Pushing App Updates through Profile Manager

We are currently using Lion Server's builtin Profile Manager to manage a variety of iPads. I have been able to use it to push out new apps to the end users however I have not figured out a way to push out app updates. Is this possible?
For example our student iPads have Evernote ver. 4.1.9 currently installed. I would like to upgrade them to ver. 4.4.0. If I delete the the current Evernote app from the iPad I am able to then push the updated version. If I try to simply overwrite it the task appears to have worked from the view of the Profile Manager but the new version of the app is not installed on the iPad.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

I found the problem. The device group that the laptop in question was assigned to also has an option for fast user switching that was not enabled. I enabled it there and the problem was resolved.

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The problem arise with "new release" of an existing app. For example, the developper (a web agency) release the 1.1 version of an existing app (in version 1.0).
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PYC

Watch this video. It education based, but that's OK.
There are three ownership models:
Personal
Institution
Layered. combines personal & institution.
Here is the apple video on Layered ownership:
http://www.apple.com/education/resources/videos/#ios-layered-ownership
IT Resources -- ios & OS X -- This is a fantastic web page. I like the education site over the business site.
View documentation, video tutorials, and web pages to help IT professionals develop and deploy education solutions.
http://www.apple.com/education/resources/information-technology.html
   business site is:
   http://www.apple.com/lae/ipad/business/resources/
   business site is:
   http://www.apple.com/lae/ipad/business/resources/
With VPP an mdm is handy. Meraki is web based & free.
MDM -- moble device management
MDMs
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I found the problem. The device group that the laptop in question was assigned to also has an option for fast user switching that was not enabled. I enabled it there and the problem was resolved.

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