IOS Enterprise Provisioning App Distribution Profile Via Secure External Link

Question

Can I enable the Provisioning Profile for an Apple Enterprise Developer app in .ipa, similar to how iOS ad hoc wireless distribution works? So basically you can create a self-installing .ipa file for enterprise applications that you can provide for users to install the application? The documentation for the apple is a bit vague regarding the restrictions on the profile of the provision of enterprise resources ...... Can users simply install the application on their own without having to manually copy the Provisioning Profile to their devices via iTunes.

If possible, is it acceptable to distribute an Enterprise application through an external link (not internally)? The link will be safe, so only company employees will have access to it through a secure external web portal ...

Does Enterprise Provisioning Profiles Expire? If users could get a new provisioning profile, if they clicked on a link to a new ipa file (with a new built-in Provisioning Enterprise Provisioning Profile)? Are there any potential problems to replace the legacy initialization profile with the current one using this distribution method?

Answer 1

Yes, you can do what you want. In xcode4, when you share the archive, you check the box "... as an enterprise ..." and fill in the top two entries (link and name), and then place the resulting ipa only in the position where you said d in the link. This is pretty anal about everything that you described. Create a web page with a download link that looks something like this:

<a href="itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=PUT THE FULL URL TO YOUR PLIST HERE"> blab blah blah</a> 

Then upload ipa and plist to where you said they will be (probably next to each other).