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Where have all the IRM templates gone for the XPS viewer?

  • Artigo

You may or may not have noticed when protecting XPS documents, that the usual list of RMS templates under the File>Permissions section is missing, even though you can see the templates in your other Office applications.

Just like the Office applications, the XPS viewer requires that you set a registry key in order to display the templates.

Here is that key:

Key: HKCU/Software/Microsoft/XPSViewer/Common/DRM
Reg_Sz: AdminTemplatePath
Value: <path to templates>

 BTW: This may only apply to the XPSViewer for Vista. I need to check.

Update: I checked this on XP, and you in fact can *only* use a Reg_Sz value, which means you can't use environment variables.

-Jason

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Read the post again. I updated it with new info. Unlike Office, the XPSViewer has no way to handle anything besides Reg_SZ values, which means you can't use %environmentvariables% -Jason

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I too can't get this to work on Vista. Regmon shows XPSViewer.exe successfully querying the key/value created as per Jason's post above, but after it reads the admintemplatepath value, it never queries that directory for the XML-based template files. I've tried both a UNC path (to the RMS server template share) and also to a local path (C:temp, where I copied the template file), but XPSViewer never queries the directory. Has anyone ever gotten this to work?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I've been digging all over the internet looking for a way to get XPS Viewer to pickup the templates used by the other office applications.  I was thrilled to finally find your blog.   Unfortunately the solution is not working for me (on xpsp2). I created the key as outlined but no templates were picked up.  I thought perhaps it wasn't expanding the environment variable so I then renamed the old key and created a key of type REG_EXPAND_SZ, this crashes the viewer when you click on the permissions button (apparently it lacks security permissions to expand the environment variable in ie7).  I reverted ack to the REG_MULTI_SZ string and gave the full path to the templates.  Still no luck. Any ideas?

  • Anonymous
    August 10, 2010
    I tried to figure out how to push this out with group policy on Windows 7, but I'm having no luck so far. Any suggestions? Would it be supported as a REG_MULTI_SZ on Windows 7 so it can work with the Windows 7 scheduled tasks to pull down templates?

  • Anonymous
    August 10, 2010
    Sorry, I meant would it be supported as a REG_EXPAND_SZ to go with the task... (Even if I set it manually, I can't get it to work as a REG_EXPAND_SZ, so I'm guessing the answer to that is no.)

  • Anonymous
    September 08, 2015
    i don't know about old information's, but you can use environment variables as mention below site, create registry key with REG_EXPAND_SZ ( instead of update, select to create ) and give environment variable data for value
    (%LocalAppData%MicrosoftDRMTemplates)
    https://stevenjwkennedy.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/ad-rms-client-side/
    for me it's working,