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About Profiles / Policies
What Profiles and Policies are conceptually the same. They are used to manipulate the configuration of a device using a standard framework. When/Why You can create Apple Profiles, Windows Profiles, Google Policies, and FileWave Policies on the Create Config...
Add Profile
What Profiles allow you to control settings, features, and capabilities for Apple devices; iOS, macOS, iPadOS, TvOS When/Why Devices may need profiles for initial configuration (like to allow them to join a network), in reaction to a request (like please di...
Editing Payloads / Payload Properties
What We can edit profile payloads in the WebAdmin, change payload properties for all other payload types and do some basic reporting in the Payload view. When/Why Editing a profile is straightforward, but we can do more than that in the payload view. We ca...
FileWave Anywhere Payload Script Editor
What FileWave Anywhere script editor allows you to interactively edit script content in any payload that allows scripts. When/Why We'll use this feature any time we want to make a quick edit to a script within a payload. If we need to make extensive change...
Payload Actions (Move/Remove)
What Apart from editing payloads, you can also move them to another location and remove them entirely. When/Why Typically we'll want to move payloads whenever we are reorganizing in general, or we just did something silly like create a payload in the wrong ...
Payload Groups
What Payload groups are used to generally organize payloads and to mass assign payloads to groups of devices. When/Why We'll use these groups whenever things get a little bit messy. They can be very helpful to organize and we highly recommend that you don'...
Upload Profile
What Of course, FileWave provides an editor to create configuration profiles from scratch. But, you can also import pre-existing configuration profiles (.mobileconfig). When/Why If you have already created a profile or another system created a profile for ...
Export .p12 SSL Certificate from Windows
When managing mobile devices, it is considered best practice to install a root trusted SSL certificate on the FileWave Server. This certificate is located in the FileWave Admin > Preferences > Mobile tab. If you generated the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) ...
Renew MDM self signed SSL certificate with iOS devices
Self Signed certificate renewal Renewing MDM self-signed certificate can be done if the current certificate has to be changed: the certificate is or is about to expire the certificate is not or will not be trusted by devices anymore The main issue with...
Renew FileWave Server Self-signed Certificate
Description For simplicity, we should recommend Renewing with an Official SSL certificate or Let's Encrypt Setup for FileWave Server (Debian) Using a self-signed certificate is strongly discouraged for a production server. Information A self-signed certifi...
Self-Signed SSL Certificates Going Forward
Using a self-signed certificate is not the recommended option and needs to be given a second thought before implementation. Having a certificate trusted by a Global Certificate Authority (CA) is not only the most recommended and most secure option but also bec...
Self Signed Certificate Error during iOS OTA Enrollment
This article shows how to resolve an error if you are manually enrolling 10.3+ devices in FileWave with a self-signed certificate. It is considered a best practise to have a root trusted certificate defined in the FileWave> Preferences> Mobile> HTTPS certifi...
Root Trusted SSL Certificate (Using and Renewing)
Description To communicate with devices, a certificate is required. Our recommendation is for a root-trusted SSL certificate to be implemented. If you are currently using a self-signed certificate, we suggest moving to a trusted root certificate; wildcard c...
Fileset (Payload) Status in Inventory
What It has long been possible to compile "FileSet Reports" in the FileSet view within the FileWave admin, but it was not possible previously to create Inventory Queries (Reports) using the same info. With FileWave 14.5+, this issue is resolved, and more tra...
Fileset Revisions Overview
What Fileset (payload) revisions allow you maintain two (or more) different versions of the same fileset within one FileWave fileset object. When/Why The above description might not knock your socks off, but we are pretty excited about this, and think you w...
Associating a Fileset Revision
What When you attempt to associate a fileset that has revisions, you'll notice a slightly different workflow, where you are asked to select a revision to associate. (Associating a fileset that has no revisions functions as it always has) When/Why Assume ou...
Editing Filesets that have Revisions
What Of course from time to time you want to edit your pre-existing filesets. How does editing a fileset change if you have multiple revisions? When/Why Assume again that we have a Firefox fileset that has two revisions...one v79 and the other v80. Assume...
Managing Revisions
What There are quite a number of things we can do to "manage" revisions. We can create new revisions, edit them, delete them, and set default revisions. When/Why Our management options breakdown as follows: Editing revisions (different from editing the ...
"Default" Revisions
What What are default revisions? An excellent question indeed. Default revisions are a way of marking a specific revision of a Fileset as the "default", regardless of what it is called. Keep reading, and you'll see how very useful this is, and how our grea...
Creating a New Revision
What Creating a new fileset is the same as it always has been, but in some way, shape or fashion we need the ability to create new fileset revisions before we can use them. When/Why Typically, we'll want to use fileset revisions whenever we expect to contin...