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What Each Inventory Items has an Internal Name, including Custom Fields which provide extended inventory The Internal Name can be used to reference any Inventory Items in Profiles When Internal Name of an Inventory Item may be located from the Inventor...

What For scripts added to FileWave Filesets using the Script view, logging is enabled by default. When Each time a Script (as built above) is actioned on a device, a log file is created or added to, with anything that the script outputs.  The logs of thes...

What From inception known as Device Enrolment Programme (DEP), Apple's Automated Device Enrolment (ADE) is a zero touch enrolment method for Apple devices. This article aims to cover the generic processes. When/Why Typically this process is used with new d...

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 a leg-up in creating distributable content and are also a great way to learn by e...

Description Enrolling Apple devices involves the installation of an MDM Enrolment Profile.     Installation may be initiated by either the user or the device.  This same distinction also applies to the linking of the enrolment. Initia...

What At times, MDM may appear slow or even worse, the MDM Enrolment Profile no longer seems to be apparent, preventing MDM management until re-enrolled.  Why Apple observed that osquery can cause such issues, depending upon configuration. osquery is a tool...

What Like to restart many devices in bulk?  API can deliver this. How The data block for posting restart commands relies upon the 'ids' of devices.  This is the Client ID as either viewed in the Client View or as shown when creating Inventory Queries with C...

What Any Apple devices that are MDM enrolled should receive MDM Requests.  Each Client Info lists the requests for that device. Why MDM Command History exists to display all requests queued and sent to devices, along with the result of those requests; addit...

Description By default, the FileWave Client executes scripts and tasks with elevated permissions (System on Windows). The below shows a method to launch a command as an alternate user. Ingredients Text editor FileWave Central Directions This method r...

What A new feature for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS 14 from Apple, Customise User Access controls Managed Apple IDs access to Apps and services. Requires either Apple School or Business Manager Access control includes: iCloud and App FaceTime and iMessa...

Why When installing the FileWave client on computers, it is necessary for the client to know certain information, for example, the FileWave Server address, whilst other information may also be useful to include: Boosters, Booster Routing, Enabling/Disabling R...

Description When creating a Custom Client installer, client preferences are packaged inside the installer, e.g. server name, ports, Boosters, etc.  However, it is not always the case that one set of preferences is appropriate for all devices. Superprefs is a...

What Like to know a new message has been sent? Want to see how many messages are unread from the Home Screen, per App? The following is really just for information, describing APNs. Push Notifications are mostly designed to allow 3rd party Apps the abi...

What By default, the Kiosk icon is only shown when one or more assignments between Filesets and Devices are created; set as Kiosk installation.   It may be desirable to view the Kiosk even where Kiosk assignments do not exist, since the Kiosk also shows othe...

Description Out of the many Inventory Items collected, IP addresses are  included in those automatically provided.  However, what does that mean.  For device communication, many IPs exist for communication and there is more than one address obtained from some...

Description Experienced being in a meeting and needing to pass an iOS device to someone else, but with the knowledge that there is sensitive data in some Apps or some Apps that not should be accessed at all? To prevent temporary users of devices from accessi...

What is Windows LTSC? Personal Computers are not the only hardware that may run a copy of Windows.  Examples could include medical equipment, digital signs, cash machines, etc. Each of these examples, require dedicated hardware, which may be high precision...

Description VPP Apps are all well and good, but what if you need to customise the experience in some way.  Some App developers provide key/value pairs to do just that. Requirements  Nothing more than an Apple Business or School Manager account, configured w...