Hi All,

According to the documentation on Sideloading Requirements for LoB apps, it mentioned that a certain Group Policy needs to be enabled on domain-joined devices.

The company for which we are developing the app for, has the device connected to their AD. However, their AD schema is not at the correct functional level to push out Group Policies to domain-joined devices.

The Group Policy Allow all trusted apps to install was enabled using the Local Group Policy Editor. I tried enabling the Allow development of Windows Store apps without installing a developer license using the same. But, while installing the app package, it still asks me to 'Acquire a developer license'.

Am I missing something here? I read elsewhere, that the certificate which was used to sign the app, should also be made available on the device. If so, where should I store this certificate on the device?

The app was developed using Visual Studio (C#).

Your input would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

AB

• Moved by Rob Caplan [MSFT]Microsoft employee Friday, June 20, 2014 1:02 AM

I'm actually having the same issue. We have a trusted "root" cert that we deploy as part of our company policy that we use for internal sites and applications. When we started developing internal W8 apps "modern apps" we used the same cert but yet still are asked for a dev account to allow side loading even though we have the GPO's set correctly and are using a domain joined PC. I'm interested to see what others say that will hopefully help!

Hi,

if you wants installing a Windows Store app without publishing it in and downloading it from the store, than you need to have a Sideloading License available in open license.

Enterprise Sideloading can be enabled in two ways.

First is if you are running Windows 8.1 Enterprise or Windows 8.1 Pro, this is enabled when the machine is domain joined.

If you have a device running Windows 8.1 RT, or a non-domain joined Windows 8.1 Enterprise or Windows 8.1 Pro machine, you need to use a product key to enable this feature.

To get these keys starting May 1, 2014, organizations that have an EA, EAS, Select/Select Plus, EES or CASA agreement will be granted sideloading license rights and provided keys through VLSC

If an organization is not in one of these agreements they have the option to purchase sideloading rights available via Open License at ~$100 starting May 1, 2014.

thanks

diramoh

 

 

Hello Diramoh,

Thank you for the feedback.

Please help me understand this. It seems to me that irrespective of whether a device is domain-joined, it needs a Sideloading Product Key (to not go through Windows Store for app distribution)?

Would the following be applicable for us to sideload our app:

1) Configure PC to enable Sideloading. In case of domain-joined devices, this is enabled (only if it is pushed as an Enterprise Group Policy).

In our case, since the AD schema is not up to date; this was done using Local Group Policy Editor.

2) Configure PCs for developing Windows Store Apps:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh852635.aspx#BKMK_DeveloperLicense

The above link asks us to enable another Group Policy - Allow development of Windows Store apps without installing a developer license.

In our case, again, this was done using Local Group Policy Editor.

3) Have Sideloading Product Keys.

From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh852635.aspx#SideloadingRequirements, for domain-joined devices, it does not mention that you need sideloading product keys.

This is confusing.

4) Unknown factor - Is there anything extra to be enabled in the code itself? While signing the App Package, are there extra steps that need to be taken?

I appreciate your help with this.

Thank you,

AB

It depends on the version, and edition, of the client machine OS, because things changed a little bit when Win8.1 was released. (sideloading became a little easier, and, less expensive)

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/springboard/archive/2014/04/03/windows-8-1-sideloading-enhancements.aspx

http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=16266

older: http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/springboard/archive/2013/02/21/sideloading-windows-8-store-apps.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2012/04/25/deploying-metro-style-apps-to-businesses.aspx