While going through the article at "http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/04/19/managing-quot-byo-quot-pcs-in-the-enterprise-including-woa.aspx", I came across the statement "The agent then performs a service lookup to locate the organization’s management infrastructure based on the user’s email address."
I understand that this is how the Company App connect to the organization's network. The questions are:
What is this service? Is this something that will be developed and hosted by the organization?
If yes, then how will be Company App will connect to this specific service URL for enrolling?
Windows RT devices can be managed with Windows Intune and Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1. Intune is a cloud-based service from Microsoft (11$ per month and user) whereas SCCM is self-hosted in the network of your company.
Because there is no information about the protocol used by Microsoft currently, it's hard to tell whether a custom implementation will be possible in the future. It's likely that they use a similiar protocol as used by the Windows Phone 8 MDM agent (OMA DM XML).
Have a look at this article to get an idea how you can manage your Windows RT devices with Windows Intune.
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I'm running Windows 10 IT Core on a few Raspberry Pi 3 devices. For these devices, I have developed an application, which reads some sensor data and posts them to a web service. Now when I have to make changes to this app, I have to update it on all these devices.
Do I need to put the app in the Microsoft store for this task, or are there other ways?
There are several ways to update applications on your IoT device with Windows IoT Core.
Using Microsoft Store: The app is published and updated from the Microsoft Store.Please note that the Microsoft Store Client is not supported in Windows 10 IoT Core,so it can not update app by using Microsoft Store Client like on Windows Desktop.In this option, the apps that is pre-packaged needs to be Microsoft Store compliant apps (store signed), and need to put to store.
Using Component Update Service: The app is published to Windows Update and updated like any other OEM package (driver package).But it is in schedule and coming soon.
Using Azure IoT Device Management: The app is published to Azure Storage and updated through the Azure DM channel New for Windows 10, version 1709.
Using OMA-DM: The app is updated using an OMA-DM compliant device management channel such as Intune or System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
We have implemented a Windows 8 app. We tested the app by sideloading on both Windows 8.1 Pro and Enterprise. The app is working as expected when both the machines are connected to the domain. If both the machines are out of the domain, the app does not work and we receive the following error ‘This app can’t open. There’s a problem with app. Contact your system administrator about repairing or reinstalling it’. Also, in the event log the following error was displayed ‘Activation of the app 589f3680-7094-4066-92ee-75cd86b75bc1_5gyrq6psz227t!App for the Windows. Launch contract was blocked with error 0x80073CFC because its package is in state: Modified‘. We checked through on your sites and it is mentioned that Enterprise Sideloading key is mandatory for the app to work if the machine is not connected to the domain.
If we publish the app on Windows Store using ‘Targeted App Distribution’ method, do we still need to worry about the Enterprise Sideloading key or will the key be available when we will create a developer account on the Windows Center? Let us know.
Let us know if we are missing anything. Also, it will be helpful if you suggest any appropriate way as we need the Windows app to work without being connected to the domain.
Thanks
You could sideload the app if you have a developer license registered on the target machine. You can get a developer license via Visual Studio or with this powershell command:
Get-WindowsDeveloperLicense
However the developer license needs to be renewed every month.
See my answer here how to sideload an app:
sideload windows 8 apps to multiple devices?
I want to create Metro apps for Windows 8, and I have VS 2012, but I need a developer's license. If I use fake credentials, will I be able to later get a different developer's license with a different Microsoft account on the same computer?
If I can change it later, how?
The developer account you are entering can be as far as I know independent to the real account you will use for publishing your apps.
Every time you want to create app package for uploading you're entering your credentials, in case you want to develop under several different accounts, so yes, there should be no problem when using different account for "activating Windows 8 development" and for publishing your apps.
Friends. I am new to windows azure concept. Just i want to knw whether we can host my asp.net application developed in visual studio 2010 with sql server 2008 or i need to develop my application in windows azure environment?
ii). Whether they provide both hosting and storage?
if it so what are the steps to implement it as a beginner?
Please can any one suggest a clear idea about it.
This is a pretty generic question. To get started, I strongly suggest downloading the Windows Azure Training Kit which will guide you through all the basics through advanced topics.
You can absolutely run asp.net apps and SQL Server apps in Windows Azure. You'll need to think about things like statelessness, scaling, and other things that might be different from an on-premises solution. You should see these topics discussed in the training kit.
Last week, Windows Azure Web Sites was introduced - this is an extremely simple way to deploy an asp.net site to Windows Azure.
As far as "is it right to host my application in windows Azure" - that type of question doesn't fit here, as it will simply open the floor for debate.
Is it possible to host a Windows Application to be hosted in Windows Azure cloud service provided by Mircrosoft.
Windows Azure is best suited for hosting either web facing applications (i.e. web sites) or data processing applications (like traditional Windows Services). Desktop Windows applications that require user interaction would not be a good fit for Windows Azure.