On-The-Fly Web Install Re-branding License
The re-branding license allows you to sign the cab file with your own branding and company information. After purchasing the deployment license with the re-branding right, you will receive an unsigned cab file to be signed by yourself.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do we need this signed cab file necessarily?
Where to get the code signing certificate
How to sign the cab file
Do we need this signed cab file necessarily
The signed cab is for security reason. Unless the IE security setting is set to LOW, IE will not load any unsigned cab file.
Where to get the code signing certificate
You can purchase the code signing certificate (Microsoft Authenticode Digital ID) from
Verisign (http://www.verisign.com/products/signing/index.html),
Thawte (http://www.thawte.com/ssl-digital-certificates/code-signing/index.html),
Comodo (http://www.instantssl.com/code-signing/code-signing-process.html),
or other certificate authority (CA) vendors.
In conjunction with Microsoft's Authenticode technology, this enables you to digitally sign .cab, .dll, .ocx, and .exe files.
How to sign the cab file
After you purchase the certificate from CA, they will send you the email with instruction for how to use the certificate. Following their instruction, you will download
mycredentials.spc
myprivatekey.pvk
to your floppy or hard drive.
You also need to download the code signing SDK from Microsoft (this zip file http://www.hexatech.com/support/web_install/codesign_sdk.zip also contains the SDK).
install_cab_sign.bat (contained in the zip file)
is the sample DOS batch file we use to sign
Install.cab with Verisign or Thawte certificate. The content of the .bat file is:
signcode -n "On-The-Fly Web Install" -i http://www.hexatech.com -spc a:mycredentials.spc -v a:myprivatekey.pvk -t http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll Install.cab