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Confirming Firebase APIs are enabled for Chromebooks (15.4+)
What When setting up Chromebooks you need to ensure that the right APIs are enabled. In FileWave 15.4 there are 2 APIs that are required that were not previously needed. You may have these enabled, but you should still do this process just in case they are no...
Deleting Old FileWave Client or Server Log Data
Description FileWave stores many different types of logs. Many of these logs are designed to roll over, either to new files or by removing older entries. In most cases, FileWave logs do not store GDPR-sensitive data, but some environments or scripts can writ...
Troubleshoot DHCP and Static IPs on FileWave Debian Appliances
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 ...
FileWave Server on CentOS - EOL
As FileWave continues to develop our industry-leading multi-platform solution, our primary goal is to make it as simple, stable, and scalable as possible. With the End of Life of CentOS on June 30th, 2024, beginning with 15.2.0, the FileWave Server will be shi...
Disable IPv6 on FileWave Server Components
What FileWave Server, Booster, and Imaging Virtual Server (IVS) components should use IPv4. Enabling IPv6 on these server components can cause unexpected communication or service-discovery problems. When/Why Use this guidance when installing or troubleshooting...
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...
Setting the Password on First Login to FileWave Appliances (15.5+)
What Starting from FileWave version 15.5.0, there have been important changes to the default login process and security features of the FileWave Appliance: Disabled Root Login: The root user is now disabled from logging in directly to enhance security. N...
Expanding the Disk on a FileWave Appliance - Debian
Overview This guide explains how to use the FileWave Smart Disk Expansion script to automatically expand disk space on FileWave appliances. The script handles all the complexity of expanding LVM physical volumes, partitions, and filesystems with comprehensive...
Importing FileWave Virtual Appliance - 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...
Advisory: OS Age Attestation and FileWave Server Appliances (Debian Guidance)
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...
Migrating a Debian 12 Server to Debian 13
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...
Networking - Assign static IP Address for a FileWave Appliance
For the Linux based FileWave Server, Booster, or IVS if you cannot use the port https://server:10000 to change network setting please follow the instructions below: Debian Linux Changing the IP address in Debian involves different steps compared to CentOS. The...
Using FileWave OVA appliances with older VMware ESXi versions
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 ...
Network Proxy, Content Filter, and SSL Inspection Troubleshooting
What FileWave components need reliable network access to the destinations listed in Default TCP and UDP Port Usage. Depending on the workflow, that may include the FileWave Server, FileWave Boosters, FileWave cloud services, vendor services from Apple, Google,...
Prepare FileWave Server and Booster for Apple's stricter TLS requirements
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 ...
Upgrading to FileWave 13+ from older Versions on Systems where Port 443 is used
Description FileWave 13 introduced the Web Admin interface, which uses port 443 by default. If another service is already listening on port 443, the FileWave Server installer cannot complete until the conflict is resolved. To resolve the issue, either move the...
How to set FileWave Server components to debug mode
For troubleshooting, you can temporarily increase FileWave Server logging. Debug logging can help with server, Booster, LDAP collection/syncing, and Software Update catalog issues by adding detail that you or FileWave Support can use during investigation. Step...
FileWave Server Pre-Upgrade Backup
What FileWave 14 and later create an automatic pre-upgrade backup of the database and key configuration files before the FileWave Server upgrade continues. When/Why This backup helps with recovery if an upgrade fails. It includes the database, required configu...