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I recently had a support case I opened with Microsoft and their support also initially said that my reported behaviour was "normal" so should be expected. Turns
by jonathanlydall 5y ago
I recently had a support case I opened with Microsoft and their support also initially said that my reported behaviour was "normal" so should be expected. Turns out they had just reproduced the behaviour on their side and assumed it was "intended".
I guess in most cases Microsoft Support just responds with whether or not you are using their products as intended and are observing the expected behaviour, with expected behaviour actually being what the observed behaviour is when they try on their side. Unless there is some actual error, they don't seem to apply much initiative in deciding whether or not the observed behaviour actually makes sense.
To their credit for my case, when I pointed out that given a slightly (but not very) different scenario my behaviour was actually unusual, they then tried to work to report it to the development team.
My issue was that when I imported a code-signing certificate into Key Vault HSM with a particular algorithm, most fields would show up blank in the Portal UI. When I was unable to succesfully use the certificate to code sign our software, I assumed something went wrong with the import somehow, hence the certificate details not showing correctly. Importing certificate with a different algorithm would show the details, so it's something about the way that Key Vault/Portal UI handles that algorithm.
Ultimately it turned out that the problem was that the algorithm was actually unsupported by the code signing tool (it was my first time doing setting up EV code signing), but as I pointed out to the support agent, were it not for the problem on the UI, I wouldn't have assumed a potential problem with the way the the certificate was imported.
Frustratingly I only chose that algorithm initially because it was advised by a "helpful" person in a Github issue for the code signing tool I was using. I later saw that that same person within hours commented in another issue that although Azure Key Vault supports the new algorithm, the tool doesn't work with it, but they didn't respond back in my issue that what they suggested to me won't actually work.