Installing applications on HoloLens

After you have set up your devices for the enterprise, the next step is to install and distribute holographic applications onto those devices. As these target devices are enterprise devices, there are now multiple options to install or push applications to these devices. The simplest way is to use Windows Device Portal, as you have seen earlier in this book. The other way to install an application is to use Microsoft Store for Business.

Device Portal for application deployment

To deploy an application using Device Portal, the first thing you should have is an application package and all its dependencies packages. If you have packages, perform the following steps:

1. Start Device Portal.
2. Navigate to the Apps tab within Device Portal.
3. Within the Install App section, click on the Browse button under the App package subsection.
4. Select application package from the network path.
5. Also add dependency packages if there are any.
6. Click on Go; this will install the application...