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Setting the Password on First Login to FileWave Appliances (15.5+)

FileWave General Info

What Starting from FileWave version 15.5.0, there have been important changes to the default log...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Upgrade Windows 10 and 11

Windows Scripting

Description Although Software Updates are available as standard catalogue, Feature Updates are n...

Updated 1 month ago by Zachary Butterfield

Chromebook Client Pre-Requisites

Evaluation Guide 2. Client Pre-Requisites

Before beginning the setup of the Chromebooks, we must first provide you with a temporary Activat...

Updated 1 month ago by Josh Levitsky

Notify Users with a dialog (macOS)

macOS

Description The provided Fileset is an example of notifying users, in particular, a message rega...

Updated 1 month ago by Emma Ainsworth

IdP Setup: Google

Identity Provider (IdP) Integration

What Before we can use Google for authentication from FileWave, we must configure Google Workspa...

Updated 1 month ago by Andrew Kloosterhuis

Apple MDM OS Software Updates

Software Updates (Apple)

What All MDM configured devices will report and receive Software Updates via MDM. This is the sa...

Updated 1 month ago by Andrew Kloosterhuis

Windows Imaging in FileWave: Secure Imaging Option (15.5+)

Network Imaging / IVS Troubleshooting Imaging

What In FileWave version 15.5.0, significant changes have been made to the Windows Imaging proce...

Updated 1 month ago by Emma Ainsworth

Mitigating Privilege Escalation in Fileset Executables

Filesets / Payloads Fileset Scripts

What This article reflects the behavior in FileWave 16.0.0+ When deploying Filesets in FileWave...

Updated 2 months ago by Jared Jones

Open Source Software included in FW v16.2.1

Downloads Open Source Software used in FileWave

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

Updated 2 months ago by Josh Levitsky

SSL Certificate Management for Custom Domains (FileWave-Hosted Servers)

Community Engagement Cloud Hosting

What This article explains how FileWave can manage SSL certificates automatically using Let’s En...

Updated 2 months ago by Joshua Heinz

Windows Wallpaper via CSP Personalization

Windows Scripting

Description This article explains how to enforce and remove a desktop and/or lock screen wallpap...

Updated 2 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Local Group Policy Object Utility (Windows EXE)

Windows Scripting

What Local Group Policy Object Utility or LGPO.exe is a new command-line utility to automate the...

Updated 2 months ago by Andrew Kloosterhuis

Storing the BitLocker volume keys using a Custom Field

Windows Scripting

Use a FileWave Custom Field to store the volume keys for your BitLocker volumes. This can be help...

Updated 2 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Using Native Windows Tools to Troubleshoot

Microsoft General Info

What Things break, thank goodness!  If they didn't all IT engineers would be out of work.  But w...

Updated 2 months ago by Tony Keller

Rename Windows Hostname based FileWave Client Name

Windows Scripting

Description This Fileset will automatically rename the Windows Hostname of your Clients whenever...

Updated 2 months ago by Andrew Kloosterhuis

Installing Windows Fonts

Windows Scripting

Description Windows font installation is not as simple as adding files to a folder.  As well as ...

Updated 2 months ago by Rommel Navarro

Notify Users with a dialog (Windows)

Windows Scripting

Description The provided Fileset is an example of notifying users, in particular here, a message...

Updated 2 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Message to macOS User

macOS

Description This Fileset recipe shows you how to send a Message via a dialog box to a User curre...

Updated 2 months ago by Josh Levitsky

Windows 11 Compatible Devices

Microsoft General Info

Description Microsoft have provided their list of supported Windows 11 requirements: https://ww...

Updated 2 months ago by Rommel Navarro

Windows 11 support in FileWave 14.7+

Microsoft General Info

What Windows 11 was released by Microsoft on October 5, 2021.  When/Why As an administrator, i...

Updated 2 months ago by Josh Levitsky