anupmistry
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How to Sign Office 2007 plugin

Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:36 pm

What is the correct way to use Advanced Installer to digitally sign an Office 2007 Add-In. When installing the plugin we get the message 'Publisher cannot be verified'.

We have written an Office 2007 Add-In using Visual Studio 2010/.NET 3.5 SP1/VB.NET. The output that VS2010 creates (.vsto, .manifest, .dll) etc where included into the AI project as per the wizard. In the AI project we have setup the Digital Signature. We know the certificate is good as we regularly use that .pfx file to sign various exe's, dll's etc without any issues.

Bogdan
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Re: How to Sign Office 2007 plugin

Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:54 am

Hi,

Do you see the message about the unverified publisher in the UAC prompt that appears when you install the setup package generated by Advanced Installer?
Or after you install the package and start the Office app a new installer appears where you see this message? If the second is the problem then this dialog can be avoided as we explain in the following thread.

Regards,
Bogdan
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anupmistry
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Re: How to Sign Office 2007 plugin

Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:15 pm

Thanks. We were seeing the second problem (dialog when Outlook launches first time). Think we found our issue though. Pasting solution link here for anybody else who runs into the same issue >> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums ... f3b428ceef

Bogdan
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Re: How to Sign Office 2007 plugin

Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:39 pm

Thank you, I'm sure other users will find it useful.

Best regards,
Bogdan
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