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Client Monitor (16.0+)
What The FileWave Client Monitor is a tool that provides administrators with real-time insights into device connectivity and status. It helps diagnose and resolve issues efficiently, ensuring seamless communication between clients and the FileWave server. Fil...
Executing a Client-Side Script-Based Verification
What The "verify" option of the fwGUI client application allows you to run a "verify" from the client programmatically. When/Why We are going to use this option whenever we want to get "immediate" feedback from a client. For instance, as a post-installatio...
Open Source Software included in FW v16.0.4, v16.0.5
FileWave is a device management solution that uses a variety of open source libraries and software (OSS) to provide its features and functionality. We believe in the importance of open source software and are committed to giving back to the community. By listi...
Windows Client Health Dashboard
Description FileWave is immensely powerful, but can be daunting when it comes to stitching the various components of a complex workflow together. Content packs are meant to give you a leg-up in creating distributable content and are also a great way to learn...
FileWave Overview - Content Pack
Description About Content Packs: FileWave is immensely powerful, but can be daunting when it comes to stitching the various components together. Content packs are meant to give you a leg-up in creating distributable content and are also a great way to learn ...
Open Source Software included in FW v16.1.1
FileWave is a device management solution that uses a variety of open source libraries and software (OSS) to provide its features and functionality. We believe in the importance of open source software and are committed to giving back to the community. By listi...
FileWave Appliances on HyperV Gen 1 - EOL
FileWave no longer produces Hyper-V Generation 1 appliance images. Starting with FileWave Version 16.1.1, newly posted Hyper-V Server, Booster, and IVS appliances use Generation 2. No action is required for an existing Generation 1 Server, Booster, or IVS appl...
Importing FileWave VHD (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...
IdP Setup: Keycloak
What Before we can use Keycloak for authentication from FileWave, we must configure Keycloak and give FileWave access to it. The whole purpose of this configuration is to give FileWave permissions to talk to your Keycloak environment. When/Why This configu...
Opening FileWave Central / Anywhere in a Specific Language (Windows)
What When you install FileWave Admin, it will automatically use the language you have set on your workstation (if not available, it will default to English). If you want to change FileWave to run in another language, you have to launch Central/Admin with an a...
Installing a package with WinGet
What WinGet is a command line tool to manage applications on the Windows 10 and 11 platform. Note that FileWave 15.4 or later is required. When/Why We'll certainly want to use WinGet to push software to our devices, and we can do that rather nicely in a Fi...
Imaging Speed Test for IVS Performance Verification
What When imaging Windows devices from a FileWave Image Virtualization Server (IVS), it’s important to ensure that data transfer speeds are optimal. Bottlenecks can occur if the IVS and client devices are on different subnets, or if network links between them...
Apple ADE - MDM Certificate vs. MDM Trust Chain
What For ADE/DEP enrollments there are certificates that go in the enrollment profile. In FileWave 16.2.0 we have made a change to what is included in that profile by default. When/Why We've had some support issues where customers would see ADE/DEP profiles...
Control Await Configuration state (ADE enrolled devices)
What When Apple devices are enrolled via the Device Enrollment Program (DEP)—now known as Automated Device Enrollment (ADE)—they enter an “Await Configuration” state during the initial setup. In this mode, the user cannot interact with the device until the con...
Open Source Software included in FW v16.2.0
FileWave is a device management solution that uses a variety of open source libraries and software (OSS) to provide its features and functionality. We believe in the importance of open source software and are committed to giving back to the community. By listi...
FileWave Knowledge Base AI Assistant
Who is Dave? Dave is the FileWave KB AI assistant powered by Wonderchat. It uses FileWave KB content to answer questions about using FileWave and can respond in multiple languages. How can I access Dave? In the KB, click the chat bubble in the lower right corn...
How to Import a Content Pack
What Content Packs are a great add-on for FileWave to give you fully pre-built solutions that you can use right out of the box. When/Why Whenever we want to make use of a content pack to give us a helping hand, we'll need to import the content into our File...
MSFT Defender Reporting - Content Pack
Description About Content Packs: FileWave is immensely powerful, but can be daunting when it comes to stitching the various components together. Content packs are meant to give you a leg-up in creating distributable content and are also a great way to learn ...