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Font Licenses
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 ...
Creating Licenses from Filesets
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 ...
Working with iOS Inventory
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...
Generating scheduled reports
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...
Using Queries to create Smart Groups
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...
Creating and Editing a query
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...
DEP Troubleshooting
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...
Add FileWave Custom Inventory fields remotely using a Fileset
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...
FileWave Central Inventory Toolbar
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...
Configuring Inventory preferences
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 ...
Windows 11 Compatible 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...
Windows 11 support in FileWave 14.7+
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...
Renaming Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to Microsoft Entra ID
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...
Back to School / Device Refresh Introduction
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...
Preparing for (re)Enrollment
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...
DEP Naming
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...
Using Parameters in Apple iOS/macOS Profiles
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...
Profile Editor details for Apple
The primary management tool for client management / MDM on iOS and macOS X is the Profile Editor. It can be accessed through either the Desktop Fileset or Mobile Fileset tool. Search and Show only configured (FW 10+) Two features introduced in FileWave 10...
Automatically Assign DEP profiles
Starting in FileWave version 13.1.0 you now have the ability to automatically assign DEP profiles to devices. Step-by-step guide Start by opening up the DEP Profiles UI (Assistant → DEP Association Management), and verify you have profiles created. It is rec...
Apple Configurator 2 Enrollment
The following steps will assist you in the enrollment process for iOS devices with Apple Configurator 2 into FileWave. This guide assumes you've already set up DEP in FileWave and that your devices are assigned to a MDM server within Apple School/Business Man...