AXUTIL is an utility provided by Microsoft to generate the license for ISV solutions. In 2023 there was a change across the globe that providing PFX file containing the certificate and key is a security threat and hence the providers stopped providing PFX file. Instead, they started by uploading the certificate and private key in to Azure Key Vault, to be safest and with no options to export the file.

License generation Azure pipelines created to pass the pfx file started failing once the pfx file validity was expired. This has caused a major problem as the Azure Key vault integration with AXUTIL has not been incorporated. Now ISV solution can not generate the license as AXUTIL was never designed / nor updated to access from Azure Key Vault and expects PFX file which is not available to pass that to AXUTIL. This is a dead lock situation.