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 certificate is missing (which it will be if it's 
not been asked to check before) Windows downloads it from Microsoft. If 
it can't, verification fails and so does the installation.

What I'm wondering is if this is only something likely to happen on test 
systems - in production is there some other way Windows is likely to 
have the updated certificates? Or, should I remove the signature on the 
installer and MSI file to avoid this problem?  Or is there a way to ask 
Burn to skip the verification step?

-- 
Bruce Cran

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