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EDIT: I have taken out the majority of this post.



Start packaging receipts with an AppleID you control and control your users access to MAS and keep on top of updates.



Academically it's useful to know you can use information from these two posts to get .pkgs out of the MAS so I have included it below, but DO NOT try to use this method to distribute MAS apps to end users.



Read Rich's original post:



http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/downloading-apples-server-app-installer-package/



My small post describing success using this with iLife apps:



http://mattzago.com/blog/2013/10/21/getting-packages-out-of-the-app-store

@cstout, I was able to accomplish what you want by using Composer to capture the iApps that came with a brand new computer. All but GarageBand involve grabbing the application located in the Applications folder and packaging it with Composer. GarageBand has some additional parts located in the /Library/Application Support/GarageBand and /Library/Audio folders that needed capturing. The problem with this method is the apps installed on the new computer may not be the most recent version of the app from the App Store. But I can confirm that using this version will prompt the end user for their AppleID credentials in order to update the Applications.

@mpermann, Thank you for sharing. That method works great as well. I don't see any problem in using slightly outdated versions of it for this specific purpose. Even if you package the most recent version using the MAS pkg method it will still prompt you for an update and an Apple ID and re-download the entire app. Thankfully, we don't have very many computers we need to do this to as we control the updates for these apps through Casper.

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