The Operating System has two sets of Registry Keys for Driver Signing. Even with one disabled in Windows 2003 x64 (HKLM>Software>Microsoft>Driver Signing) there is a secondary key that can still leave Driver Signing Warnings set to enabled. This is by design, as per Microsoft's Knowledge Base article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298503).

 

Because of this, the GAB and LLT drivers (even though they are signed and even when running the SYMCCERT or Trusted Certificate option during installation) will still prompt a user warning.

To resolve this issue and allow for an unprompted installation, please perform the following steps:

- Verify there is not a Group Policy being pushed to the server which may overwrite settings

- Verify the user account operating the installation has Local Administrator priviliges, including installation of Signed / Unsigned Drivers

- Verify that under Control Panel > Settings> Hardware> Driver Signing, the option is set to Ignore

- Open the Registry Editor (Start > Run > Regedit)

- Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software > Microsoft 

- Highlight the Non Driver Signing key located here

- Change the value to be Zero (0)

- Restart installation and verify successful completion without Driver Signing Prompt.

 

 

When running a silent installation script, or performing a manual installation of Storage Foundation for Windows with High Availability 5.1 SP2 onto a Windows 2003 x64 server, Driver Signing warnings still prompt for user input, even with Driver Signing in Windows System Settings > Hardware > Driver Signing has already been set to ignore. This happens only with Windows 2003 x64 and SFW-HA 5.1 When installing SFW itself, or installing either SFW / SFW-HA on Windows 2008 or Windows 2003 x32, the issue does not take place.