Hello, I have created one application in MFC with VC and created setup using visual studio 2010 deployment project. It create the.exe and.msi file.

I have purchased the digital code sign certificate and sign the setup.exe file. What is my scenrio is.msi file is on my server location and I have set the 'Install URL' property of deployment project with.msi URL.

Now what is my issue is when I run the setup.exe file it download the.msi file and going to install it. But before install it show the popup with following message: 'The publisher cound not be verified. Are oyu sure you want to run this software?

' Name: myapplication.msi Publisher: Unknown publisher so can anybody help me how to set publisher? I have purchaed the code sign digital certificate. But not sure how to sign.msi file with that. Please help me on this. Thanks in advance. Nobody can help you to set a publisher which can be verified unless you address to some certificate authority:.

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This will cost money though. Most likely, you used self-signed certificate. This is fine if it is used by some person who knows you (for example, a member of your development team) and who received a public key or public key token independently from you. Then you have a reliable way to confirm that the MSI is signed by you and not by some malicious artist, because only you posses the private key you obtained while creating the certificate. This is the whole idea. This is not the case if the user of MSI is the regular uses. For such person, both you and some malicious artist who could spoof you Web site (for example) could equally be an original author.

For that reason, the system of certificate chains has been created. See also: , ,. Thanks for providing useful link. I tried that link and able to sign the.exe and msi file. I can check the files proprties and see the digital signature tab there.

Now just want to clear one thing is that this will not work for my self signed certificate, right? I am doing all testing in my local only with the my own test certificate. And in IIS created one default website and put the.msi file there. All is in my local so it should display valid publisher but it still not display it.

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So I think it may be not working for test certificate but it should work with my real certificate. When answering a question please:. Read the question carefully. Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.

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