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Description Starter packs are what the name implies...a great way to jump-start your new FileWave installation!  Starter packs are built for selected customer verticals and provide client group structure as well as sample reports and dashboards. Note: Starter ...

What Apple School Manager (ASM) and Apple Business Manager (ABM) now include a device assignment feature that allows you to move DEP/ADE devices from one MDM server to another without requiring physical device access or a factory reset. FileWave can serve as ...

What Apple is signaling the end of the Intel-to-Apple-silicon transition window for Mac software compatibility. In macOS 26.4 beta, testers/reporters have observed user notifications such as: Support Ending for Intel-based AppsThis version of "[App Name]" wil...

What This Knowledge Base (KB) article covers the macOS FileWave Let’s Encrypt script: filewave-letsencrypt-macos.zsh The script supports two challenge methods: HTTP-01 (standalone certbot) DNS-01 (Cloudflare API token) Both paths handle certificate request...

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...

Quick answer FileWave 16.3.0 introduced login lockout behavior through brute force protection for FileWave Central and FileWave Anywhere sign-in attempts. With the default settings, a FileWave user account, including an administrator account, is temporarily lo...

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...

What Fast Smart Group Evaluation lets selected Smart Groups evaluate on a shorter interval than normal Smart Groups. Use it when waiting for the normal Smart Group refresh would delay an important action, such as a newly enrolled device needing required assign...

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 ...

What Apple are suggesting the next major OS releases (version 27 for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and visionOS) 'might' observe their new stricter security requirements. Prepare your network environment for stricter security requirements FileWave servers ...

What The FileWave Windows Client upgrade fileset uses a more orchestrated process than a typical Windows software deployment. For most Windows software deployments, the FileWaveWinClient service runs the installer as the local system account. A client upgrade ...

What By default, FileWave Client scripts on macOS run as root. That is the right context for most device-level work, but it is not always the right context for settings that belong to the current user session. Outset is a MacAdmins Open Source utility that can...

This article explains how to plan FileWave Server upgrades when the upgrade includes a PostgreSQL database migration. The important rule is not the FileWave version number by itself. The upgrade path has to move through releases that share at least one Postgre...

What Starting with FileWave 16.3.0, macOS 12 Monterey is no longer listed as an Expected to work platform for FileWave Clients, FileWave Server, FileWave Central, or FileWave Booster. Customers who still need to manage macOS 12 devices should use the FileWave ...