Celeb Glow
general | March 07, 2026

Windows 7 root certificate updates

I work for a company that uses Windows 7 for end user computing. The Windows 7 computers are updated via a WSUS installation, and access to Microsoft Update is blocked.

We have a problem with a number of websites, who's certificates appears to be invalid, though they are perfectly ok. The problem is, that Windows 7 apparently does an on-demand update of root certificates through Windows Update, rather than rolling out a monthly update, as with Windows XP.

Now that Windows Update is blocked, how should root certificates be updated? It appears that WSUS is not handling this feature.

Thanks in advance.

1 Answer

Try to manually update the root certificates.

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