Force Notifications on macOS for FileWave Kiosk
What
To ensure that notifications from the FileWave Kiosk and End User Notifications are consistently displayed on macOS devices, administrators can deploy an Apple Profile that forces notifications for the com.filewave.kiosk2 application. This profile enforces the display of notifications and prevents end users from disabling them, ensuring important messages and alerts are always visible to users.
When/Why
When to Use
- Critical Communications: When you need to guarantee that essential notifications, such as security alerts or mandatory updates, reach all macOS users without the risk of being muted or disabled.
- User Compliance: In environments where user interaction with notifications is crucial for compliance or operational reasons.
- Standardizing User Experience: To provide a consistent notification experience across all macOS devices in your organization.
Why Use This Feature
- Ensure Visibility: By forcing notifications, you eliminate the possibility of users missing important information due to disabled notifications.
- Prevent User Modification: Users will not have the ability to disable or modify notification settings for the FileWave Kiosk app, maintaining administrative control.
- Improve Compliance: Helps in meeting organizational policies that require certain notifications to be acknowledged by users.
- Enhance Support Efficiency: Reduces support tickets related to users not receiving critical notifications.
How
In FileWave Central or Anywhere you can create the profile. The images that follow are from Anywhere, but the process is the same in Central.
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Payloads → Create Configuration → Create Apple Profile
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Search “Notifications”:
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Set up behavior for the notifications:
Bundle Identifier for Kiosk app: com.filewave.kiosk2
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Deploy profile to desired device(s).
Device Behavior
- Directly examining a macOS device will look as follows:
