Is there any tips on packaging logic pro 10.2.1?

[5Y54DMIN]

Is there any tips on packaging logic pro 10.2.1?

[milesleacy]

In order of best practice outward...

1. Don't. Use VPP.
2. Intercept the App Store package and deploy that. @rtrouton did a writeup on how: https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/downloading-apples-server-app-installer-package/

Anything else is asking for the proverbial Bag of Hurt. Option 2 just carries a Small Parcel of Hurt.

[Aziz]

You can also download the additional content:

https://brianli.com/download-logic-pro-x-additional-content-files/

[donmontalvo]

@milesleacy wrote:

Intercept the App Store package and deploy that.

If the new feature in 9.8x is of value, might want to think that one through.

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=18244#responseChild108419

From page 4 of the 9.82 release notes...

Has anyone confirmed if this feature is tied in any way to the Apple ID used to purchase those apps?

[5Y54DMIN]

@milesleacy @donmontalvo

Doesn't that violate the TOS of apple?

[milesleacy]

@donmontalvo and @pgh, you've hit upon the contents of the Small Parcel of Hurt.

[Aziz]

@pgh We just purchased enough licenses through VPP to cover us.

It's a revolving door of hurt.

[5Y54DMIN]

@milesleacy

Small Parcel of Hurt.

What does that mean?

[5Y54DMIN]

@Abdiaziz

So what you did was purchase the amount of Volume licenses you needed, however you didn't deploy useing VPP in casper just intercepted the package and installed it?

[bpavlov]

@pgh It's an idiom: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bag+of+Hurt

[milesleacy]

@pgh yes, sorry I get carried away with the nice nerd idioms at times. "Small Parcel of Hurt" was my riff on the Bag of Hurt that @bpavlov linked to.

Apple's intended mass/enterprise deployment solution for App Store apps is the Volume Purchase Program (VPP). Using any other method becomes a practice in the acceptance and attempted mitigation of varying degrees of failure.

[Aziz]

@pgh

Yup! Only for certain software though, Logic being one of them.

[donmontalvo]

The problem in intercepting Apple's package is the application is installed with no tie to the licensed Apple ID.

I doubt circumventing the Apple App Store licensing process is legal. VPP is indeed the best option, if available/possible.

Where it is not, install via App Store, wrap and deploy, and probl s are avoided. What's broken with that process?