Re: certificate expired - vba macros now disabled - 50 documents...

Re: certificate expired - vba macros now disabled - 50 documents...

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Re: certificate expired - vba macros now disabled - 50 documents... Eduard Koller [MSFT] 05-27-2005
Posted by Eduard Koller [MSFT] on May 27, 2005, 12:53 am
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What certificate expired? Did you try to renew the certificate?

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> 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
>



Posted by Brian Komar on May 28, 2005, 6:47 pm
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eduardk@online.microsoft.com says...
> What certificate expired? Did you try to renew the certificate?
>
>
You cannot renew an expired certificate, you have to perform the renewal
before the prior certificate expires. You still can request a new
certificate in the current situation.

You will have to re-sign the VB Macros to get them trusted again. There
is no way to re-enable the trust. The other option would have been to
time-stamp the signatures with a time-stamping server. This would have
made the signature validity determined by the time-stamping service
date.

Brian
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