Installing an app remotely (using MDM)

I have read the Apple documentation regarding Mobile Device Management (MDM) but did not find what I was looking for. Can somebody开发者_JAVA技巧 help me with the following?

1. I have an enterprise account and I want to manage a few devices using MDM. Is it possible to install applications remotely (from the server side) to these devices that I am managing?

2. If yes, can someone give the procedure of doing it or some documentation related to this?

Thanks.

iOS 5 has added the ability to push a URL to the application manifest to the device using MDM, at which point the user will be asked if they want to install the application. The Apple MDM documentation has been updated to include the XML required to support this.

You can host an application on your server with distributed profile. please see following link under Installing app Installing Apps Wirelessly.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/FA_Wireless_Enterprise_App_Distribution/Introduction/Introduction.html

Apple's Mobile Device Management (MDM) APIs do not provide a way for the server to initiate the installation of an application. However, you can create an internal website to host your enterprise applications so your user's can download and install the apps wirelessly. The Apple spec for this can be found at Distributing Enterprise Apps for iOS Devices: Installing apps wirelessly Please note that you do not need an MDM server to do this. These two things are not related.

One interesting tidbit: The manifest file described in the spec can contain multiple apps. This allows you to provide your user's with a single link that could install a suite of applications if you wanted to.