When you purchase content for your school or business in Apps and Books, you can distribute your purchases directly to your users in one of three ways.You can use the User Assignment and Device Assignment features of managed distribution, or the redemption codes feature of Apple Business Manager.
Please read “Signing Your Apps for Gatekeeper”, “Create, export, and delete signing certificates”, and “Distribute outside the Mac App Store (macOS)”. Because I regularly develop, sign, notarize, and distribute macOS apps outside the App Store, I have certificates with the following types of names in my Mac’s Keychain, shown below. macOS Big Sur elevates the world's most advanced desktop operating system to a new level of power and beauty. Experience Mac to the fullest with a refined new design. Enjoy the biggest Safari update ever. Discover new features for Maps and Messages. And get even more transparency around your privacy. Content distribution. Use Apple School Manager and Apple Business Manager to find, buy, and distribute content in volume to meet your organization’s needs. Learn more about purchasing apps and books in volume. Add the NewMacApp to the App Center. Go to your account in the App Center. Click the button Add new app in the top right corner. Type the App name e.g. Select macOS in the OS radio group. Press the button Add new app in the bottom. Find and copy the API Key for the NewMacApp from the Overview screen. An API Key for the NewMacApp.
Managed distribution | Redemption codes3 | ||
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User Assignment | Device Assignment | ||
Requirements |
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| -- |
Distribution of free apps | ✓ | ✓ | -- |
Distribution of paid apps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Distribution of custom apps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Distribution of free books | ✓ | -- | -- |
Distribution of paid books | ✓ | -- | ✓ |
Mobile Device Management (MDM) used for distribution1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
If apps are revoked or reassigned, the organization retains ownership | ✓ | ✓ | -- |
Apple ID isn't required for access to apps | -- | ✓ | -- |
Content is available across multiple devices in purchase history | ✓ | -- | ✓ |
Content is available via family sharing | -- | -- | ✓ |
End users can make and restore in-app purchases2 | ✓ | -- | ✓ |
1. Some MDMs may support managed distribution and/or redeemable codes. Contact your MDM provider for more information on the requirements.
2. While in-app purchases aren't supported as standalone content that can be bought and distributed with Apps and Books, end users can make and restore in-app purchases from within Apps and Books-assigned apps, as long as those apps aren't device-assigned. How to give an app access mac.
3. Redemption codes are available only in Apple Business Manager.
If you want to switch from redeemable codes to managed distribution
Distribute Your Macos App Install
If you are currently using redeemable codes and you want to use managed distribution, learn how to migrate to managed distribution.
If your new Apps and Books purchases don’t show up for assignment in your MDM solution
Apps and Books server tokens are valid for one calendar year after initial download. Before the year is up, you need to go to the Account Summary section on the Apps and Books Store to obtain a new token. You also need to perform these steps if you ever change your password.
If you want to use managed distribution, but don’t have an MDM solution
Apple offers Apple Configurator 2 and Profile Manager as part of macOS Server. There are also many third-party options depending on the needs of your organization.
For more information on managing devices, visit:
Macos App Store
• Managing devices for Education
• Managing devices for Business
Distribute Your Macos App Windows 10
Some apps and books might not be available subject to country or region and developer opt-in. See program and content availability.
Creating a Custom Release with surf-build
- Install Surf, via npm:
npm install -g surf-build@latest
- Create a new S3 bucket and create the following empty directory structure:On your Mac, use Notifications System Preferences to specify when you don’t want to be disturbed by notifications, and to control how apps show notifications and how they’re sorted in Notification Center. To change these preferences, choose Apple menu System Preferences, then click Notifications. https://acdccu.weebly.com/blog/clicking-desktop-notification-opens-app-mac.
- Set the following Environment Variables:
ELECTRON_GITHUB_TOKEN
- a token that can create releases on GitHubELECTRON_S3_ACCESS_KEY
,ELECTRON_S3_BUCKET
,ELECTRON_S3_SECRET_KEY
-the place where you'll upload Node.js headers as well as symbolsELECTRON_RELEASE
- Set totrue
and the upload part will run, leave unsetandsurf-build
will do CI-type checks, appropriate to run for everypull request.CI
- Set totrue
or else it will failGITHUB_TOKEN
- set it to the same asELECTRON_GITHUB_TOKEN
SURF_TEMP
- set toC:Temp
on Windows to prevent path too long issuesTARGET_ARCH
- set toia32
orx64
- In
script/upload.py
, you must setELECTRON_REPO
to your fork (MYORG/electron
),especially if you are a contributor to Electron proper. surf-build -r https://github.com/MYORG/electron -s YOUR_COMMIT -n 'surf-PLATFORM-ARCH'
- Wait a very, very long time for the build to complete.