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IMPORTANT: All Partners must reassociate their signing certificates!

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kevintremblay
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Sep 21, 2021
We recently made some changes to Partner Center for Windows Hardware. As a result of these changes, all participants in the hardware program are required to reassociate their valid signing certificat...
Updated Sep 21, 2021
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red-ray
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Sep 27, 2021

I have uploaded a new certificate which is reported as:

 

Certificate list
Name               Thumbprint                                                                   Type         Expiration date Validated Date       Issuer Name Status Action
RH Software Ltd3AD34BFD2DAFF23F5C2B751501863D740B6AF6D5CodeSign1/28/202309/27/2021 10:38:26ZCN=COMODO RSA Extended Validation Code Signing CA, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GBActive
https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/dashboard/Account/ManageCertificates#

 

But I am still unable to WHQL sign my driver and then I try I get:

 

  • Unfortunately there is no valid EV certificate associated with your account. To make submissions to the Hardware Dev Center, your account needs to be verified with at least one EV certificate upload. You can upload a new certificate http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=829460 and read more about this policy http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=829459.

All was great when I signed my driver on 16-Sep-2021, what needs to happen to make things start working again please?