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Using PowerShell to Remotely Check the Windows FileWave Client Status
What The Windows FileWave Client runs as a Windows service, so uptime, local changes, crashes, or service problems can affect whether it is available. This article provides a PowerShell example for checking a list of Windows devices for FileWave Client service...
Microsoft WinGet Overview
What Microsoft Windows Package Manager, known as WinGet, is a tool that simplifies discovering, installing, upgrading, and configuring software packages on Windows 10 and 11. It operates through a command-line interface, enabling efficient software management...
Troubleshooting Errors 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 After we initially install any package there may be an error. This will offer some reasons for those errors....
Microsoft Defender Compliance Pack (Win)
Description This will be a guide to take FileWave usage one major step further than simply installing an application like Microsoft Defender. In this article you will see how to use Custom Fields, Smart Groups, Filesets, and Grafana to report on the status of...
Upgrading a package with WinGet
What WinGet is a command line tool to manage applications on the Windows platform. Note that FileWave 15.4 or later is required. When/Why Of course, installing a package is only the beginning. After we initially install any package, we'll have to come bac...
Creating and Deploying Images
The following articles will walk you through both capturing and deploying images to Windows computers.
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...
FileWave End-User Notifications (15.5+)
What With the release of FileWave version 15.5.0 and onward, administrators can now send custom messages to enrolled devices directly from FileWave Anywhere, FileWave Central, or through API calls. These messages appear as system notifications on users’ devic...
FileWave Windows Network Sweeper
What FileWave Windows Network Sweeper is a troubleshooting bundle for finding Windows clients that are online but not communicating correctly with the FileWave Server, then attempting a targeted repair. Typical causes include misconfiguration, user interventio...
Windows Wallpaper via CSP Personalization
Description This article explains how to enforce and remove a desktop and/or lock screen wallpaper on Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices using the MDM Personalization CSP through PowerShell. These scripts leverage the WMI Bridge Provider, allowing configuration...
Microsoft Defender Recipe (Win)
Description Example recipe for onboarding Windows devices to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint by running Microsoft's local onboarding script through a FileWave Fileset. Ingredients On Windows devices, the recipe needs two pieces: Microsoft Defender for Endpoin...
Troubleshooting Windows Client Upgrade Fileset Issues
What The FileWave Windows Client upgrade fileset uses a more orchestrated process than a typical Windows software deployment. For most Windows software deployments, the FileWaveWinClient service runs the installer as the local system account. A client upgrade ...
Rename Windows Hostname based FileWave Client Name
Description This Fileset renames a Windows computer so its Windows hostname matches the FileWave Client Name shown in FileWave Admin. With this Fileset associated, the FileWave Client Name becomes the source of truth. If the Windows hostname is changed directl...
Upgrading or Repairing the Visual C++ Redistributable on Windows (Windows script)
Description This article describes how to use the attached FileWave Fileset to install, update, or repair the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable on Windows devices. The Fileset downloads the latest supported Microsoft VC++ v14 Redistributable installers dire...
Windows MDM Wipe Command
What FileWave Anywhere can send a Wipe command to Windows devices that are enrolled through Windows MDM. Windows MDM is separate from a standard FileWave Client (fwcld) enrollment; for enrollment context, see Manually enrolling a device into FileWave Windows M...
Uninstalling a package with WinGet
What WinGet is a command-line tool for managing applications on Windows 10 and 11. When/Why After you install a WinGet package, you may need to remove it later. FileWave can handle that removal through a pre- or post-uninstall script within a payload/Fileset. ...
Installing SOLIDWORKS (Windows EXE)
What Need to deploy and install SolidWorks on Windows clients? Not a problem – FileWave has you covered. We need a few components from SolidWorks and some scripting tips to get deployment-ready. Required components: FileWave Central SolidWorks Administrati...
Imaging MAC Addresses (Pass-Through MAC Addresses)
What For Windows imaging, FileWave can store a manually entered Imaging MAC Address separately from the MAC addresses the client reports through inventory. This matters when the imaging address belongs to a USB Ethernet adapter, or is a pass-through MAC addres...