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Mass update of app deployed via app policy / managed play store.

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Hi all,

First time posting but I've been soaking up knowledge in here for some time and appreciate the expertise found in here a lot!

We've deployed an app through the managed play store on our AEDO enrolled devices. We opted to deploy the apps with the "postpone" updating cadence, so as to not receive a potentially unstable version immediately.

But now we've run into the opposite issue instead where we need to perform a bulk update.

Any ideas on how to send out a bulk update to apps deployed by app policy & managed play store?

If anyone is sitting on a script that they've used for this I would appreciate that a ton!

We're on MC 2024.1.2 and are running various Zebra devices, all on Android 13.

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2 months ago
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Rafael Schäfer
2 months ago

You can't really push (force) an update for apps being deployed via MGP (even not via script).

You can do 2 things:
1. If you have the official apk (from the app developer), you can provide the newer version via package/profile or enterprise app policy to simulate a "force" update of the app.
2. You can try (never tested) to set the app deployment from "postpone" to "auto update" temporarily. But this is somehow not sure when this triggers on the device through MGP, so i would recommend the other way.

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T_R_
2 months ago

Hi Rafael,

 

Thanks for your input. I worried that may be the case when I tried to google-fu my way to a way to manage apps deployed with this method.

As time was of the essence, I ended up trying what you described in #2 and it seemed to work.

Manipulating this setting is not ideal though, as there doesn't seem to be any easy way to confirm which "updating mode" a installed app is in, in terms of postpone/auto update.

But hopefully all apps will have gotten the memo when I change back to postpone! :)

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