iOS Application Installation

Question

I am trying to develop an enterprise environment where the specified app in the app store gets installed in all the iOS devices connected to the company infrastructure, which has a windows based AD to verify the users. I went through various materials, and I found over the air profile delivery and few other methods like MDM to push the configuration. But it seems only the configuration can be pushed using these features.

In Apple Configurator and iPhone Configuration Utility, the devices should be connected to the computer physically. I would like to install the app in all the company-owened devices (around 1000 devices) without asking any permission from the user. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

You can't take over people's devices without their permission. Nor can you stealth-install an app. You can use MDM to register devices on which you can do this, but they need to be registered first. Apple is currently making MDM features more powerful for the Enterprise environment. As an Enterprise developer, you don't have to use the app store for your app - you can distribute it over your own web server. So even if you go the MDM route, you'll have to register those 1000 devices first. Once you do that, you have a lot more control.