Installation of .NET v4 from the official Microsoft download center may fail due to wrong certificate

Products

• CA Continuous Delivery Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

Affects Release version(s): 5;6;7;8

Error Message :
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An installation of .NET V4 from the official Microsoft download center may fail with a message about having the wrong certificate.

ARA requires that .NET 4 be installed on the IIS machine.

If .NET 4 is not already installed on the machine, you have to install it from the official Microsoft download site:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17718
 

The 'Standalone Installer/Offline Install' has a problem, when trying to install on a host machine without an Internet connection.

The error message during the installation complains about a certificate being wrong in the installer package.

Cause

Cause type:
Other
Root Cause: The Microsoft package contains an old (not valid) certificate in their installer package

Environment

OS Version: N/A

Resolution

This is a configuration issue for  .NET.

Download and use the following certificates:

http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/cspca.crl
http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/tspca.crl

Fix Status: No Fix

Fix Version(s):
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Additional Information

Workaround :
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