RMS

Why is my blog so ugly now?

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:00:08 GMT

Apparently we moved from wherever we were, to wherever we are now, and now I've got alot of work to do. Hopefully we'll correct alot of this soon. -Jason...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

A MOSS by any other name is not the same.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:21:00 GMT

OK. I've seen this question asked enough that it warranted a blog post. Sharepoint has many different flavors. There is Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services (MOSS) - Enterprise - Not free, Windows Sharepoint Services - Free, and Sharepoint Foundation...(read more)

Performance issues with ADRMS talking to SQL 2008 Server.. by "The Uwe"

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:43:00 GMT

This message is brought to you by my friend Uwe Wizovsky from our Microsoft Germany site: Hi Everyone, I came across an issue with ADRMS having performance issues talking to a clustered SQL 2008 back-end database server. The client would randomly see...(read more)

Nothing but a grey screen shows when trying to activate your IRM Live ID

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:30:00 GMT

I had a customer call today that had several users trying to activate IRM using the LiveID/Passport Service. It would go through the regular UI, and then come to a grey screen and hang. I took a wild guess, and got a network trace to see if the UI was...(read more)

New RMS Update. Get it. Love it. Live it.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:30:00 GMT

An update for RMS has been released. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979099 Please read this article, and make sure you have automatic updates enabled. Also read through the article to find which OSs can be updated via Windows Update, and which OSs you...(read more)

The best tutorial in the world...EVER...on ADRMS logging.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:24:00 GMT

One of the RMS product group members, Peter Gilson, put together this ADRMS logging tutorial. I asked him if I could post it to my blog, and promised that I wouldn't pump it up, or make crazy unfounded claims about what is contained within this video...(read more)

Tool to determine the validity dates of your application manifests.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:02:00 GMT

As I'm sure many of the people subscribed to this blog have realized, it is important to be able to discover the validity dates in your application manifests to determine if and when a particular cert-chain will expire so you can take appropriate...(read more)

Cannot Open Office 2003 Documents Protected with RMS

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:04:00 GMT

================================================= UPDATE: The following patches are available to correct the issue noted below. For now you need to call support (1-800-936-4900) and reference one of the below KBs to obtain them, but it will be a no-charge...(read more)

Passport users may no longer be able to open RMS protected content from Enterprise RMS installations.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:43:00 GMT

Ok. So it appears all kinds of funkiness with the passport service has caused problems with any organization that has decided to trust Passport based RACs. So....in order to correct the problem, you will need to re-apply that trust to your RMS installation...(read more)

New videos available around ADRMS

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:19:00 GMT

Hey check it out. Apparently we released some new videos surrounding ADRMS: http://edge.technet.com/Tags/RMS/ Coolness! -Jason Read More......(read more)

Passport RMS Service Experiencing Technical Difficulties

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:55:00 GMT

UPDATE: 12/2/2009 - Patch is applied. Everything should be back to normal. The Microsoft PG worked through the holidays and everything on this to get it fixed and applied. This was a really quick turn-around given the complexity of the fix. Thanks for...(read more)

Learning about ADRMS. Finally....

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:01:00 GMT

I know it was about a year ago, I promised that I would put up some training materials for ADRMS. Well I will be teaching some support engineers at Microsoft about ADRMS, and how to support it. Part of this class (which will be available to customers...(read more)

Free Bulk Protection Tool - Get it while it's hot.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:17:00 GMT

Congratulations to the bulk protection tool team for getting this tool delivered ahead of schedule. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f9fbe58f-c175-41d0-afdc-6f160ab809cd This tool can be used to perform E-Discovery...(read more)

Managing your ADRMS database

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:41:00 GMT

For all those interested in best practices for ADRMS Performance and Logging, check out this technet section. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd941633(WS.10).aspx -Jason Read More......(read more)

Nothing to do with RMS - Protect your home machines.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:27:00 GMT

For anyone that didn't know Microsft has released a *free* Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware/Malware application that you can stick on all of your home machines. I am running it on all of mine at home, and it works great. The best kind of AV product is one...(read more)