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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 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...
SSL Server Certificates - iOS 13 and macOS 10.15
Apple have updated their requirements for certificates for their new operating system releases: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210176 The new requirements can be broken down in the 3 major sections: The mandatory presence of a Subject Alternative Nam...
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...
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 This knowledge base article describes the steps to use fileset merge feature in Fileset Magic to merge an update directly to the existing fileset. An example of when this might be useful is when you need to deploy a software update for a software pack...
Google Chrome Extension Management (Windows)
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...
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...
FileWave Identity Provider (IdP) Integration Overview
What Identity Provider (IdP) integration can be key to meeting security requirements from your InfoSec team, and ease-of-use requirements for your customers. IdP solutions allow your customer to have only one set of credentials, and to use them anywhere. Fi...