RE: Digital certificate issue

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Hello Herb,

The self-signed certificate is just for test purpose and may expire in a
few days even it is installed properly. You may want to get a certificate
from commerical CA or you may want to install CA in your own domain.

Also, this certificate is not valid to be exported to use a digi-sign
certificate because its private key is not able to be exported. Therefore,
when you import the certificate on a different machine, you cannot import
the private key. As you know, the private key is actually used to sign the
VBA project code. Therefore, it's normal that you encounter issues when
trying to sign code by using the imported certificate.

If you don't want to manage/install your own CA in your domain, you could
get certificate from commerical CA such as Verisign. If you only want to
test, you might be able to get a free test certificate from them.

Microsoft Root Certificate Program Members
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995347.aspx

Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Certification
Authority
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998956.aspx

Public Key Infrastructure
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/32aacfe8-83af-4676-a4
5c-75483545a9781033.mspx

As for the security cautuion message to open the application, can you
describe it more details? How do you open the MDB file? Do you open it from
UNC from remote folder?

You may want to set macro security to low to see if this could work around
the security warning:

Tools->Macro->Security

I understand that your frustration for this issue. The security warning is
just for security purpose. You need to notice the security risk if you set
the security to low for macro.

Please let me know if you have any update or comments, thank you.

Best Regards,

Peter Yang
MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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