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rob_wheadon
Level 4
‎Feb 24, 2008 10:26 PM

Error Digitally Signing an Install Package

Hello,

I have created an installer and I want it to work on Vista. The installer runs in Administrator mode but it displays the message

"An unidentified program wants to access your computer"

I understand that you need to digitally sign the install package to make this error go away.

I created a certificate .pfx file using makecert but when I try to build my install package I get:

Started signing certificate.msi ...
Successfully signed and timestamped: certificate.msi
ISDEV : error -6259: Internal build error

What is going on here? I don't have any files called certificate.msi? So what is InstallShield trying to do?

Thanks,

Robert
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MichaelU
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‎Feb 26, 2008 09:09 AM

InstallShield is signing a temporary msi file so it can populate the MsiDigitalCertificate and MsiPatchCertificate tables to enable elevation-free patching. I'm not sure what is going wrong that you get just the raw internal 6259 error; do you have at least MSI 2.0 on that machine, and plenty of free disk space for your build?
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