certificate expired - macros now disabled - 50 documents...

[Peter R.]

Hi Newsgroup,

we´ve signed a vba macro in a excel template. Based on theses templates 50
of our users created their own documents.

Now the certificate is expired and the macro only works when we set the
security to medium and manually accept the macros.

Is there another solution than resign the template and tell the users to
make new documents to get the macro-message away?


Best regards from germany,

Peter

 

[Dawn Crosier]

For the past two years, I have kept notes regarding when my self
certificate will expire and then went through all our templates a week
or so before they expired and re-signed them with a new certificate.
To avoid that process, what we ended up doing is purchasing a
certificate from Verisign. This cost us $400 US. It will need to be
renewed in one year. However, those templates that I have signed with
the new certificate will not expire as long as the code is not
modified. Only new templates will need to be signed, or those
templates where it is necessary to make coding changes will require
re-signing.

Therefore, I recommend that you look into something like that so that
you can re-sign your templates one more time, and then not have them
expire in the future.

--
Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
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[Peter R.]

Hi Dawn,

this sounds good. I think verisign is doing this with the timestamping
option, or?

Is there an possibility to enable timestamping with the microsoft ca-server?

We are still using office 2000 - does it work here also?

Best regards,

Peter

 

[Dawn Crosier]

Peter -

I could not figure out a way to enable timestamping with Microsoft's
ca-server, which is why we ended up going with Verisign. I could not
answer whether it would work with Office 2000 or not. However,
Verisign has an on-line chat associated with choosing their products,
so you could ask them yourself. Here is a link to the Code Signing
product that they offer.
http://www.verisign.com/products-se...e-signing/digital-ids-code-signing/index.html

Good Luck.

--
Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"

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[Peter R.]

Thank you for help!

Peter -

I could not figure out a way to enable timestamping with Microsoft's
ca-server, which is why we ended up going with Verisign. I could not
answer whether it would work with Office 2000 or not. However, Verisign
has an on-line chat associated with choosing their products, so you could
ask them yourself. Here is a link to the Code Signing product that they
offer.
http://www.verisign.com/products-se...e-signing/digital-ids-code-signing/index.html

Good Luck.

--
Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"

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