Legal Business Profile Verification

Dear Microsoft Support Team,

our company assembles large amounts of various industrial computer product lines, which we equip with our self-developed PCIe cards. We are currently in the process of upgrading those product lines from Windows 7 embedded standard to Windows 11. This means we fall under the more strict driver signature enforcement rules, introduced with Windows 10 version 1607.

We currently try to get our Windows Kernel Drivers signed via the Windows Hardware Developer Center Dashboard. We enrolled our company as a Hardware Developer in the Microsoft Partner Center and, since I am responsible for our Windows Kernel Drivers, I finished the Identity Verification.

What we are now waiting for is the Employment Verification and the Business Verification. Then we can hopefully get my account ready for the Attestation Signing process, which, in turn, optimistically might not take too long(?).

It says that for the Employment Verification, a Microsoft Action is pending and it originally stated that this might take up to one week. This week is now over, but nothing changed expect the estimated date by when it shall be finished. This date seems to be automatically increased every day. At the 20th it stated that it is estimated to be finished at the 25th. Today it is estimated to be finished at the 29th.

We bought the Windows 11 volume licenses. We bought the EV code signing certificate. The kernel driver is well-tested. I have everything up and running in the TESTSIGNING mode. The only thing we lack is this attestation signing.

We are in dire need of shipping these products asap. Is there any possibility to pay for a priority handling or any other way to speed up the whole process?

Thank you.

with best regards,

Michael