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FileWave Client Status Check: How to ask the client what it is doing on macOS and Windows

FileWave Client Troubleshooting

What Use fwcld -s to ask the FileWave Client what it is currently doing on macOS or Windows. Thi...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Apple Profiles & Dependencies

Top Tips Desktop A-Game

Description FileWave dependencies are useful when one Fileset must install before another. Apple ...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Installing Windows Fonts

Windows Scripting

Description Installing a Windows font requires more than copying the font file into C:\Windows\F...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Brute Force Protection and Login Lockouts

FileWave Central / Anywhere Settings

Quick answer FileWave 16.3.0 introduced login lockout behavior through brute force protection for...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Securing FileWave Server on the Internet for Remote Device Management

FileWave Server

What This article provides guidance on securely exposing and managing your FileWave server on the...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

How to set FileWave Server components to debug mode

FileWave Server Troubleshooting

For troubleshooting, you can temporarily increase FileWave Server logging. Debug logging can help...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Upgrading to FileWave 13+ from older Versions on Systems where Port 443 is used

FileWave Server Maintenance

Description FileWave 13 introduced the Web Admin interface, which uses port 443 by default. If an...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

PSExec as a Helper in Troubleshooting

FileWave Client Troubleshooting

What Microsoft PsTools includes PsExec, a remote command-line tool that can help troubleshoot a W...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Self Signed Certificate Error during iOS OTA Enrollment

Certificates Troubleshooting

This article shows how to resolve the certificate-trust error that can appear when you manually e...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

TeamViewer: Assigning Licenses

TeamViewer

What TeamViewer access in FileWave depends on the administrator's FileWave permissions and on the...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Deployment Drafts

FileWave Anywhere Help Menus View - Deployments

What When you create a deployment in FileWave Anywhere, an unfinished deployment may appear as a ...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Google Chrome Extension Management (Windows)

Software Deployment Recipes (Microsoft)

Description Chrome extensions can be managed with FileWave on multiple device types. If Chrome is...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

View - Devices Overview

FileWave Anywhere Help Menus View - Devices

What The Devices view ( ) is the main FileWave Anywhere area for enrolled devices. Use it to open...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

1.5 Dashboard Panel/Widget Layout

Dashboard (Grafana) 1.0 Dashboard Basics

What Dashboard panels/widgets can be moved and resized so the dashboard shows the most useful inf...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Referencing Launch Arguments in Scripts

FileWave General Info Scripting

Description Scripts run by FileWave can receive Launch Arguments. The arguments are supplied by F...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Classroom – What we don’t support

Apple Classroom

FileWave Classroom assigns a cart to a whole class. It cannot split one cart between the first 10...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Customer Technical Support

Community Engagement

Customer Technical Support is the right place for break/fix issues with FileWave. If something is...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Understanding Free Space on APFS Volumes

macOS

What This article explains why free space on APFS volumes can look different from free space on o...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

What is the difference between Revert and Restore?

FileWave Central / Anywhere Troubleshooting

Problem You need to undo FileWave model changes, but Revert to Last Model and fwcontrol server r...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Kiosk Package Updates Category (macOS PKG)

Kiosk

Description Kiosk can show Package Updates for associated PKG Filesets when an older version of t...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky