One of the great features of Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) is rights-policy templates. A template is something that an AD RMS administrator designs that provides a set of users, and/or groups, with a predefined set of rights. These...

The AD RMS team has recently published new content that summarizes the required and optional AD DS user and computer objects for an AD RMS implementation. The following abstract provides some details: Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD...

The AD RMS team has recently published new content that details best practices for properly scaling and managing your AD RMS infrastructure. The following abstract details the contents of this documentation: Here we describe the scaling scheme for...

The AD RMS team has recently published new documentation that discuss best practices for managing your AD RMS client deployment. The following abstract provides some details about the content: Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) is...

Bhushan Nene and Trent Swanson, architects on our Global Partner team, recently published a white paper that can give you insight into building applications that use AD RMS information rights management technology. The following abstract details the...

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[ Note - This post assumes the reader is familiar with terms such as issuance license , rights-policy templates , and AD RMS trust policies (federated trust). In summary, an issuance license represents the usage policy for a piece of content and contains...

[ Note: This post assumes the reader is already familiar with terms such as issuance license , use-license , rights account certificate (RAC) and client licensor certificate (CLC) . In summary, an issuance license represents the usage policy for a piece...