Group Policy: Only allow signed Add-Ins or How to properly sign an Office Solution

We are planning the Group Policies to set for the deployment of Office 365 ProPlus. Since we would like to increase security, I want to set the Option to only allow Addins signed by trusted publishers. My problem is, that I cannot get it to work properly.

I have a Document Level Customization (namely an Excel-Template created with Visual Studio and some functionality) that is deployed by ClickOnce. The solution is both signed in the ClickOnce Manifest and has a strong name with another certificate.

I put the corresponding certificates in the trusted root certification authorities and everything is fine as long as I use a standard Installation of Office 365 with no settings:

When I open the deployed file Office tells me about the risk and I can install - I do not get a warning about the certificate not being trusted (I got this warning as expected until I put the certificates in the store)

If I activate the Group Policy for Excel 2013 to only allow Addins signed by trusted publishers, Excel tells me, that it cannot install the solution because it was signed with a certificate that is not trusted.

What am I missing?

February 11th, 2015 11:34am

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