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Open Source Software included in FW v16.1.1
FileWave is a device management solution that uses a variety of open source libraries and softwar...
Microsoft Office Deployment for Windows: Office 2019/2021, Office LTSC 2024, and Microsoft 365 Apps
Description Need to deploy Microsoft Office to Windows devices with FileWave? This recipe covers ...
S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. for macOS Software Updates (macOS Script)
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...
Microsoft Skype Deployment (macOS App)
Description Microsoft retired Skype in May 2025. Do not use this recipe for new deployments. The ...
FileWave Fileset Types
Filesets in FileWave are content that you want to distribute. They can take several forms, and th...
iOS BYOD User Enrollment Overview
What With Version 14(+) of FileWave, you can now BYOD (bring-your-own-device) enroll a device wit...
Fast Smart Group Evaluation
What Fast Smart Group Evaluation lets selected Smart Groups evaluate on a shorter interval than n...
Understanding FileWave Clients, Groups, and Smart Groups
Client operations The FileWave Client needs to be installed on computers that you want to manage ...
Configuring Inventory preferences
The Inventory tab in FileWave Central Admin Preferences controls inventory polling for Apple MDM-...
Smart Group Preview
What When creating a smart group based on an inventory query, the number of results in the query...
Using Queries to create Smart Groups
Outside of creating queries for informational purposes, FileWave can help you create powerful, dy...
Duplicating Smart Groups
What Prior to version 14 of FileWave, creation of similar smart groups could be quite tedious. ...
Create a Smart Group from an Inventory Query (Report)
What Smart group creation in FIleWave has always been a duplicated effort if you wanted a smart ...
Microsoft Enterprise Platform Single Sign-on for macOS
What Platform Single Sign-on (Platform SSO or PSSO) extends Apple's Extensible SSO framework to t...
NAT Support for Client Monitor/Verify
What FileWave can send a Verify command to managed devices even when the admin workstation does n...
Create TCC Privacy Policy Control Payloads
Description There is no way to escape the need to identify which services are being requested an...
macOS Privacy Preferences Payload
Description With macOS 10.14, Apple has introduced another new payload that requires User Approve...
FileVault 2 enabled on macOS ADE enrollment
What After you have configured FileVault management in FileVault - Getting Started, you can requi...
Detecting the Display Model using a Custom Field
Use a FileWave Custom Field to collect the display model reported by Mac and Windows devices. Thi...
Fileset Scripts Overview
FileWave can run scripts at seven stages of Fileset deployment, called activation states: Requir...