We have build an enterprise iPad App and now we want to give it to our employees. Initially when testing, we used ad-hoc distribution collecting all the test device\'s UDID
As of December 2011, these are the steps:
http://oursite.com/myApp.ipa
)<a href="itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=http:/oursite.com/myApp.plist" id="text">
You do not need to manage UDIDs if you are using an enterprise profile.
To install an enterprise app you need a provisioning profile built with your distribution certificate on each device. See Does an iPhone Enterprise provisioning profile need to specify phone UUIDs like an ad-hoc provisioning profile does?
Probably the best way to distribute your enterprise mobile app and then securely manage users, groups, data and devices is using a Mobile Device Manager (MDM) tool suite.
iOS provides specific APIs that support enterprise deployment via MDM products with API level features like Per App VPN connections that allow you to firewall a DMZ application server to only connect to a specific signed client iOS app. The vendors also provided authentication SSO integration and encrypted storage on the devices to sandbox your enterprise apps from other untrusted personal apps on a BYOD device.
Here's the Gartner 2013 review of MDM products:
The 3 major players are now: Air Watch, Mobile Iron and Citrix XenMobile.
NOTE: I don't work for or have a vested interest in any MDM vendor.
There are two solutions
Try testflightapp.com
It does everything for you. It even has a SDK which I found very useful in debugging scenarios with logs and crash reports.
If you are looking to have your own hosted solution for the enterprise then http://hockeykit.net/ is the best bet.
It has a client application which makes the upgrade process painless. It also have a server side code which you can deploy on your server.
https://github.com/TheRealKerni/HockeyKit
Update 2013-11-23:
We have been using Diawi happily for quite some time.
I've created tool (it's beta, so please be patient with it:)) for generating manifests from ipa file online:
http://manifest-generator.knejzlik.cz/
It generates plist with index.html file. All you need is to put content of downloaded archive to your site.
You can use hockey, diawi etc. but sometimes you just want something simple that allows you to host it on your server. I was searching for a simple, basic php script that can do this but did not found any that suited my needs so I wrote a simple single php file server by myself and you can find it here:
https://github.com/leszek-s/LSIPASERVER
It has a list of all uploaded ipa files, upload page with password protected upload and each uploaded ipa has it's own page so you can send a link to specific uploaded ipa to someone. Feel free to use it on your own server.