Xcode Managed Certificates / Provisioning Profiles and MDM

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Created Jun ’17

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I have a couple Enterprise Apps which I distribute through an MDM provider.

In the past, I would create an iOS Distribution Certificate and Distribution Provisioning Profile at developer.apple.com and then manually upload them to the MDM provider, as well as manually download them into Xcode and configure within each App.

Today, with Xcode 8, I let Xcode manage signing.

I don't understand if this change negates the necessity to upload certificates and provisioning profiles to MDM separate from the App Bundle.

If it does not, I don't understand how to access the Xcode managed certificates and provisioning profiles to upload to MDM.

Can someone give me a clue please?

Answer 1

guywithmazda OP

Jul ’17

If you log in to developer.apple.com and go to the Member Center, you can choose "Certificates, IDs & Profiles". Clicking on a certificate or profile should show you a Download button.

EDIT: In our account, the Xcode - created distribution profiles have an XC in front of them, but they do still have a Download button when I click on them.

Answer 2

dontek OP

Jul ’17

I have no Distribution Profiles @ developer.apple.com besides the ones I've manually created, despite Xcode being connected to the account and reading "Provisioning Profile Xcode Managed Profile" under the Signing portion of the General information for the Target. Do I need to do something in Xcode to get the managed Certificates and Profiles to synchronize? I've already clicked the "Download All Profiles" button for the Apple ID within Xcode Preferences, even though I didn't expect it to help.

Answer 3

guywithmazda OP

Jul ’17

I probably created the profiles manually, before I switched to Xcode managed, so maybe it is still using the ones I created manually. When I go to Window > Organizer and click the Export... button and choose Save for Enterprise Deployement, when I get to the Summary step where it shows the "Binary and Entitlements" and "Provisioning Profile" list, there is a gray arrow next to the provisioning profile. When I click the arrow, Finder opens on a folder with a bunch of provisioning profiles in it, and the one it is going to use highlighted. Do you get the same? If so, maybe that is the Xcode managed one.