Windows 1O IOT Core Dashboard not installing - Security issue

If you're starting on your journey with IOT and you choose the Windows platform for it (it's probably not a bad idea, MS is investing heavily in this space), you'll probably want to use the Windows 10 IOT Core Dasbhoard. This gives you access to local development, Images for dfferent hardware archotecutres, SD card flashing and generally checking on IOT devices on your local network. However, you might run into a problem trying to installed it.

Sadly, they (MS) have chosen to use Click Once installer for the the install but Windows 10 current prevent you from installing the package which was sourced from the Internet. As a result you'll probably get a screen like this:

It is caused by "Click Once Trust Prompt Behavior" for security reasons. You won't want to be installed unsign and untrusted packages from the net. This behaviour is is described in detail here and is expected.

To fix this and to install the Dashboard, you need to edit Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\ .NETFramework\Security\TrustManager\PromptingLevel\Internet and change it to "Enabled" for now.

To do this press Win + R on your keyboard (to get the Run dialog, see below), type in regedit.exe (or launch regedit.exe some other way) and press ok. Navigate to the above path and change the value.

Now install the Dashboard by clicking on the setup.exe you first tried to install and you should be propmted to installed this time around.

When the installed is complete I would suggest you undo the above changes so you're given the same protections you had before.

Happy IOTing!