RMS: Protecting Your Assets.
The Protecting 'My' Asset Disclaimer: This is my 'un-official', 'in my spare time', 'use at your own risk', all things RMS (Rights Management Services), IRM (Information Rights Management), IPP (Information Protection Pla
Are you looking for the official source for all the latest news and tech tips for Microsoft AD RMS and Azure RMS?
Just an FYI that if you’re looking for the official source for all the latest news and tech tips for...
Date: 10/20/2014
Issues with RMS sharing app for iPhone and iPad on iOS 8 to be fixed soon [Updated]
[Update 10/14/2014 - We just released an updated app to the App Store (RMS sharing version 1.6) with...
Date: 09/25/2014
KB: Server Licensor Certificate Duration for Windows RMS Extended to 7150 Days
Just a quick FYI on a new Knowledge Base article we published today regarding the SLC for RMS....
Date: 06/05/2013
KB: Installing Active Directory Rights Management Services fails with error ID 204
Here’s a new KB we published on an issue where trying to install AD RMS fails with a 204 error. This...
Date: 01/09/2013
An Expired SLC in AD RMS?
In the world of technical support, issues seem to appear in clusters at times. I’ve just had a...
Date: 09/07/2012
Changing the RMS Service Account Password
I had someone ask me how to best update the AD RMS service account password. As we started mulling...
Date: 08/16/2012
Microsoft Rights Management Client Fix Information
UPDATE (08/15/12): The new and maintained home for this information is on our wiki, here: Microsoft...
Date: 08/06/2012
AD RMS Server Returns HTTP 500 (part 2)
I am seeing more ways to get an HTTP 500 error out of IIS… I do want to go on record and point out...
Date: 07/25/2012
AD RMS Server Returns IIS 500 Errors
I’ve seen a rash of these cases recently. It’s ranged from not being able to configure IRM...
Date: 06/13/2012
New Wiki Content–Removing Old RMS Servers
Out of nowhere I get three different sources asking me how to clean up old servers out of the RMS...
Date: 06/11/2012
End of the UDDI Service and Server Ramifications
This is from KB 2708963 Administrators receive a security warning and an error message when they try...
Date: 05/08/2012
AD RMS Wiki
I wanted to call out the AD RMS wiki that a lot of us are working on. There is some great content...
Date: 05/07/2012
RMS errors with XP IE7 and Office 2007
Our RMS brother from Germany, Uwe, had the following RMS encounter. He wanted to share it on the...
Date: 05/04/2012
A final word.
I've officially handed over this blog to Steve Light to make sure everyone is continuing to be...
Date: 05/03/2012
SharePoint 2010 and IRM Integration
This was a very odd corner case. It started with a problem configuring IRM integration on a...
Date: 05/02/2012
Testing, One, Two, Three…
Greetings! Jason, whose shoes I’ll never be able to fill, has graciously allowed me the use of this...
Date: 05/02/2012
This concludes our broadcast day. Goodnight.
Well it had to happen eventually. Yes, sadly I'm moving on from the world of RMS, and on to new...
Date: 02/20/2012
What's shiny, and new and smells like pumpkin pie?
Well if you happen to log onto connect, and download our new MSIPC and GFP bits...and are also...
Date: 11/22/2011
Another day...another poorly written script. Checking the MemberOf attribute.
OK. So I had the need to write a script that pulls the memberof attribute of a user. I needed this...
Date: 10/07/2011
New Version of IRMCheck now available.
You can get it here. IRMCheck Wow....I have no self-humoring comments to make? I guess its time to...
Date: 09/23/2011
More RMS survival tips and tricks from the mind of "The Uwe".
Thanks to Uwe Wizovsky, my German brother from another mother, for todays ADRMS survival tips. HiHo,...
Date: 08/24/2011
Your revocation has been revoked...sort of.
I recently had a call regarding revocation lists. My favorite topic because I really don’t get...
Date: 08/18/2011
Cross Forest SuperUsers - How it's done.
Heres the scenario: You have two forests we will call ForestA and ForestB.You have an RMS server in...
Date: 04/08/2011
Something special for Mac users. Get your IRM on in Office 2011 for Mac.
Finally. All you Mac users can IRM protect your Office content with Office 2011 for Mac. If you want...
Date: 11/12/2010
Office AdminTemplatePath GPO headache.
OK. I'm kind of tired of taking this call, so its time to blog on this one. You want to push a GPO...
Date: 10/20/2010
RMS Templates named in GUID naming convention instead of a friendly naming convention.
You've created RMS templates. You've dumped them to the drive to distribute. You look at the...
Date: 09/21/2010
Why is my blog so ugly now?
Apparently we moved from wherever we were, to wherever we are now, and now I've got alot of work to...
Date: 06/04/2010
A MOSS by any other name is not the same.
OK. I've seen this question asked enough that it warranted a blog post. Sharepoint has many...
Date: 05/14/2010
Performance issues with ADRMS talking to SQL 2008 Server.. by "The Uwe"
This message is brought to you by my friend Uwe Wizovsky from our Microsoft Germany site: Hi...
Date: 04/01/2010
New RMS Update. Get it. Love it. Live it.
An update for RMS has been released. https://support.microsoft.com/kb/979099 Please read this...
Date: 02/10/2010
Tool to determine the validity dates of your application manifests.
As I'm sure many of the people subscribed to this blog have realized, it is important to be able to...
Date: 12/17/2009
Cannot Open Office 2003 Documents Protected with RMS
================================================= UPDATE: The following patches are available to...
Date: 12/11/2009
Passport users may no longer be able to open RMS protected content from Enterprise RMS installations.
Ok. So it appears all kinds of funkiness with the passport service has caused problems with any...
Date: 12/08/2009
New videos available around ADRMS
Hey check it out. Apparently we released some new videos surrounding ADRMS:...
Date: 12/03/2009
Passport RMS Service Experiencing Technical Difficulties
UPDATE: 12/2/2009 - Patch is applied. Everything should be back to normal. The Microsoft PG worked...
Date: 11/25/2009
Learning about ADRMS. Finally....
I know it was about a year ago, I promised that I would put up some training materials for ADRMS....
Date: 10/30/2009
Free Bulk Protection Tool - Get it while it's hot.
Congratulations to the bulk protection tool team for getting this tool delivered ahead of schedule....
Date: 10/30/2009
Managing your ADRMS database
For all those interested in best practices for ADRMS Performance and Logging, check out this technet...
Date: 10/26/2009
Nothing to do with RMS - Protect your home machines.
For anyone that didn't know Microsft has released a free Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware/Malware...
Date: 10/21/2009
Obama Say's: Cyber Security is top Priority. Cyber Czar TBA.
So....it appears that President Obama has been reading my blog... O.K. I made that part up, but it...
Date: 05/29/2009
Daily Wacky Environment Solution: One-Way trust AND ADRMS using ADFS
Consider this scenario.Customer has two forests. Resource Forest (RFCOM) - Houses resources like RMS...
Date: 05/28/2009
To CRL or not to CRL. That is the question.
I recently got a call from a customer having problems opening content from the internet using the...
Date: 05/22/2009
Foxit makes their reader more foxy with IRM capabilities.
Welcome to the party Foxit!!! https://www.foxitsoftware.com/announcements/2009487743.html...
Date: 05/20/2009
What is the RMS Lifecycle?
Ever wonder when support for your version of RMS will officially end? Well we all know that RMS V1...
Date: 05/08/2009
Single Forest, Single Domain seeks NON-Universal group to share many bytes of RMS data with
O.K. So I get asked this question a lot. "I've got one forest with a single domain. Do I still need...
Date: 05/08/2009