Hi

I'm working for a company to develop windows store apps. I need to know how exactly (step by step) to publish an enterprise app and side-load this app to run on users' devices with no expiration date.

After that I need to support auto-update for the application exactly like the apps on the store. And is there a way to support auto update the app from a local network not from the internet?!

Thnks

• Moved by Rob Caplan [MSFT]Microsoft employee Saturday, January 17, 2015 5:11 AM enterprise deployment

for sideloading you need to enable sideloading on the client computer

if the computer is domain joined you can enable sideloading in the group policies

if the computer isnt domain joined you need to buy a sideloading license.

After you did this you can install the appx with the powershell command add-appxpackage without an expiration date.

To have a more modern way of deploying like an enterprise appstore that also offers publishing new versions you need a Mobile device management solution. You can have a look at microsoft intune but that is cloud based, so you need an internet connection.

read this:

http://technet.microsoft.com/nl-nl/windows/jj874388.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/nl-nl/library/windows/apps/jj657971.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/micham/archive/2014/05/30/sideloading-store-apps-to-windows-8-1-devices.aspx

But I need to support auto update the app from a local network not from the internet

System Center Configuration Manager can be used to deploy Modern/WS Apps.

But AFAIK, there isn't any builtin capability in Windows for auto-updating Modern apps at all - it requires an "agent" of some kind.

Even the Windows Store app itself is kind of an agent, in that the Windows Store app would communicate with the Windows Store webservices to check for app updates.

You *might* be able to implement something a little like "auto update" using scripting, e.g. startup scripts in GPO, that could perform sideloading tasks.

For the "no expiration" requirement, this is determined by the signing certificate approach you choose, and the validity period of the certificates used.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2012/04/25/deploying-metro-style-apps-to-businesses.aspx
this is an older article (some things have changed since Win8.1 and Win8.1u1 were released), but it provides an overview.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MMS/2013/DC-B320
Windows Store Apps: Enterprise LOB App Deployment Scenarios
this is a highly recommended video by Windows Deployment senior guru Michael Niehaus, which covers lots of great deep