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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 the certificate-trust error that can appear when you manually enroll iOS or iPadOS devices through OTA enrollment while the FileWave Server uses a self-signed certificate. For production environments, use a publicly trusted se...
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 ce...
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 revisions let you keep two or more versions of the same fileset or payload inside a single FileWave fileset object. When/Why Revisions are useful when a payload changes over time, especially for application upgrades. For example, assume you are de...
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 You may need to edit an existing Fileset after it has more than one revision. The revision selector controls which revision you are changing. When/Why For example, assume a Firefox Fileset has two revisions: v79 and v80. You might need to change a file on...
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 Create a new Fileset revision when you need to update an existing Fileset without losing the earlier version. When/Why Fileset revisions are useful for applications and payloads that will be updated over time. For example, you can keep the current Firefox...
Editing Fileset Revisions
What Revisions themselves have some properties that can be edited: namely the name and the description of the revision. When/Why Editing the properties of a revision is also done from the "Manage Revisions" window...we'll use it if we want to edit the name....
Removing/Deleting a Revision
Removing/Deleting a Revision (v14+) What We can create revisions, so of course we want to be able to delete them as well. When/Why We'll usually want to delete revisions whenever the revision is no longer pertinent. We would probably always leave the N-1 ...
Smart Groups, Inventory and Application Version Numbers
Description By default, FileWave treats software version numbers as strings. This is because it is legitimate for software versions to contain characters as well as numbers. The below script is designed to assist with Smart Group analysis and Inventory Repo...
Fileset Association types and precedence
There are several ways Filesets may be associated with devices, and the method used will affect activation. This article shares example associations. It does not matter if this is an Association or a Deployment. Each client has one manifest and the below ru...
How to Enter Launch Arguments for Windows Setup.exe Installers
When deploying Windows applications using their native installers, command line parameters must typically be passed as launch arguments to the installer executable for a silent installation. If an MSI installer is available it's best to use that to deploy your...
Merge updates to a Fileset with Fileset Magic
Summary Use Fileset Magic's merge option when you need to capture an update and merge the changed files back into an existing Fileset instead of building a separate replacement Fileset. This is useful when an application is already controlled by FileWave and a...
Google Chrome Extension Management (Windows)
Description Chrome extensions can be managed with FileWave on multiple device types. If Chrome is already managed in Google Admin Console, keep that management there unless you have a reason to use FileWave. FileWave can also deploy Chrome extension policy to ...
Google Chrome Extension Management (macos)
Description Chrome Extensions, like ClassSpaces, can be managed via FileWave on multiple device types. If the Chrome browser is already managed using Google Admin Console, then all management may be applied to devices via the Google Admin Console. It is tho...