Access 2007 security warning...

[Adrian Brown]

Hi,
Does anyone know how to stop the security warning on a packaged access
2007 database. I create and sign the database but it still seems to appear.
Is the only way to purchase a signature off someone like thwate?

Adrian

 

[Paul Shapiro]

If you used the self-signing certificate that comes with Office, that's only
accepted on your own computer. The only solution I found was buying a
code-signing certificate.

If you are part of a Windows domain that includes a Certificate Server, you
can probably generate the code-signing certificate there (for free). Then
your users would have to trust your domain's certificate. If the domain has
an external certificate chain leading to a trusted root authority, your
domain cert would automatically be trusted. If it's self-generated at the
top level, your users would have to import the cert and choose to trust it.
But that's a one-time operation. After the cert is imported as trusted, your
signed db should no longer generate the prompt.

 

[Adrian Brown]

Seems a little harsh that i need to spend something like $300 a year to be
able to write small utilities for people that are easy to use.

Adrian

 

[Tom van Stiphout]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:19:21 -0000, "Adrian Brown"

I'm under the impression that this requirement of code signing has
been changed with A2007. You may want to read up on that. Isn't the
"Trust Center" taking over some of these responsibilities?

-Tom.