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FileWave Server Setup
What server type is best for me? The first step to begin your FileWave Evaluation is to determine your FileWave Server hosting preference. FileWave offers both a Cloud-Hosted server and an on-premise virtualized server appliance for either Hyper-V or VMWare. C...
Minimum OS version for enrolling Apple devices via ADE
What FileWave can require a minimum operating system version during Automated Device Enrollment (ADE). During enrollment, the MDM server can return Apple's required software update response when the device is below the configured minimum version. The device th...
Managing Apple Vision Pro and visionOS
What FileWave 16.4 manages Apple Vision Pro as an Apple mobile device through Apple’s MDM framework. Vision Pro uses the same FileWave enrollment and management workflows as iPhone and iPad; it does not use the macOS FileWave Client package. FileWave can send ...
Eval Guide Introduction
Welcome Welcome and thank you for choosing FileWave, the all-inclusive device management solution for Windows, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, tvOS, Android, and ChromeOS! To help you get started with your evaluation of FileWave's all-inclusive feature set we ha...
Apple Client Pre-Requisites
Now that we have the FileWave basics taken care of, let us start integrating the Apple services into FileWave. This section covers creating an APNs certificate and synchronizing FileWave with Apple Automated Device Enrollment (ADE) and Apps and Books. Apple Pu...
Apple Manual Enrollment
Not able to use DEP? Apple's Device Enrollment Program is great but you may find that all or some of your devices aren't showing in Apple School Manager or Apple Business Manager. Devices are usually excluded because they were not purchased directly from Apple...
iOS Software and Profiles
iOS Filesets FileWave can deploy supported profiles, Apps and Books applications, custom applications, books, and documents to iPhone and iPad using Filesets. Apple Vision Pro uses the same FileWave mobile profile, application, Fileset, and Deployment workflow...
Enrolling Mobile Devices into FileWave
Mobile devices can be imported or represented in FileWave before enrollment so administrators can prepare groups, Filesets, and Deployments in advance. Apple mobile devices—including iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro—can enroll through Automated Device Enroll...
What makes Deployments better than Associations?
What Deployments and Associations both assign Filesets or payloads to devices. Deployments are usually easier to maintain because one Deployment keeps its targets, exclusions, Filesets, and shared delivery options together. Deployments are not automatically be...
Combining payloads into a singular deployment based on metadata
What Every Deployment stores metadata about how content is assigned: targets and exclusions, installation type, timing, applicable license distribution, and Fileset revision choices. When/Why Use one Deployment for multiple Filesets or destinations only when t...
FileWave Server Mail test receives Bad Request with Google SMTP Accounts
What This troubleshooting article applies when Authentication Method is set to Manual Setup and a Google SMTP account returns a Bad Request error because the account is not ready for the app-password workflow below. FileWave 16.4 also supports Google OAuth. Us...
Configuring FileWave Server Mail Preferences
What FileWave Server Mail Preferences controls outgoing email used for scheduled reports and other FileWave-generated messages. FileWave Central 16.4 provides two authentication methods under Preferences > Mail: Manual Setup for an SMTP server or relay, and OA...
Configuring FileWave Server Basic Preferences
This section covers the basic FileWave preferences of General, Organization Info, Kiosk, Inventory, Mail, Editor and Proxies. The more complex preferences, including Mobile, LDAP, VPP&DEP, and Imaging, are covered in their own sections. General preferences Fil...
Admin Login Using an IdP Provider
What After an identity provider (IdP) and administrator group access are configured, FileWave Central and FileWave Anywhere show an IdP sign-in option. Administrators can authenticate through Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Google, or Keycloak instead of using a loc...
FileWave Identity Provider (IdP) Integration Overview
What Identity Provider (IdP) integration helps FileWave use your organization's existing identity system for supported authentication and enrollment workflows. This can reduce separate credentials for administrators and users while keeping access aligned with ...
Managing Deployments with the FileWave API (16.4+)
What FileWave 16.4 adds supported public API endpoints for creating, listing, reading, updating, and deleting Deployments. These endpoints allow integrations and administrative automation to manage the same Deployment objects used by FileWave Central and FileW...
FileWave Anywhere API (v2)
What FileWave Anywhere (formerly WebAdmin) talks to FileWave Server through API calls. You can use the same style of calls from scripts or third-party tools when you need automation that matches what FileWave Anywhere does. When/Why Use this when a workflow ne...
FileWave Anywhere API Documentation
What FileWave Anywhere includes a Swagger/OpenAPI documentation page for supported public API paths. The page lists public, non-internal URL paths and includes a Try it out option that can execute an API command directly from the documentation. Executing a com...