In-house apps distribution

Hi,
I have read the relevant Apple iPad deployment documents and tried to understand them (within my level of pertinent technical knowledge). One thing is still not clear:
Let's say a company has developed an in-house iPad app. Can the company's IT do the following:
1. Pre-install it efficiently on several hundred iPads, bypassing iTunes store?
2. Lock the devices down so that they cannot by synced with personal iTunes accounts?
3. Distribute updates to the app over the air, bypassing iTunes store?
Thank you in advance for your help.

Thank you,
I found this in Enterprise Deployment Guide:
Applications: lists your applications that are available to install on devices attached to your computer. A provisioning profile might be needed for an application to run on a device.
*Provisioning Profiles:* lists profiles that permit the use of the device for iPhone OS development, as authorized by Apple Developer Connection. For information, see Chapter 5. Provisioning profiles also allow devices to run enterprise applications that are not distributed using the iTunes Store.
*Allow installing apps:* When this option is turned off, the App Store is disabled and its icon is removed from the Home screen. Users are unable to install or update their applications.
I guess this sheds some light on the issue.

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In-house app distribution

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http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/FAWireless_Enterprise_AppDistribution/Introduction/Introduction.html
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I'm guessing nobody has this working?
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I had an idea for an application which i wanted to be programmed. being a total total newbie i asked someone to make it for me. its coming along nicely and will soon (hopefully) be on the app store.
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http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/FA_Wireless_Enterprise_ App_Distribution/Introduction/Introduction.html
The above link is present in many posts in these forums (cf. More Like This below this question.
The information I seek may also have been here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=answerlink&url=http://manuals.info.apple. com/en_US/Enterprise_Deployment_Guide.pd…
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the app manifest file format and
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https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#referencelibrary/GettingStarted/RoadMapi OS/chapters/Introduction.html
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/88929/Getting-Started-with-iPhone-and-iOS-De velopment
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/ios-development-guide-part1/
http://designthencode.com/scratch/
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ZFD App distribution, source path and fs rights...

I am encountering an issue, where it seems that the only place you can
specify the SOURCE_PATH variable for a ZFD app distribution is via the TED
policy...
Whenever I try and specify an application specific SOURCE_PATH (i.e. on the
golden app) I get the following error reported in the dist TED.LOG:
'the source path %SOURCE_PATH% is invalid. Make sure the "SOURCE_PATH"
variable value is defined in the Tiered Electronic Distribution policy, and
that the policy is associated with the Distributor objects parent container.'
I understand that you can reference subscriber specific variables to set
the destination folder and substructure within the distribution object, but
cannot seem to set an application specific SOURCE_PATH on either the app or
distribution object - it just wants to use the policy based value, which
can only be set once for the distributor...
Is it not possible to set an application/distribution specific value? And
if not, how does the transfer of Common->File System Rights work?
I'm sure I must be doing something wrong/approaching this the wrong way!
Please help if you can!
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David

The actual issue is that the SOURCE_PATH macro IS NOT modified when
distributing MSI based apps, however this works fine for snapshot style
apps... For whatever reason the distributor treats MSI based apps and
trad. app objects differently. If you try and 'gather' an MSI based app
with the SOURCE_PATH variable used in the Package Source List, whcih HAS
been defined in the Common Macros, then it insists the variable in invalid...
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mirror structure and maintain associations. If you do this then rights ARE
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> > File rights that are explicitly assigned in the Application object using
> > the Rights to Files and Folders tab are not transferred.
>
> And this is one of the biggest pains in the ass about replication... It
> means you've got to manually go thru and reassign file rights to an
> application, even tho they're all set in the golden app.. I've suggested
> this as an enhancement several times, but it's not made it there yet.
>
>
> Graham
>
> "Ron van Herk" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > For application distribution the SOURCE_PATH needs to be specified on the
> > application: Common -> Macros
> >
> > File rights that are explicitly assigned in the Application object using
> > the Rights to Files and Folders tab are not transferred. Have a look at:
> >
http://www.novell.com/documentation/...k.html#bt16403
> >
> > Ron
> >
> > <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> >>I am encountering an issue, where it seems that the only place you can
> >> specify the SOURCE_PATH variable for a ZFD app distribution is via the
> >> TED
> >> policy...
> >>
> >> Whenever I try and specify an application specific SOURCE_PATH (i.e. on
> >> the
> >> golden app) I get the following error reported in the dist TED.LOG:
> >>
> >> 'the source path %SOURCE_PATH% is invalid. Make sure the "SOURCE_PATH"
> >> variable value is defined in the Tiered Electronic Distribution policy,
> >> and
> >> that the policy is associated with the Distributor objects parent
> >> container.'
> >>
> >> I understand that you can reference subscriber specific variables to set
> >> the destination folder and substructure within the distribution object,
> >> but
> >> cannot seem to set an application specific SOURCE_PATH on either the app
> >> or
> >> distribution object - it just wants to use the policy based value, which
> >> can only be set once for the distributor...
> >>
> >> Is it not possible to set an application/distribution specific value? And
> >> if not, how does the transfer of Common->File System Rights work?
> >>
> >> I'm sure I must be doing something wrong/approaching this the wrong way!
> >> Please help if you can!
> >>
> >> Many thanks
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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SOURCE_PATH in ZFD app distribution...

I'm struggling to understand how to best specify and use SOURCE_PATH when
distributing apps from a single distributor to subscribers that have a
different volume and folder structure... (legacy servers)
The apps are predominantly MSI, so we need to bear in mind that the
distribution just hoovers up everything under the path specified in
Common->Sources folder.
Ideally i'd like to set the SOURCE_PATH on the individual app object and
then use some 'variablisation' (!?!) on the subscribers to sort the paths
out. However, I can only get the distributor to gather if the SOURCE_PATH
variable is set at the TED policy within the service location package that
is specified on the container above the distributor object... (If I don't,
I just get an error in the TED.LOG:
' the source path %SOURCE_PATH% is invalid. Make sure the "%SO" variable
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policy is associated with the Distributor objects parent container.'
This means I have to set the SOURCE_PATH in that policy for the Distributor
and then specidy specific SOURCE_PATH variables on each subscriber
object... The golden app objects then reference this 'global variable'
with an appended path in the common sources e.g. %SOURCE_PATH%\acrobat
This works... however my concern is having to specify a single SOURCE_PATH
variable that is at the 'root' of all the applications.... If someone gets
trigger happy with an app distribution, they could inadvertently specify
just %SOURCE_PATH% and end up hoovering up all files and folders in that
structure..... I'm sure this would probably kill most of the subscribers
and wan links....!
There must be a better way?! Any suggestions welcome!
Many thanks
David
BTW ZFS/ZFD 6.5SP2!

Further clarification:
The issue is with MSI based application distribution. It seems that MSI
based app distributions do not read/accept the SOURCE_PATH macro setting
when gathering the Common->Sources Package Source List...
Effectively the same method for distributing a snapshot based app works
fine i.e. the Distrubitors gatherer process accepts the SOURCE_PATH macro
setting from the snapshot based app as the SOURCE_PATH variable for the
distribution and modifies its value accordingly.
We are specifying SOURCE_PATH in the Common->Macros property page on both
types of apps. The only difference is that the snapshot app references the
macro in the Distribution Options->Application Files Source column,
whereas the MSI based app references the macro in the Common->Sources
Package Source List
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(Another approach may be to allow the SOURCE_PATH variable to be set upon
the distribution but there doesnt seem to be a mechanism to set variables
on a specific distribution, only the distributor)
Can someone please clarify what's going on during the distribution?
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> I'm struggling to understand how to best specify and use SOURCE_PATH when
> distributing apps from a single distributor to subscribers that have a
> different volume and folder structure... (legacy servers)
>
> The apps are predominantly MSI, so we need to bear in mind that the
> distribution just hoovers up everything under the path specified in
> Common->Sources folder.
>
> Ideally i'd like to set the SOURCE_PATH on the individual app object and
> then use some 'variablisation' (!?!) on the subscribers to sort the paths
> out. However, I can only get the distributor to gather if the SOURCE_PATH
> variable is set at the TED policy within the service location package that
> is specified on the container above the distributor object... (If I don't,
> I just get an error in the TED.LOG:
>
> ' the source path %SOURCE_PATH% is invalid. Make sure the "%SO" variable
> value is defined in the Tiered Electronic Distribution policy, and that the
> policy is associated with the Distributor objects parent container.'
>
> This means I have to set the SOURCE_PATH in that policy for the Distributor
> and then specidy specific SOURCE_PATH variables on each subscriber
> object... The golden app objects then reference this 'global variable'
> with an appended path in the common sources e.g. %SOURCE_PATH%\acrobat
>
> This works... however my concern is having to specify a single SOURCE_PATH
> variable that is at the 'root' of all the applications.... If someone gets
> trigger happy with an app distribution, they could inadvertently specify
> just %SOURCE_PATH% and end up hoovering up all files and folders in that
> structure..... I'm sure this would probably kill most of the subscribers
> and wan links....!
>
> There must be a better way?! Any suggestions welcome!
> Many thanks
>
> David
> BTW ZFS/ZFD 6.5SP2!

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Hi Everyone,
Crazy situation.
Users are installing the iTunes on the machines as instructed.
The users are using the applications as instructed, but when they connect
the device to the machine with iTunes, and restart the applications on the iPod touch, the applications just flash that they are starting, then exit.
It almost appears that the in house distribution certificate is not on the devices.
On devices that have not connected to the iTunes, the apps start and run with no problems. As soon as they the devices to the iTunes machine, the applications stop working.
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Is there a way to stop iTunes from doing anything other than run in the background?
I guess there is a part two....
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thanks
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Message was edited by: alt-088.... small typo

Update -
It seems the users that "barnstormed" the installation are what is causing the issues.
When I distribute iTunes without bonjour and update and sync'ing, the units work well. Its when the users did the iTunes themselves, either having an iPod before they received the company issued devices, or an iPhone and have already installed iTunes in the normal way.
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