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What The DEP Profile section allows us to create, edit and remove DEP (Apple Device Enrollment) profiles. When/Why There are a lot of different reasons for creating and editing DEP profiles, but in general DEP profiles control device setup behavior for Appl...

What VPP (Volume Purchase Program) Tokens from Apple allow us to utilize licenses purchased for App store resources on our FileWave server.  You may have one or many VPP tokens. When/Why In ABM/ASM (Apple Business Manager / Apple School Manager) terminology...

What The Software Update detail view shows specific information about any particular patch needed in the environment.  You get to this view by clicking on any particular update link from the Software Update view. When/Why There are two things this view real...

What The Licenses View shows us licensing information for VPP related apps. When/Why This is a great view within the WebAdmin to take the temperature of the environment as far as licensing availability for VPP.  Policing this view occasionally can help us a...

What The Software Updates view shows us all patches that have been discovered as "needed" in the environment. When/Why An important part of device lifecycle management is patching and updating systems. This view will allow you to see the available software ...

What The Imaging View shows us information for Windows imaging related associations, and allows us to create new. When/Why We are going to use this view whenever we want to check that a device has an imaging assignment, if we want to assign an image to a de...

What Previously created image associations can have three actions taken on them, depending on their current state.  They can be deleted, enabled or disabled. When/Why Deletion is always the same...it removes the association between an image and a device.  W...

What Image Associations are how we assign a captured Windows Image to a device for re-imaging. Every association has three basic properties: the image, driver packs (if used), and what devices are assigned. When/Why We will edit the properties when we initi...

What By clicking the button in the upper right-hand corner of the imaging association view, we can create a new association. When/Why We'll create a new association every time we want to assign an image/driver pack to a device that doesn’t have one. Each de...

What In many ways, Smart Groups and Reports are the same thing.  In both cases the concept is to programmatically identify devices.  The difference between the two objects has to do with intent...Smart Groups are created so that you can DO something to the de...

What Creation of a new report is used for the intent of reporting on some condition, like the version of an application or how much free space devices have. When/Why We will typically use reports both for ourselves (to get a feel for the state of the enviro...

What When we are building smart groups and reports, it is very helpful to have a live representation of what our query is returning.  This data preview (the bottom half of the smart group/report definition window) gives us this data live as we edit the query....

What Condition Groups within Reports and Smart Groups are a method of isolating specific logic for data queries. When/Why Condition groups are always used when you need to combine AND with OR logic within the same report.  If you are familiar with SQL, Cond...

What Conditions are used to define what devices or other elements will show in the results of our smart group or report. When/Why We will almost always use at least one condition in a smart group or report (unless we wanted to see literally every device).  ...

What Report Groups are used for basic report organization. When/Why Over time, you'll find that hundreds of reports will clutter up your Reports view.  Report groups give you a way to organize reports into logical groups and enable us to navigate the user i...

What Viewing (Opening) a Report is simply done to see the contents of the report.  When/Why From this view, we can see our detailed line items and make conclusions based on what we see.  For instance, in the below we might review this report and say to ours...

What The Devices View () is where you will work with all of the devices that are enrolled in FileWave, and also where you can choose to enroll new devices. When/Why You will use this view whenever you want to see specific information about a particular devi...

What Operating System and manual filters in the Devices view help you isolate specific platform and device subsets from your client pool.  For instance, if we were in a role only responsible for Windows devices, we would probably always filter for Windows dev...

What Shows a list of devices awaiting enrollment and allows the creation of placeholders. Additionally you can specify Actions, such as what group the device(s) is added to, what fields to set, and more. When/Why If you don't have automatic import turned on...

What Mass import devices/data from a CSV The upload option () allows en masse import of devices and/or field data, and allows you to specify additional import actions. When/Why You would use this option any time you need to create a lot of placeholders at ...