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The best tutorial in the world...EVER...on ADRMS logging
Peter Gilson, a member of the AD RMS product team, recently made an AD RMS Logging Tutorial video...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 01/12/2010
Article o' the Month - 150,000 people notified after National Archives and Records Administration hard-drive loss
I think this article shows the importance of having a good strategy for data-loss prevention: The...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 01/11/2010
Microsoft Office 2003 Cannot Open Documents Protected with AD RMS
The issue of the inability to open AD RMS protected documents with Microsoft Office 2003 has been...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 12/30/2009
Kim Cameron discusses OpenID Prototype
I enjoy reading Kim Cameron's blog. He has an interesting discussion of the use of identity "cards"...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 11/20/2009
Protecting a Word Document with AD RMS
I'm making a few short videos for the Windows Server 2008 "How Do I?" site. They are specifically...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 11/09/2009
Integrate Information Rights Management into Windows SharePoint Services ( WSS ) 3.0
I thought this was a really interesting and detailed article: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 10/30/2009
How Do I Share Protected Documents with People Outside my Organization?
GigaTrust's (a Microsoft partner) Enterprise Trust solution has a nice feature for doing that:...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 10/27/2009
AD RMS in the Press
AD RMS was recently highlighted in an article on the Softpedia Website. The article discusses some...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 10/26/2009
AD RMS Support for BlackBerry Smartphones
Liquid Machines Extends Its Industry-Leading Support of BlackBerry Smartphones for Microsoft Active...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 10/23/2009
Security Software Market Growth Continues
I found the following article on Information Week, Security Software Market Remains Strong, to be...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 10/08/2009
Information Protection Features in Exchange 2010
Exchange 2010 contains some new features that make use of AD RMS technology. Exchange's Information...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 10/06/2009
New Content: Deploying Active Directory Rights Management Services at Microsoft
Since the worldwide implementation of AD RMS at Microsoft, each day, an average of approximately...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 09/23/2009
Notes: Provisioning AD RMS on Windows Server 2003
I recently provisioned AD RMS on WS 2003 R2 and I made a few notes as I ran into issues. Perhaps...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 09/01/2009
Launch of the New AD RMS TechCenter
On TechNet, we've recently launched the AD RMS server role site on the Windows Server TechCenter....
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 08/21/2009
New Content: AD RMS Architecture Design and Secure Collaboration Scenarios
Enrique Saggese, a senior consultant on the AD RMS team, recently wrote a new topic entitled AD RMS...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 07/17/2009
Article o' the week - Facebook won't commit to Canada's privacy watchdog recommendations yet
It's interesting to watch how social networking complicates information protection. This article...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 07/16/2009
Chinese Government's Green Dam Software
Kim Cameron has some interesting discussion of the software here and here. The following is a...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 07/07/2009
New Content: AD RMS Performance and Logging Best Practices
Two senior consultants on the AD RMS team, Enrique Saggese and Kiyoshi Watanabe, recently wrote some...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 06/29/2009
Making the Case for AD RMS
I recently ran across this short blog post by Ragnar Harper and I thought it was interesting enough...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 06/16/2009
Article 'o the Week - Exchange 2010 and AD RMS
This article outlines some of the features in the new version of Exchange. There is also a brief...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 05/29/2009
Article o' the Week - Geneva
There is discussion here about some of Microsoft's plans for Geneva, disclosed at Tech Ed this week...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 05/15/2009
Tech Ed
Are you planning to go to Tech Ed? Read the post about it on the AD RMS team blog.
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 05/08/2009
RSA Security Conference
I had a great time attending the RSA Security Conference last week. Downtown San Francisco is always...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 05/01/2009
Identity and Access Article o' the Week - Microsoft discloses ambitious security strategy
Here is the article from NETWORKWORLD about Microsoft's strategy for the Forefront brand. Microsoft...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 04/27/2009
IDA article o' the week - Comparing and Contrasting AD RMS and S/MIME
I thought this article was a helpful discussion of the two technologies, particularly how their...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 04/06/2009
Debugging the AD RMS Samples
Lately I’ve been running the AD RMS sample projects, included with the Windows SDK, and watching the...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 04/01/2009
IDA Article o' the Week - Donut Shop Reviews
A court recently ruled that web sites do not have to release the identities of anonymous comment...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 03/24/2009
IDA article o' the Week: Networks to become increasingly identity aware
This article is based on a Gartner study on network security. For large enterprises, the trend over...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 03/12/2009
Public Notice
End of support for Windows Rights Management Services V1.0 March 23, 2009 will bring a close to...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 03/10/2009
IDA article o' the Week: Regulating the Coffee-House Wireless Service
This article caught my attention this morning: Bill takes aim at anonymous hot spots -- like the...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 03/06/2009
Tip 'o the Day - Creating an Application Manifest
I've been running through the steps to set up a pre-production environment for AD RMS. Yesterday I...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 02/18/2009
UserActivation Sample for AD RMS
Jason Tyler, the customer support guy for AD RMS, helped me troubleshoot an issue I was having today...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 02/16/2009
Machine Activation for AD RMS
I was just running through the steps for setting up an AD RMS development environment and I was on...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 02/13/2009
Identity Services in the Cloud
This article discusses Microsoft's plans for its identity platform (Geneva) and some of the plans...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 02/09/2009
Active Directory - Rights Management Services Support and Troubleshooting
Protecting Your Assets is a great blog to reference as you are working with AD RMS. Jason Tyler does...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 02/05/2009
Information Protection Article o' the Week - Microsoft Study Finds Consumers Want Control Over Data
I ran across this article on the InformationWeek website. Microsoft did a survey to see how people...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 01/28/2009
Massachusetts Gets Tough on Data Security
This article is an interesting discussion of how Massachusetts has put in place some very strigent...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 01/21/2009
Identity and Security Conferences in 2009
The following are a couple upcoming conferences that include identity and security tracks and...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 01/07/2009
Microsoft's Partnership with EMC
Microsoft has announced a partnership with EMC to provide dynamic data classification for content,...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 01/02/2009
Watermarking
Through scuttlebutt at work I hear various discussions about watermarking and its place in the...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 12/04/2008
Economic Changes and Their Affect on Identity and Access Management
With the economy being the way it is, business are most likely going to be going through more churn...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 11/26/2008
Identity and Access Article o' the Week - Geneva
The Register, a media outlet in the U.K., has a interesting story about Geneva, Microsoft's new...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 11/18/2008
Forefront Demo
Here is a demo that shows some of the features for Stirling. It’s about 10 minutes long. Stirling is...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 11/13/2008
DebugView
I came across this nice utility for monitoring debug output called DebugView (forgive me if I'm late...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 10/29/2008
Update on New Work
Lately I've been working on a new walkthrough document for the AD RMS Protectors for Office files...
Author: tonytrivi_MSFT Date: 10/09/2008