Handling of AppStore

[maiksanftenberg]

I know that there are some topics around this, but I want to ask for your attitude and handling of the AppStore.
The problem is for now that some applications are only available in the AppStore.

This could be a little bit pain for us as we are an Agency and people like there little "stuff".
And we failed with our applications as it seems that this apps are checking the receipt of the app.

So I'm very interested how you handle this.

Thanks a lot

[nortonpc]

For our 10.7 machines it is blocked because we use an internal SUS.

For 10.8 we limited the appstore to updates only, and then executed a fix to allow regular users to install updates. There are some posts out there on adding users to the _appstore group to allow them to install software however.

A configuration profile with the domain: com.apple.appstore and property list of {restrict-store-softwareupdate-only=true} limits the appstore to updates only.

Allows the user to run updates without being an admin:

security authorizationdb write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.scan allow
security authorizationdb write system.install.apple-software allow

That is how we do it.

[maiksanftenberg]

Thanks Patrick.

We run software updates through Self Service and important system updates are installed via a script on the start up that works like charm.

But thanks for your command.