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FileWave Central - Additional Settings Menu Items
In the FileWave Admin application, there are several other settings and menu items that come into play as you manage and configure your devices. They appear in two menu sets (Server & Assistants) as shown: Some of these items have already been covered, and ot...
Installing Windows Fonts
Description Windows font installation is not as simple as adding files to a folder. As well as copying files, the registry requires editing. The following Fileset will add Fonts to Windows systems. TTFThe Fileset has been tested with TTF on Windows Pro 10,...
Mass Deploy Windows FileWave Client
Summary One of the most irritating bumps in the road towards the administrative freedom of FileWave is installing the FileWave Client on your computers for the first time. Now that we've started using MSI-based installers, you can easily deploy the FileWave W...
Rename Windows Hostname based FileWave Client Name
Description This Fileset will automatically rename the Windows Hostname of your Clients whenever you rename a Client via the FileWave Admin. With this Fileset associated, the FileWave Client Name will have the utmost precedence. For example, if the Windows H...
Uninstall the FileWave Client on Windows
Description The below Fileset can be used to uninstall the FileWave client on Windows machines. Ingredients FW Admin FileWave Client uninstall Fileset Directions Download the attached Fileset from the recipe. Drag and drop the unzipped Fileset in...
Upgrade Windows 10 and 11
Description Although Software Updates are available as standard catalogue, Feature Updates are not. The following method may be used to update Windows devices using Feature Updates, e.g. 1909, 21H1. Last tested upgrading 20H2 to 21H1 Ingredients Latest ...
Adding non macOS devices to business.apple.com (ABM) and Apple School Manager (ASM) using Apple Configurator 2.5+
What With iOS 11 and Apple Configurator 2.5+, it is possible to add non macOS devices to ASM and ABM. This means that devices which were not acquired via your Apple Purchasing Account tied to DEP can be now added manually by preparing the device using Configu...
Apple TV Automatic Advance (ADE/DEP)
Description This recipe will walk you through the steps of enrolling an Apple TV HD 4th gen into FileWave with ADE (formerly known as DEP) utilizing the Automatic Advance setting. This setting is only available if you are using an Apple TV HD 4th gen and Fil...
APNs Certificate Creation & Renewal on Windows Computers
Description The following guide provides the steps to create and renew an APNs certificate using Windows. APNs TopicAn APNs certificate has a unique topic, in the form of a hexadecimal string, and belongs to the Apple ID used to create the certificate. Wh...
VPP Notifications (Apple VPP API v2)
What Starting from FileWave version 14.6.0 we added support for a new Apple API for App and Book Management within the Apple Volume Purchase Program. With FileWave 15.1.0 this API became the default. The main difference compared to the previous version is tha...
VPP App Updates for macOS / iOS / tvOS devices
Description As standard, VPP Apps on devices should update automatically, regardless of how they were installed, e.g. Kiosk or Standard Deployment. They may also be occasion to block VPP Updates, without locking the entire device. Information By default, w...
Redeeming VPP/Gift Codes
Description For those that can't use VPP, Redeemable Codes provide a way to assign Licenses to iTunes Store IDs , in order to deploy Apps to devices. Who has used the licence, and how manageable are they ? This article gives an overview over how to find out,...
Apple’s Volume Purchase Plan and License Management
What is VPP? VPP, or more formally, Apple's Volume Purchase Program, is a mechanism by which an organization or institution can purchase macOS and iOS applications and books in bulk and provide these to their end users. The process revolves around creating a ...
Configuring LDAP authentication
You can use pre-designated, fixed account names and passwords to enroll devices in MDM, or you can use your existing LDAP (Active Directory, eDirectory, Open Directory) database as the credentials for enrollment. To set this up, you will edit a configuration f...
Installing the FileWave Central application
Depending on deployment plans, the FileWave Admin application can be installed on two different types of systems; the systems administrator's primary workstation, and a desktop or portable being used for creation of Fileset Magic Filesets and/or primary images...
Configuring FileWave Server License
All of the settings that are used to establish the core configuration of FileWave server are performed within the Preferences panes located under the FileWave Admin menu item. However, before you can begin configuring your settings, you must activate your File...
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 - Mobile, LDAP, VPP&DEP, Engage, and Imaging are covered in their own sections. General preferences Fil...
Self-Service Kiosk Overview
FileWave supports two methods of distributing content by way of assignment (Association or Deployment). Standard Assignment When a FileWave Admin creates a Standard Assignment, content of the Fileset is installed automatically, without user interaction. Kio...
Apple MDM Lost Mode
What Lost Mode locks devices from use until Lost Mode is disabled. This enhances the security whilst devices are in an unknown location. Why On occasion, users can misplace devices. To assist the protection of data and prevent anyone from using the device...
Inventory-only Clients
Management Mode A new flag has been added to computer Clients. It has two values: Managed (normal mode); and, Inventory only. To change Management Mode, right click on a client and select "Management Mode." Inventory only This setting allows you to have you...