Over on the Jamf Blog, I have an article on “Managed Xcode Deployment.” In it I explain what the special challenges for managed deployments of Xcode and how MacAdmins can solve them.
Most of the challenges from Xcode come from the fact that it is a very big application. But there is also the problem that Xcode doesn’t really play by the rules that all other third party applications in the Mac App Store have to abide by, because it does install extra software and requires administrator privileges on first install…
Check out the post for my solutions!