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What The creation of a new deployment connects one or more payloads with one or more devices/groups. You can also use deployments to create exclusions on devices or groups. When/Why Deployments may be quite straightforward.  It may be as simple as "I need t...

What The Targets of a deployment are the endpoints that we'll define for deploying to.  Targets allows us to choose individual devices, groups, smart groups and LDAP sources for our deployment.  Targets also allows us to avoid deploying to certain devices or ...

What In the Payloads tab, we'll choose all of the payload(s) we want to include in this deployment.  That is, items, such as software you want to deploy.  This can be one item, many items, or even nothing. When/Why Of course the point of a deployment is to ...

What The Options tab allows you set the "rules" for the installation, such as the timing and the license assignment type for instance.  These settings vary by type of payload When/Why For the most basic type of installations (an iOS VPP app for instance), w...

What The Deployments Summary tab shows you the effective action that your deployment will perform. When/Why It is very important to review this tab to make sure that at minimum the number of devices being impacted makes sense.  This is your opportunity to s...

What When creating Deployments in the WebAdmin you may see Deployment drafts on the deployment page. When/Why Because the WebAdmin is not a local application, and you could be interrupted while creating a Deployment by accidentally closing the browser or si...

What The FileWave WebAdmin has the capability to directly target LDAP OUs when defining a deployment.  This is a significant improvement over previous FileWave versions which required special smart groups to be built for this purpose. When/Why We will likel...

What At the very top of the Sources View for Apple services, you will find some overall settings related to Apple in general. When/Why We will need to specify these settings when our FileWave server is first setup, and will need to revisit this section at l...

What ADE Token(s) allow your FileWave server to talk to Apple's ADE (Device Enrollment) services.  This service is critical in supporting automated enrollment workflows, and is also critical in making sure your devices are able to be managed at the enterprise...

What Having ADE (formerly known as DEP) Profiles defined is one thing, but having them assigned to devices is another...and critical.  ADE Profile workflows allow us to automatically assign ADE profiles based on programmatic criteria. When/Why As much as po...

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

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...