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Working with Groups and Smart Groups

FileWave Anywhere Help Menus View - Devices

What Groups and Smart Groups are core organizational tools in FileWave. They let you work with de...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Josh Levitsky

1.6 Exposing an Association to Dashboard

Dashboard (Grafana) 1.0 Dashboard Basics

What FileWave can expose an association to the Dashboard so deployment progress is visible as a D...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Josh Levitsky

FileWave Appliances on an Apple Silicon macOS system

FileWave Virtual Appliances

What You may want to know how to load one of the Debian based FileWave Appliances for Server, Bo...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Josh Levitsky

FileWave Server Setup

Evaluation Guide 1. Installation and Setup

What server type is best for me? The first step to begin your FileWave Evaluation is to determin...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Emma Ainsworth

Importing FileWave OVF (VMware Workstation)

FileWave Virtual Appliances

Step-by-Step Guide 1. Open VMware Workstation. Click "Open a Virtual Machine". 2. Browse your...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Emma Ainsworth

Importing FileWave OVF (VMware Fusion)

FileWave Virtual Appliances

Step-by-step guide 1.  First, you'll need to download and unzip the virtual appliance from filew...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Emma Ainsworth

Using FileWave OVA appliances with older VMware ESXi versions

FileWave General Info

FileWave download pages include OVA images for FileWave Server, Booster, and Imaging Virtual Serv...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Josh Levitsky

Importing FileWave OVF (Vmware ESXI)

FileWave Virtual Appliances

Step-by-Step Guide 1. Open your vSphere Client software and connect to ESXI. Click “File” and “D...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Emma Ainsworth

FileWave Version 13.1.5 (Unsupported)

Downloads Archived FileWave Versions (Unsupported)

These downloads are provided for the purposes of migrations and should not continue to be used in...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Josh Levitsky

Importing FileWave VHD (Hyper-V)

FileWave Virtual Appliances

FileWave's Hyper-V VMs are usually built using the latest version of Hyper-V, typically the same ...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Emma Ainsworth

Importing FileWave OVA (VirtualBox)

FileWave Virtual Appliances

Step-by-step guide 1.  First, you'll need to download and unzip the virtual appliance from FileW...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Emma Ainsworth

Superprefs Fileset

FileWave Client FileWave Client Configuration

What When you create a Custom Client installer, the FileWave Client preferences are packaged into...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Policy Loops

Top Tips Desktop A-Game

What A policy loop happens when a Smart Group's criteria are changed by the Fileset or associatio...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Communication

Playbook: Device Refresh / Back to School

What Communication is one of the controls that keeps a device refresh from turning into a ticket ...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

FileWave Release History

Downloads

FileWave issues major releases on a roughly quarterly basis.  You'll find the history of features...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Open Source Software included in FW v16.3.0

Downloads Open Source Software used in FileWave

FileWave is a device management solution that uses a variety of open source libraries and softwar...

Updated 1 month ago by Pierre-Nicolas Rigal

FileWave Appliances on HyperV Gen 1 - EOL

End of Life Statements

As FileWave continues to develop our industry-leading multi-platform solution, our primary goal i...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Open Source Software included in FW v16.1.1

Downloads Open Source Software used in FileWave

FileWave is a device management solution that uses a variety of open source libraries and softwar...

Updated 1 month ago by Pierre-Nicolas Rigal

Microsoft Office Deployment for Windows: Office 2019/2021, Office LTSC 2024, and Microsoft 365 Apps

Software Deployment Recipes (Microsoft)

Description Need to deploy Microsoft Office to Windows devices with FileWave? This recipe covers ...

Updated 1 month ago by Andrew Kloosterhuis

S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. for macOS Software Updates (macOS Script)

Software Updates (Apple)

What is S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N.? S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. (Software Update Policy Enforcement with Recursive Mes...

Updated 1 month ago by Andrew Kloosterhuis