fileset organization. Plan this structure after one device has completed a firs...
Manage OS Software Updates with FileWave
Optional maintenance pilot. Start here after one managed device has completed its first ordinary ...
Using LDAP to enroll macOS/iOS/Android devices
Connect FileWave to an LDAP directory when your workflow needs directory data for groups, Custom ...
Location Tracking
Decide whether location belongs in your pilot Location reporting is optional. It is not needed to...
7. Optional Windows Imaging with IVS
Use this branch only when you need Windows network imaging. Complete ordinary Windows management ...
Set Up the FileWave Imaging Virtual Server (IVS)
You need IVS only if your workflow includes Windows network imaging. If an appropriate IVS is alr...
Windows Imaging - Capture Image
Before you begin: This is an optional Windows-imaging lab, not a prerequisite for normal Windows ...
Deploy a Windows Image with FileWave IVS
Before you begin: Applying an image restores disk partitions and can overwrite existing data. Use...