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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET
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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET

by Jeff Webb, Steve Saunders
April 2006
Beginner
1114 pages
98h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Distribute Certificates

If you set macro security settings to Very High, Excel will not prompt the user to install certificates from new publishers. The only way the user can run those macros is to lower the security, reload the document, and select “Always trust macros from this publisher.” If you are using the Very High security setting, you probably don’t want users lowering it, installing certificates, then (maybe) raising it again.

To avoid this problem, you can distribute the certificates from trusted publishers beforehand using the Certificate Manager (CertMgr.exe). The Certificate Manager is available for download from Microsoft (see "Resources" at the end of this chapter) and comes with other certificate-related tools such as SignCode.exe.

To use the Certificate Manager to distribute certificates from trusted publishers:

  1. Set up a computer with the certificates you want to distribute.

  2. Run the Certificate Manager (Figure 26-23) and export the desired certificates without their private keys. The Certificate Manager provides a wizard to walk you through the export process.

  3. Use the resulting certificate files (.cer or .p7b) with the command-line interface of the Certificate Manager to install those certificates on client machines.

Use the Certificate Manager to export and import certificates from trusted publishers

Figure 26-23. Use the Certificate Manager to export and import certificates from trusted publishers

Alternately, you can manage certificates using the Microsoft ...

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