Question on deploying apps downloaded from app store

bbot
Contributor

I'm working on rolling out OneNote in Self Service for our users. I'm packaging it with composer.

I'm running into an issue where a user wants to update OneNote (or any program I downloaded from App Store), it prompts for the Apple ID I used to install it when I packaged the program. The option is greyed out and doesn't allow them to change it.

Is there a file in the package contents that is saving my Apple ID?

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bbot
Contributor

Nevermind... Figured it out.

I deleted a file called "receipt" in the _MASReceipt folder.

adamcodega
Valued Contributor

Why not use VPP? Just curious.

bbot
Contributor

@adamcodega I wasn't aware that VPP existed. Looking into this now :)

AdamH
New Contributor II

OneNote is also free, so anyone can get it from the App Store anyway. When dealing with a non-free app, deleting the MAS receipt may not always work.
We're working on getting VPP going as well. So far so good but there are some caveats to it.