Custom App Management - How to remotely install custom application?
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In this KB article, We will explain how to install custom/3rd party applications on device(s) which are located far away from your office or operations center.
Custom or 3rd party applications are the specific applications for your organization. Your organization may not want certain applications available publicly, on Play Store, and they need to be pushed to device(s) as and when required or updates need to be installed. WeGuard provides a mechanism to remotely install custom applications.
Note that any changes made as shown below, will be reflected to ALL devices within the policy.
- Go to the Policy Groups page, in this page you will see all your policies.
- Select the policy to which you would want to add a custom application. Click on policy name to view further details of policy.
- By default you’ll land on ‘GENERAL’. Now scroll down and go to ‘App Management’.
- The landing page would be ‘PRIVATE STORE’. For the first time you will see an empty page as there are no apps added.
- To add apps, Scroll down a little to find a “+” icon and click on it, and select “Upload APK”. It is assumed that you already have an apk file.
- In “Upload APK” pop up, click on “Click here to upload”, which opens file explorer (this may be slightly different depending on the OS you are using to access WeGuard), go to the folder where you have placed the apk file and select it. Waze application has been used to demonstrate this feature in the next set of screenshots.
- Now click Upload and make sure the file is uploaded 100 %.
- Now click on “SAVE AND CONTINUE” to reflect the changes on the device.
- Once policy is saved, notice the version of the policy gets incremented by 1.
- It may take some time for the app to get installed depending on the strength of the network available to the device. Below screen indicates, waze app got installed on the device.
We hope this article was useful. Thank you for reading.
If you need any help on this, do call up WeGuard Support +1 833-936-2253 or contact WeGuard Support Email
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