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FileWave Appliances on an Apple Silicon macOS system

FileWave Server

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

Updated 10 months ago by Josh Levitsky

FileWave Server Pre-Upgrade Backup

FileWave Server

What In order to ensure data integrity during upgrade, version 14 of FileWave introduces a pre-u...

Updated 10 months ago by Josh Levitsky

IVS Migrations Options (centOS 6 to centOS 7)

CentOS 6 that is now end of life. Starting with IVS 14.2.0, the imaging appliance is based on Cen...

Updated 10 months ago by Josh Levitsky

VPP Token Renewal

Apple School & Business Manager Volume Purchase Program (VPP)

Description VPP Tokens need to be renewed once a year. FileWave dashboard will alert when any VP...

Updated 10 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Fileset recipe to block applications by name (macOS Script)

Software Deployment Recipes (macOS)

The Fileset will block the supplied list of applications on your macOS machines by running a scri...

Updated 10 months ago by Sean Holden

APNs Certificate Creation & Renewal on macOS Computers

Certificates

Description Apple Mobile Device Management (MDM) requires an Apple Push Notification service (AP...

Updated 10 months ago by Sean Holden

Android apps are not installing immediately

Android

What As an administrator, you use FileWave to send a policy to an Android device.  This policy w...

Updated 10 months ago by Josh Levitsky

APNs Certificate Creation & Renewal on Windows Computers

Certificates

Description The following guide provides the steps to create and renew an APNs certificate using...

Updated 10 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Backup Procedures for FileWave Hosted Servers

FileWave General Info Troubleshooting

What This article details the backup procedures and policies for FileWave Hosted Servers. Unders...

Updated 10 months ago by Josh Levitsky

FileWave Error Codes

FileWave General Info Troubleshooting

Server Error Context Explanation Solution -8 During Database Verification There ...

Updated 10 months ago by Josh Levitsky

fwxserver folder relocation in FileWave Server 13.1.4+ on macOS and Linux Platforms

FileWave Server Troubleshooting

Does this affect my installation?  To determine whether action is required from you immediately ...

Updated 10 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Android devices with multiple policies

Android

What Android Policies can be used to manage settings on Android devices. For a list of some of t...

Updated 10 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Windows Software Update Reporting

Software Updates (Windows)

What Starting from FileWave version 14.7+ there is a better overview of updates that should be d...

Updated 10 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Using Email to stay updated on KB updates

Community Engagement

What As a user of FileWave, you want to know when KB articles are created or updated. The KB has...

Updated 11 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Bypassing DPI for Apple Traffic in MDM Communication

Apple General Info

What This article explains the importance of bypassing Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) on network t...

Updated 11 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Apple Content Caching service

Apple General Info

What Every device will individually reach out to Apple to pull Software Updates and VPP Apps and...

Updated 11 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Apple App Store and Automatic Updates

Apple General Info

Developers are frequently updating applications and submitting new versions to Apple App Store. F...

Updated 11 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Mobile Preferences - iOS / Android

FileWave Central / Anywhere Settings

The Mobile preferences are designed around Mobile Device Management for Apple's iOS/macOS and Goo...

Updated 11 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Apple Specific Considerations

Playbook: Device Refresh / Back to School Manufacturer Specific Considerations

FileWave loves Apple, and so do our customers.  If you happen to be one of the organizations that...

Updated 11 months ago by Tony Keller

7zip (Windows MSI)

Software Deployment Recipes (Microsoft)

Description Example recipe for deploying 7zip with new MSI parameters in FileWave 15.2.0. Ingre...

Updated 11 months ago by Josh Levitsky