We have build an enterprise iPad App and now we want to give it to our employees. Initially when testing, we used ad-hoc distribution collecting all the test device's UDID and then creating the profile.
Now going live we want this app to be deployed in a secured web server and send the link to our employees, so that they enter the username and password before accessing the link.
There are around 500+ devices we need to install this iPad App. Do i need to collect all the UDID and then deploy the .ipa
file, because Apple documentation says:
Create an enterprise distribution provisioning profile that authorizes devices to use apps you’ve signed.
If not that way, do the user needs to install the profile.mobileprovision
file and then install the .ipa
file?
We are still unable to decide how to deploy our app because of this issue. We would like to avoid the app approval process because it App handles a lot of sensitive data.
Can some one help me on this, how to do a OTA deployment for enterprise Apps?
As of December 2011, these are the steps:
http://oursite.com/myApp.ipa
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