Enterprise Deployment certificate and profiles

Question

I\'m currently using iOS Developer Enterprise Program for Enterprise Deployment. I want to know what happen when the Certificate and/or the Provisioning profile expire. For

Answer 1

If you let either your Enterprise Distribution Certificate or the associated Provisioning Profiles expire your apps will no longer load. The user will see the app start to load followed by an immediate crash. You have to renew your Enterprise Dist Cert every 3 years (you can have two concurrent / overlapping certs) and your Prov Profiles every year.

Seeing how the Provisioning Profile is the "weak link" in the chain at a yearly renewal what we do is refresh/renew our Enterprise Dist Prov Profiles every 9 months (at a minimum) to keep those suckers fresh. Likewise we renew our overlapped Enterprise Dist Cert no later than 9 months prior to the other Enterprise Dist Cert's expiration AND update the Dis Prov Profiles at the same time.

Answering your question more directly I wouldn't risk killing the Provisioning Profile and tanking your deployed app. Since you're renewing that guy yearly, re-baseline everyone at the same time to restart the clock.