Where do Apps uploaded via Profile Manager go?

I've just up updated around 30+ apps and I've had to manually add them via profile manager one by one!
I was just wondering if anyone knew the location where the apps are stored on the server as I thought I could perhaps just drag and drop all of the updated ipas at once.

There are several tools which allow selecting network profile settings with respect to sites i.e. available network environment data:
ControlPlane - <http://www.controlplaneapp.com/>
Little Snitch - <http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/>
and maybe some more.
Additionally, you may find this discussion helpful:
ML Server: How do i push my school proxy settings to our ML clients?
i.e. <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4715399>

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You can set the lines via GUI in the old iPhone Configuration Program on Windows.
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greetings
robin

klatuu wrote:
It is not possible to set the following lines via GUI in Apples ProfileManager or via Apple Configurator in the IPSec section:
<key>XAuthPassword</key>
<string>myVPNuserPassword</string>
You can set the lines via GUI in the old iPhone Configuration Program on Windows.
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We use certificates for device authentication.
Anyone a solution ?
greetings
robin
Yes, there are two possible solutions.
1. As per my article here http://jelockwood.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/how-to-do-vpn-on-demand-for-ios-at-zero .html you would use a StrongSwan VPN server and as per my article use the xauth-noauth plugin to prevent it asking for a username and password, it will then only use the client certificate for device authentication.
2. You can use the two keys listed above but you will have to manually edit the mobileconfig file and add them. Therefore you cannot use Profile Manager or Apple Configurator. For this I used iPhone Configuration Utility to create the initial mobileconfig file, and then I used TextWrangler to add the two keys. With a manually produced mobileconfig file I do not believe there is anyway to send it via Profile Manager but you can either email it to the device or make it available via a web server. Other MDM solutions than Profile Manager do allow pushing uploaded mobileconfig files, I used Meraki Systems Manager and pushed my hand edited mobileconfig files 'over the air' to the devices.
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Hello,
we are using OS X Server Profile Manager to push enterprise Apps to an iPad fleet. It is working quite fine for the "initial" download : when a new app is made available to the iPads, it is downloaded without any problem.
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.
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Personal
Institution
Layered. combines personal & institution.
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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
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   business site is:
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Worked it out!
I also host a couple of personal websites and these were configured to use the IP of the server; removed this and set it to use the "Any" option and profile manager started working as expected. Not done a full test of the entire thing to see if anything else is broken but this has me moving on from here!

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Hi,
Been helping out at a school where they have bought 90 iPads for their kids to use - after weeks of frustrations they were all finally enrolled on the mac server (runs OS X Yosemite). Thought I had finally managed to help them finish it off but now when they try too push out apps from profile manager they're having an issue.
The devices are grouped in groups of 30 and when I tried too push out an app to them (Scratch Jr, if that makes any difference at all) it would only push out to 14 of the iPads in the group - with varying degrees of success. The room there kept in doesn't have a great signal from their wi-fi so I thought it might have something to do with that but when I tried to push out another app (PhotoMath) it got pushed out to all the iPads in the group, again with varying degrees of success.
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Excellent guide. See announcment post -- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4256735?tstart=0
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SMBgyzONxcx6_FswgkW9XYLpA4oCt_2y1uw9ceMZ9F4/ edit?pli=1
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http://www.apple.com/education/resources/information-technology.html
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