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IFS Cloud's Excel Add-in fails to connect with 'Content blocked because it was not signed by a valid security certificate,' even though the manifest and permission set both appear to be configured correctly.

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This is typically a TLS/certificate trust issue, not an Add-in configuration problem — check whether the IFS Cloud environment is using a certificate signed by a trusted public/enterprise Certificate Authority, or a self-signed certificate; Office's Add-in security model blocks content from an endpoint whose certificate isn't trusted by the client machine, which is exactly the 'not signed by a valid security certificate' message. Switching the environment to a properly CA-signed certificate (or ensuring the self-signed certificate is explicitly trusted on the client machines running Excel) resolves this class of error.

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