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Distributing IOS Apps through SMC 3.6

Dave_C

HI, can anyone offer any guidance on purchasing/deploying IOS Apps through SMC?

I have enrolled in the Apple VPP scheme and downloaded the token to SMC, but cant find any instructions on where to go from here

I cant buy Apps through the VPP until I have set up a VPP Facilitator account, but cannot find out how to do this so cannot buy the apps.

And what happens then - the Apple documentaion implies that I then have to invite end users to create their own apple-id and link it to the VPP using iTunes to be abel to download the app, but this sounds very long-winded and complicated.

Surely the whole point of any MDM solution should be that it is able to deploy apps without the end-users involvement?

Any help or sadvice would be much appreciated....

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    Hi Dave_C,

    at first you have to invite your users to your VPP program and they have to subscribe to it using their personal Apple ID.
    The SMC administrator does not know the Apple ID the users used.

    This is also described in the VPP manual provided by Apple which is available here.

    Once the users subscribed you can assign them the apps. This "subsctiption" has only to be done once!

    A description how to invite users and assign them apps with Sophos Mobile Control is described in chapter 16.3 of the administrator guide which can be found on our documentation page.

    Unfortunately, this is the way it works and how it is implemented by Apple. We as an MDM vendor rely on the processes provided by Apple.

    Hope this helps.


    Best regards

    Stefan

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    Hi Dave_C,

    at first you have to invite your users to your VPP program and they have to subscribe to it using their personal Apple ID.
    The SMC administrator does not know the Apple ID the users used.

    This is also described in the VPP manual provided by Apple which is available here.

    Once the users subscribed you can assign them the apps. This "subsctiption" has only to be done once!

    A description how to invite users and assign them apps with Sophos Mobile Control is described in chapter 16.3 of the administrator guide which can be found on our documentation page.

    Unfortunately, this is the way it works and how it is implemented by Apple. We as an MDM vendor rely on the processes provided by Apple.

    Hope this helps.


    Best regards

    Stefan

    :46851
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