A couple of days ago I had to deal with a situation where our vulnerability tool was complaining that the root certificate store wasn’t updated for a while. This process runs every 7 days, so it takes some time before you will notice any error messages, as was in my case. After doing some research it turned out that the update service for the Microsoft root certificate program was blocked. That in turn triggered me to dig into the more technical side of the Microsoft Root certificate program.

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