Re: Proper list for Enterprise provision questions?
Re: Proper list for Enterprise provision questions?
- Subject: Re: Proper list for Enterprise provision questions?
- From: Praveen S <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:54:54 +0530
How about Apperian and some thing like similar.
Praveen Kumar
Bangalore, India
On Nov 15, 2012, at 5:16 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
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> On Nov 14, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote:
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>> On 14 Nov 2012, at 2:50 PM, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> Wanted to ask if there's a better list to use post the question to about the good olde distribution provisioning profile expiration situation for Enterprise apps and possible ways to avoid it/manage it than this one.
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>>> Thanks in advance.
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>> Look for the article "Providing updated apps" in the "Distributing Enterprise Apps for iOS Devices" guide. If you can't find it directly, TN2250 (which you have memorized by now) has a link to the guide.
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>> The skim is that you can have more than one distribution identity alive at a time, so you can pick a new one up at six-month intervals. Issue a new provisioning profile against that, and use that profile for your subsequent builds.
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>> The device will start complaining two months in advance about the profile expiring. You can hand out the new profile for your users to install via iTunes, or if you haven't issued an over-the-air update before the deadline, consider issuing one just to propagate the new profile.
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>> That's just my skim; read the article.
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> Thanks much. That TN is great but it doesn't mention how to update a provisioning profile that is about to expire - of if that can be done without installing another build of the app.
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> This link provides more info for anyone else who might be interested:
> http://help.apple.com/iosdeployment-apps/mac/1.1/#app43ad802c
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> We've currently got OTA distribution set up internally for our company, yet we have (I know, I know) restrictions on using MDM, which this calls for. If I am correct, I think that we would have to create a new dist profile with the same bundle Identifier prefix (how important is it that the bundle prefix matches the previous distro profile bundie prefix anyway?) and push this out to devices.
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> With regards to bundie identifiers, we have some that start with a bundle seed of DCR… and some that start with VCE… how much does this matter when creating distribution and provisioning profiles. I'd assume it matters immensely, but we have two distro profiles. One for one year that is about to expire that starts with DCR and another for next year that starts with VCE. Is that even legit? Does it matter or not? If so, why? Does if matter with regards to apps already installed? Can one replace the other if the bundle seeds are different?
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> Of course, when something like this happens to 40 users, we just look sort of bad. When this happens to 10,000 users, it costs the company money as our tech support gets flooded with calls and emails.
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> Questions:
> 1. is it possible (or even wise) to push out an updated distribution profile to devices without the users reinstalling the app?
> 2. Could this be done using Configuration Management found in 10.8 OS X Server?
> 3. How can we make sure the users NEVER see this "provisioning profile XXXX will expire" for Enterprise apps? Is this outlined anywhere on the dev site? Is my line of thinking on the right path for this?
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> Again, if there's a better place to ask these questions, please let me know.
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