WMF 4 404 Not Found

[potatoqualitee]

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Links

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/windows-powershell/wmf/overview?view=powershell-7.2

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/description-of-wmf-4-0-for-windows-7-sp1-windows-embedded-standard-7-sp1-and-windows-server-2008-r2-sp1-e3c830c7-269a-8ae0-d7e9-5ab4a0c37484

Summary

I am looking for WMF 4.0 and cannot find it. I had to resort to https://web.archive.org/web/20190122054112if_/https://download.microsoft.com/download/3/D/6/3D61D262-8549-4769-A660-230B67E15B25/Windows6.1-KB2819745-x64-MultiPkg.msu per the closed issue #4233

People are recommending we download WMF 4 from random places, which seems more dangerous than a SHA-1 signed file https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/653866/where-is-download-for-windows-management-framework.html

Details

I'm hoping that opening this issue will resurface the importance of providing a valid link to WMF 4 so that the community doesn't have to resort to non-official sources.

Suggested Fix

Add back the link or create a new one with SHA-256 signed file.

[sdwheeler]

We can't restore the SHA-1 package and we have tried getting the package resigned with SHA-256.

[potatoqualitee]

Thanks for the follow up. Can I sign and redistribute it on my website?