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Best Practice Guide: Software Update Deployment (16.0+)
What With FileWave Version 16+, the system for patching devices with Operating system updates has been overhauled, and your current workflows likely should be as well. This article will review how you can best cleanup, reorganize, and overall simplify your p...
Windows Imaging in FileWave: Secure Imaging Option (15.5+)
What In FileWave version 15.5.0, significant changes have been made to the Windows Imaging process using the Imaging Virtual Server (IVS). Previously, when imaging or capturing a Windows system, the device would mount NFS (Network File System) volumes directl...
Setting the Password on First Login to FileWave Appliances (15.5+)
What Starting from FileWave version 15.5.0, there have been important changes to the default login process and security features of the FileWave Appliance: Disabled Root Login: The root user is now disabled from logging in directly to enhance security. N...
Expanding the Disk on a FileWave Appliance - Debian
Overview This guide explains how to use the FileWave Smart Disk Expansion script to automatically expand disk space on FileWave appliances. The script handles all the complexity of expanding LVM physical volumes, partitions, and filesystems with comprehensive...
Importing FileWave Virtual Appliance - Hyper-V
FileWave's Hyper-V VMs are usually built using the latest version of Hyper-V, typically the same one that comes with the newest version of Windows Server. When importing the FileWave Server, IVS, or on older Windows OS'es, the Hyper-V Manager console may not b...
Booster Deployment Planning
Planning Scalability is largely determined by how many devices can be maintained simultaneously in a managed environment. A standalone FileWave Server can support a limited number of devices. Linux and macOS-based FileWave Servers can support between 1000-1500...
Advisory: OS Age Attestation and FileWave Server Appliances (Debian Guidance)
What We are monitoring OS-level age-attestation legislation (including California AB1043) to determine whether it creates any required changes for FileWave appliances. Current FileWave appliance scope: FileWave Server (Debian) FileWave Booster (Debian) FileWa...
Booster Overview
Introduction A Booster in the context of FileWave is a critical component designed to scale the management of devices within a network. It is a server component that can be installed on macOS, Windows, and Linux systems and is used to distribute data from the ...
Setting up the IVS (Imaging Virtual Server)
Guide for Networking Imaging with FileWave The following steps will assist you in the setup and implementation of your Imaging Virtual Server (IVS)If you already have your Imaging sever up and running please look at these guides for how to image Windows device...
OS Software Updates
Stay Patched with FileWave Keeping your Windows, macOS, iOS, and tvOS device's operating systems updated is one of the most important steps to ensuring device security. FileWave sync with the default Microsoft and Apple Software Update catalogs allowing you t...
Migrating a Debian 12 Server to Debian 13
Please note that this is here for educational purposes. We are transitioning to Debian 13 with FileWave 16.3.0. This guide is published to get feedback from others and develop this process to be as safe as possible. The learnings from this article have gone in...
Networking - Assign static IP Address for a FileWave Appliance
For the Linux based FileWave Server, Booster, or IVS if you cannot use the port https://server:10000 to change network setting please follow the instructions below: Debian Linux Changing the IP address in Debian involves different steps compared to CentOS. The...
Windows Imaging - Import Image
What The Import Image option in Filesets > New Fileset > Microsoft imports an existing FileWave Windows imaging folder into the current FileWave environment as a Windows imaging fileset. Use it when you already have a FileWave-formatted Windows image folder an...
FileWave Windows Network Sweeper
What FileWave Windows Network Sweeper is a troubleshooting bundle for finding Windows clients that are online but not communicating correctly with the FileWave Server, then attempting a targeted repair. Typical causes include misconfiguration, user interventio...
NAT Support for Client Monitor/Verify
What FileWave can send a Verify command to managed devices even when the admin workstation does not have direct network line-of-sight to the client. This is useful for remote devices behind NAT, at home, or on networks where the admin console cannot directly r...
Using FileWave OVA appliances with older VMware ESXi versions
FileWave download pages include OVA images for FileWave Server, Booster, and Imaging Virtual Server (IVS) appliances. An OVA is a packaged virtual appliance. It normally contains an OVF descriptor file, one or more virtual disks, and sometimes a manifest file ...
Superprefs Fileset
What When you create a Custom Client installer, the FileWave Client preferences are packaged into that installer: server name, ports, Boosters, and related client settings. That is useful for the base configuration, but one preference set is not always right f...
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. ...