So when you download apps from the App Store, they typically will get installed to your applications
folder and be an app directory, just like installed apps.
So in this instance, I want to take a look at Microsoft remote desktop.
And we can see it's it's an app with a content folder, just like the other apps.
Now, normally what we've done is we've copied things to our our Web server.
And we're going to do that with this program as well, though.
The problem is, is that you can't download a directory with Kerl from a Web server.
So to make all of our jobs consistent, what I'm going to do is I'm going to zip this up.
So to do that I am going to to zip and ah and then I'm going to give it a name and I'm going to do it
like this with spaces in it.
So I'm going to put it in quotes and then what we're going to do is give it the path of where our core
app is now, again, take off the last forward slash.
So we're basically zipping that the entire directory.
OK, and so now what we're going to do is we're going to copy the Microsoft zip folder to volumes and
installs.
OK, so, again, like we've done before, we've got our link and then I'm going to go in and it's I've
already done it, but at any rate, so what we're going to do is we're going to download that zip file
to our 10 folder, extract it, delete it, just like we did with with Adam.
So go ahead and run it.
And there it is.
So when it comes to downloading and installing App Store apps, follow this procedure only when there
is no other way of downloading and installing an app.
So Microsoft remote desktop, for example, you used to be able to download it from Microsoft site.
But now the only way that you can install it is through the App Store.
And since it is free software, then you can go ahead and use this procedure to install this app.
You could use this to install other free apps like Firefox, as you've seen that the Firefox app comes
in a DMG and when you extract it, you do have access to the app, but copying the app to your website
just doesn't work.
So keeping it in the DMG is what we did because it's just easier.
But if you want to copy other apps that you have and you don't have installers for them, then you could
zip them up, put them on your website and install it to all your machines in that way.