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How to Force a Reboot of macOS or Windows Devices after Installing a Fileset in FileWave v14.10+

Filesets / Payloads

What The Force Reboot feature is a new functionality that is available in FileWave v14.10.0. Thi...

Updated 6 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Self-Service Kiosk Overview

Kiosk

FileWave supports two methods of distributing content. The first is direct interaction from the F...

Updated 6 months ago by Josh Levitsky

FileWave Knowledge Base AI Assistant

Community Engagement

Who is Dave? An AI-powered assistant from wonderchat with full knowledge of the FileWave Knowled...

Updated 6 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Kiosk with macOS in a VM: Enabling Metal support

Kiosk Troubleshooting

Description The new Kiosk requires 'Metal' support.  VMware does not support metal by default.  ...

Updated 6 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Resolving SSL and Manifest Validation Errors with FileWave Kiosk Installation (15.3+)

Kiosk Troubleshooting

What This article addresses an issue encountered during the installation of the new FileWave Kio...

Updated 6 months ago by Josh Levitsky

FileWave App Portal for iOS (IPA Install)

Kiosk

For FileWave 15.3.0+ please note that the IPA is automatically deployed. Once 15.3.0 is released ...

Updated 6 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Apple Silicon M1 / M2 Native Client Support and Rosetta

macOS

What 14.8+ FileWave Client PKG installer now installs a native M1 or M2 client, negating the nee...

Updated 6 months ago by Andrew Kloosterhuis

Fileset Scripts Overview

Filesets / Payloads Fileset Scripts

FileWave 11+ provides the ability to run a script at any of seven stages of Fileset deployment (c...

Updated 6 months ago by Sean Holden

Classroom – Identity Certificate Management

Apple Classroom

Overview FileWave 11.1 includes support for Apple Classroom. The setup recommended by Apple for ...

Updated 6 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Managing FileWave Administrators

FileWave Central / Anywhere Settings

FileWave supports tiered administration so you can create additional administrators in order to s...

Updated 6 months ago by Andrew Kloosterhuis

FileWave Components

FileWave General Info

In this section, we will describe the key FileWave components: FileWave Server The FileWave Ser...

Updated 6 months ago by Josh Levitsky

How does FileWave work?

FileWave General Info

FileWave is a combination of tools and services integrated through a common administrative applic...

Updated 6 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Renew MDM self signed SSL certificate with iOS devices

Certificates Self-signed SSL Certificates

Self Signed certificate renewal Renewing MDM self-signed certificate can be done if the current ...

Updated 6 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Self-Signed SSL Certificates Going Forward

Certificates Self-signed SSL Certificates

Using a self-signed certificate is not the recommended option and needs to be given a second thou...

Updated 6 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Renew FileWave Server Self-signed Certificate

Certificates Self-signed SSL Certificates

Description For simplicity, we should recommend Renewing with an Official SSL certificate or Let...

Updated 6 months ago by Josh Levitsky

FileWave Security

Security Information

FileWave SSL Certificates Using self-signed certificates should be avoided as much as possible i...

Updated 6 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Managing Client States via the FileWave API

Application Programming Interface (API) API Sample Code

What This article explains how to manage client device states in FileWave, specifically focusing...

Updated 7 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Using the Command Line API to limit, sort, and offset values returned

Application Programming Interface (API)

Problem When utilizing FileWave's Command Line API to extract inventory information, you may fin...

Updated 7 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Returning Device Information as a JSON

Application Programming Interface (API) API Sample Code

What The Client Info > Device Details of a particular client, contains a wealth of information t...

Updated 7 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Imaging Issue After Upgrading FileWave and Using Self-Signed SSL Certificate

Network Imaging / IVS Troubleshooting Imaging

What You are experiencing difficulties imaging machines after upgrading your FileWave Server, IV...

Updated 7 months ago by Josh Levitsky