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When you select a Fileset, Filesets, or Fileset Group, you can select the Report toolbar button to see the status of the selected item(s). The report will show the Clients that have been associated with the Fileset, the version of the Fileset that is presen...

The Associations pane is the primary location where you connect your Filesets to your Clients. The window has three primary sections: The link between a Fileset and a Client, or client Group, is called an Association. In order to distribute the contents of ...

The first method for managing software licenses is to manually create the query to search inventory. You select New License from the toolbar and give it a name. Then you set the license expression to be based on managing an application or a font. You can choos...

Many institutions or departments have purchased commercial fonts for use in their design, graphics, or marketing Groups. FileWave provides you with the ability to track and manage the use of license fonts. The workflow for setting up a font license is roughly ...

Since the FileWave Client can deep scan your Client systems, it can find any file that meets the criteria you wish to be aware of. This functionality also exists in the primary Inventory pane in FileWave Admin; but the License Management section allows you to ...

The iOS Inventory pane exists for you to have instant access to the attributes of your iOS devices. Unlike the normal Inventory pane, the iOS Inventory behaves more like a dashboard view of your iOS devices. The iOS Inventory view is a read-only list of att...

Being able to look at the various queries while logged in to the FileWave Admin is one thing. Being able to have the results of a query automatically sent to your or someone else's email inbox at the same time every week is much better. FileWave supports creat...

Outside of creating queries for informational purposes, FileWave can help you create powerful, dynamic Smart Groups. The concept behind a Smart Group is to gather clients together who meet certain criteria. That would be, for example, all of the devices residi...

This will discuss how to create and edit a query.  When you create a new query, you start by giving it a name and choosing a starting criteria - in this case, we want to have all of our clients report back if they have an application containing the name "ch...

Apple Device Enrollment Program (DEP) is a service provided by Apple that allows organizations to easily deploy and manage iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS devices. It streamlines the initial setup and configuration process for large-scale device deployments, maki...

Description Although these forms of Custom Field may still be used, since FileWave 12.7 additional new methods of Custom Fields have been introduced.  The newer form allow for backward compatibility to these older Custom Fields, but provide much greater flexi...

The Inventory toolbar consists of six simple tools plus the Delete item: New Query – Creates a new blank query New Group – Creates a new query Group to contain queries specific to any criteria you choose Edit Query – Opens the designated query for alter...

With version 6 and higher, FileWave integrated Inventory into the main FileWave server. With version 8, FileWave introduced Smart Groups with Inventory queries: iOS Inventory These settings only apply to the iOS/iPadOS/tvOS enrolled devices. These devices ...

Description Microsoft have provided their list of supported Windows 11 requirements: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/windows-11-specifications Including links to subcategories, for example processor compliance: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/wind...

What Windows 11 was released by Microsoft on October 5, 2021.  When/Why As an administrator, it is important to know if this new OS is supported, and about the end of life of older versions of Windows. How The FileWave client running on Windows 11 is full...

What  Microsoft has announced the renaming of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to Microsoft Entra ID. This name change aims to unify the Microsoft Entra product family, reflect the progression to modern multicloud identity security, and simplify secure acces...

Introduction As we head into the fall, many organizations find it's a prime time to refresh, replace, and (re)Enroll devices. Whether you're an academic institution preparing for a new school year or a business updating your technology for the next fiscal yea...

As with all projects, preparing well for your device refresh project before the project start is THE key to success.  Hoping the project will go well without proper preparation is simply a recipe for failure, and none of us want that!  So, here are some thin...

This article is for individuals who want to customize naming of DEP devices. It will cover placeholders and their ability to accept name, as well as using custom and built-in strings in the DEP profile. Placeholders are most useful for new incoming devices wh...

Creating profiles with parameters in them is the ability to insert string/bool/int/datetime parameters into a profile so that they can be dynamically used on many devices. The following will help you understand what fields can be used, and what information wi...