Using Azure Trusted Signing for Windows App Installs (How to:)

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Having your users see this when they run your installer isn’t a great experience.

I was shopping around for applicable digital certificates and found the certificate industry had imploded. A lot of companies acquired others, kept the old websites going, with a variety of pricing and, some support that couldn’t really explain one product / server over the other.

I see that Mike D brought this up last year. I didn’t see that post originally but heard about it from our friends over at DuckDB and a tutorial on how to set it up.

They recommended a tutorial, which I followed through on - it was a little outdated, so I made a few notes on the particular pain points of using the most recent UI of Azure. But you know, it really works well! You can set up a Trusted Signing subscription for only $9.99 a month.

You can find my notes right here as well as links to the original tutorial.

Hope it helps!

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The verification process can be slow, but once verified, it’s absolutely the easiest way to get signing done these days. I’d recommend it over any alternative.

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Correct. It took me close to two weeks to get validated because they did not validate my LLC. Once I submitted a question on their forums, it was four days before they answered, and then we resolved it within a few hours! However, it is so much easier than dealing with Yubi keys and messing around.

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