Hi folks,
first, I want to apologize for my bad English. I'm out of practice since several years and Google Translator is not the best assistance.
We are developing a Windows 8 LOB App for our customer. This App shall only be available for the employees of this customer. Therefore, releasing the App in the Windows Store is not an option.
As far as I understand the announcements by Microsoft, it is now possible to sideload Windows Store Apps on devices where Windows 8.1 Pro Update is installed. The requirements are the app has to be signed, the group policy "Allow all trusted apps to install"
has to be enabled and the devices must be part of a domain. A sideloading key is not required anymore.
At the moment I try to sideload an app to an Windows 8.1 Pro lenovo tablet. The System is up to date and the device is part of an AD-Domain.
To sideload the app, I've done the following:
-> First I deleted the developer license from my testing device.
-> Then I've created a code signing certificate with mkcert and Pvk2Pfx according to.
-> Creating and signing the App package with Visual Studio 2013 worked without problems.
-> I activated the local GP "Allow all trusted apps to install" and installed the certificate under the local machine\Trusted Root Certification Authority certificate store.
But when I try to install the app with Add-AppPackage, the process abort with an error. The error message says, that a developer license or a sideloading key is required.
What do I wrong? Has someone managed to sideload an App to a domain joined Windows 8.1 Pro device and can give me some advice?
Many thanks in advance.
Tobias