title: Possible to remotely update Windows 10 IOT Core App without Azure or Windows Store?
body: <p>I am in the process of finishing up a Windows 10 IOT Core app to be deployed on Raspberry Pi 3 devices for a single location beta test. The app is consumer facing and reads from a sensor so I am sure there are going to be at least 1 or 2 updates per week as we perfect the app. Everything I am reading says you can only achieve app updates from Windows Device Portal, Windows Store, or Azure.</p>
  
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  <li>Windows Device Portal works fine for local management/deployment right now but won't work remotely because the devices will eventually be installed all throughout the country behind different firewalls, etc. We don't want to have to keep up with customer firewall port forwarding.</li>
  <li>Windows Store probably won't work because we don't want to have to wait for up to 48 hours for update approvals. Also not sure if Windows 10 IOT fully supports Windows Store yet.</li>
  <li>I have not figured out how Azure IOT Hub manages app updates but I would really like to avoid having to use Azure if possible since we prefer to keep everything on our own servers and not pay cloud providers for stuff we can do on our own servers.</li>
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  <p>Has anyone figure out how to run a background service to download an app update and apply it? </p>
  
  <p>I am just going to have to deal with Azure IOT Hub?</p>