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Deploy apps and books
Overview
You can use the following ways to deploy apps and books:
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Use your MDM server to instruct managed Apple devices to install an in-house or App Store
app, if your MDM server supports it.
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Post the app on a secure web server, so users can access and perform the installation
wirelessly. For information, see Install in-house apps wirelessly.
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You can install the app on iOS devices locally using Apple Congurator.
Install apps and books using MDM
An MDM server can manage third-party apps from the App Store, as well as in-house apps. Apps
installed using MDM are called managed apps. The MDM server can specify whether managed
apps and their data remain when the user unenrolls from MDM. The server can prevent managed
app data from being backed up to iTunes and iCloud. This lets you manage apps that may
contain sensitive business information with more control than apps downloaded directly by
the user.
In order to install a managed app, the MDM server sends an installation command to the Apple
device. If the app is from the App Store, it will be downloaded and installed from Apple. If it’s an
in-house it will be installed from your MDM solution. On unsupervised devices, managed apps
require a user’s acceptance before they’re installed.
On iOS 7 or later and OS X Mavericks or later, VPN connections can be specied at the app layer,
so only the network trac for that app is in the protected VPN tunnel. This ensures that private
data remains private, and public data doesn’t get mixed with it.
Managed apps support Managed Open In in iOS 7 or later. This means that managed apps
can be restricted from transferring data to or from the user’s personal apps, which lets your
organization ensure that sensitive data remains where it needs to be.
An MDM server can install books from the iBooks Store that you have assigned to the user using
VPP. It can also install managed PDFs, ePubs, and iBooks Author books from your own servers,
and update them with newer versions as needed. The server can prevent managed books from
being backed up. Managed books will be removed when the user unenrolls from MDM.
Install apps with Apple Congurator
Apple Congurator simplies basic setup and conguration tasks—but it can also be used to
install apps and other content on iOS devices. Apple Congurator is most helpful when it’s
used to supervise devices that won’t be personalized by the user, such as shared iPad devices in
a classroom.
In addition to apps, you can use Apple Congurator to install documents so they’re available
when your users start using the devices. Documents are available for apps that support iTunes
le sharing. You can also review or retrieve documents from iOS devices by connecting them to a
Mac running Apple Congurator.
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