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What Declarative Device Management (DDM) is Apple’s modern device-management model. FileWave 15.5 introduced DDM Configurations and Assets; FileWave 16.4 expands the built-in configuration editors and adds JSON import and export for Apple declarations. DDM mov...

What The Admin Password Management command lets FileWave change the managed local admin password on eligible macOS devices through MDM. Use it for the admin account that FileWave created during Automated Device Enrollment (DEP/ADE), without needing physical ac...

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...

What FileWave can associate iOS app Filesets with compatible macOS devices. If Apple allows the app to run on Mac and your organization has available licenses in Apple School Manager or Apple Business Manager, FileWave can install that app on eligible macOS de...

What FileWave can inventory the launch agents, launch daemons, login items, applications, and other background tasks that a managed Mac reports through Apple Declarative Device Management (DDM). DDM status reporting is declarative. When the device management s...

What To ensure that notifications from the FileWave Kiosk and End User Notifications are consistently displayed on macOS and iOS/iPadOS devices, administrators can deploy an Apple Profile that forces notifications for the relevant Kiosk app bundle identifiers....

What FileWave provides Debian appliances for these components: FileWave Server Booster IVS FileWave Debian appliances use DHCP by default. The same networking principles apply to other Debian installations, but the commands and examples here focus on FileWave ...

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...

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...

What DDM Assets let you define reusable values for Apple Declarative Device Management configurations. Use them for shared settings such as credentials, server details, certificates, or other data that more than one DDM configuration needs. Instead of copying ...

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...

This article contains the scripts used by the Downloads page. The scripts are here for documentation purposes. Note that you don't need to directly deal with this page aside from reference documentation. Each download page has the right 1-liner for upgrading t...

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...

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...

If you’re experiencing issues deploying the Upgrade Fileset to devices, the resolution steps depend on the target operating system. Scope: This article covers upgrade fileset deployment, redeploy, and Windows import/extraction issues. If the Windows upgrade fi...

These downloads are provided for the purposes of migrations and should not continue to be used in production. You should upgrade to either the most recent release or the one prior. They can always be found here: Supported FileWave Versions The FileWave endpoin...

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...