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Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 12 ( Best Practices from Microsoft IT )

the below information is a bit old – from 2009 – but still the same concept apply By thoroughly evaluating and deploying an RMS server infrastructure and using the IRM client technology in Office Enterprise , Microsoft IT learned several Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 11 ( Reminders )

 DON’T use the NetBIOS name of the machine as the cluster URL. DO make a back-ups of your SLC and Publishing Certificate located in the ‘Trust Policies’ section of your RMS Admin UI, *immediately* after provisioning. There i Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 10 ( Exchange 2010 and RMS )

Change the pipeline security settings to allow exchange request certificate  On the exchange hub we run the following command (this command will add a system mailbox to the super user group ) Add-DistributionGroupMember RMSsuper -Member Feder Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 9 ( File Classification Infrastructure and RMS )

  What is the File Classification Infrastructure? The Windows Server 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) automates classification processes so that you can manage your data more effectively. You can save money and reduce risk by sto Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 8 ( Enable Super users and Creating Templates)

Next the super user Group The super group is the Master key for all your documents and must have a restricted access to this group (MAX four users ) as this users will have access to all the documents . also note that any member will be picked up af Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 7 ( Create a DFS Share)

this this post we will see how to create a distributed file system (DFS) so that our RMS templates will be always online Note: there is other methods to do this like DNS round robin and manually maintain the file share path on the RMS servers , or s Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 6 ( Create a Custom Template to Issue the Needed Certificate )

this post ill show you how to create a custom template in your internal CA and how to issue a certificate with alternative names so that I can be installed on all the needed servers   Please note this certificate will be used forInternal (in Read More...

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS ) : Part 5 ( Creating NLB )

in this post we will learn how to install and create network load balance cluster step by step Some NLB Key Terms ARP: Address Resolution Protocol. This is a TCP/IP protocol that resolves IP addresses used by TCP/IP-based software to media access co Read More...