You can install the mobile client, or any signed application
marked with the installer flag, on Windows 8
Universal by entering the access URL in your browser, entering your
credentials, and completing the required steps. The company account
must be preinstalled on your mobile device.
Before you begin
Before you can install apps published by your company, you
must add the company account to your mobile device. You must download
an application enrollment token (AET) to your Windows Phone device. This AET must already
be present on the
IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Server.
It is uploaded to the
MobileFirst Server by
using the Application Center console. See
Application enrollment tokens in Windows 8 Universal for
details.
Procedure
- Start the browser on your mobile device.
- Enter the following access URL in the address text field: http://hostname:portnumber/applicationcenter/installers.html.
Where hostname is the address of the server
and portnumber is the number of the port where
the Application Center is installed. Your system administrator can
provide this information.
The Application Center also provides
an alternative URL for installing the client on a mobile device: http://hostname:portnumber/applicationcenter/inst.html.
The page of this URL works better with some older or some nonstandard
mobile web browsers. If the page installers.html does
not work on your mobile device, you can use inst.html.
This page is provided in English only and is not translated into other
languages.
- Enter your credentials to authorize access to the server.
On the lower part of the screen, a toolbar contains an Installers tab
and a Tokens tab.
Figure 1. Preparing
to install tokens and applications on a Windows Phone device
- Tap Tokens and select an application
enrollment token in the list of available tokens to display the token
details.
Figure 2. AET details on a Windows Phone device
- Tap Add to download the application
enrollment token.
- Tap Add to add the company account.
Figure 3. Adding a company account in Windows 8 Universal device
Windows Phone 8
does not provide any feedback about adding the company account.
- Tap the Back icon to return to the details of application
enrollment tokens.
- Tap Installers and select the mobile
client application in the list of available applications. The
application details are displayed.
- Tap Install to download the selected
application.
Figure 4. The application selected to download
on a Windows Phone device
- Tap Install to install the application.
Figure 5. Installing the downloaded application on a Windows Phone device
Windows 8 Universal
does not provide any feedback about installing the application.
Tip: When you install a company application on a device, the
device must connect to the Microsoft server
to verify the application signature. Sometimes, the Microsoft server does not respond. In this
case, you can try the installation again a few minutes later. See
Installing an application on a Windows Phone device for
the possible error messages.
Results
When the installation is finished, the mobile client application
should be available in your applications list in Windows Phone.