To developers of Microsoft Remote Desktop for MacOS: Please stop annoying users with prompt 'The certificate couldn't be verified back to a root certificate. Your connection may not be secure. Do you want to continue?'

Christopher Peñalver 1 Reputation point
2022-07-17T17:40:03.817+00:00

To Developers of Microsoft Remote Desktop for MacOS:

Please stop annoying users with prompt 'The certificate couldn't be verified back to a root certificate. Your connection may not be secure. Do you want to continue?'

IIRC, the issue isn't reproducible with the Remote Desktop Connection client for Windows, as this has a feature that saves the user preference to not keep checking that exact certificate, or, alternatively, never check certificate authenticity.

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  1. Andrey Darvin 5 Reputation points
    2023-09-01T17:38:45.5833333+00:00

    While you see certificate error, you should press "Show Certificate" and then "Always trust when connecting to "your_remote_pc"

    Then you won't see certificate error prompt again.

    Screenshot 2023-09-01 at 20.34.23

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