Re: [WiX-users] Burn, signature verification and failure on Vista

2013-08-28 Thread Phill Hogland
I cannot comment on Wix tools, but in general we have received many complaints from folks who install a third-party .Net 2.0 application, which we distribute, on networks which are locked down with no external access to an Authenticode certificate server. Form what I have read such a network shoul

Re: [WiX-users] Burn, signature verification and failure on Vista

2013-08-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Often this on test VM machines but I suppose unmanaged machines not connected to the internet would hit it. Basically, you need to be connected to the internet occasionally to participate in security since security changes over time (that which was safe may become unsafe). Or so those that designe

[WiX-users] Burn, signature verification and failure on Vista

2013-08-27 Thread Bruce Cran
I recently discovered the certificate auto-download feature in Vista/2008 when I found that our installer (which uses Burn) fails due to an authenticode verification error when the machine isn't connected to the Internet. It seems that when Burn asks Windows to check the signature, if the root