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What This Knowledge Base (KB) article covers a Debian-focused shell script that automates Let's Encrypt SSL certificate setup for a FileWave server on Debian 12/13. The script supports two challenge methods: HTTP-01 (standalone certbot) DNS-01 (Cloudflare) B...

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...

What OS update management often means tracking frequent Apple and Microsoft updates, creating Filesets, and assigning them to the right groups. FileWave 16.2.0 adds Automation Rules to help generate update Filesets from the updates reported by managed devices....

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

What This article provides guidance on securely exposing and managing your FileWave server on the internet for remote device management. When/Why You might need to expose your FileWave server on the internet to manage devices anywhere they might be, including ...

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 Device Declarative Management (DDM) is Apple’s modern approach to device management, introduced to enhance and eventually replace traditional Mobile Device Management (MDM) protocols. With FileWave 15.5, support for DDM configurations is now available, al...

Description As standard, VPP Apps on devices should update automatically, regardless of how they were installed, e.g. Kiosk or Standard Deployment.  They may also be occasion to block VPP Updates, without locking the entire device. Information By default, with...

Unlike File Level Filesets, Apple VPP Filesets contain the details of the App from the App Store, including the link to the App, with 3 distinct tabs, Details, Kiosk and Configuration.   FileWave does not store Apps from the App Store, devices will pull the Ap...

What The Command Policy in the Profile Editor is unique; the contents of a Command Policy is not a profile payload, but instead MDM commands. When/Why Some commands are available from the right click context menu, e.g. Wipe Device…. However, some commands woul...

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. Starting in FileWave 16.3.x, supported apps installed through DDM can also include configura...

What Starting from FileWave version 14.6.0 we added support for a new Apple API for App and Book Management within the Apple Volume Purchase Program. With FileWave 15.1.0 this API became the default. The main difference compared to the previous version is that...

About Device Assignment With the release of FileWave version 10 and iOS 9 comes a new, simpler way to assign licenses for apps purchased through Apple's Volume Purchase Program (VPP). Unlike VPP's previous options, which employed codes or user assignments, you...