RMS

New Twitter account. Really??

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:39:44 GMT

I suspect that this is something that has the potential to turn into me getting fired so I had to sign up. Follow me @ http://twitter.com/#!/adrmsboy to see how long I last. :D -Jason...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

What's shiny, and new and smells like pumpkin pie?

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:21:00 GMT

Well if you happen to log onto connect, and download our new MSIPC and GFP bits...and are also eating some pumpkin pie, then I guess the new stuff we just released fits that criteria (assuming you have a shiny machine). Anyone who knows about and uses...(read more)

Another day...another poorly written script. Checking the MemberOf attribute.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:32:00 GMT

OK. So I had the need to write a script that pulls the memberof attribute of a user. I needed this script because there was a suspicion that the reason the customer in question could not open content as a superuser is because the RMS Service account....(read more)

Office 2010 users receive an "An Unexpected Error has occurred.." while trying to IRM protect content.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:22:00 GMT

So you installed KB2584066. You're minding your own business trying to RMS protect some content, and BAM! "An unexpected error has occurred while trying to restrict permissions to your document. Contact your administrator for assistance."...(read more)

New Version of IRMCheck now available.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:13:19 GMT

You can get it here. IRMCheck Wow....I have no self-humoring comments to make? I guess its time to head back to the mountain summit to self-enlighten. -Jason...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Pushing the limit of mail recipients.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:19:00 GMT

This is an oldie, but a goodie, and we get enough calls on it to warrant a blog post. Picture the following scenario: You are sending an email with your favorite secret brownie recipie to a few friends at work. You decide to protect the email (it...(...(read more)

More RMS survival tips and tricks from the mind of "The Uwe".

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:54:00 GMT

Thanks to Uwe Wizovsky, my German brother from another mother, for todays ADRMS survival tips. HiHo, Tip 1: Faster is better. I recently had a strange issue with a customer. We were seeing a performance issue (very slow response when trying to...( read...(read more)

Your revocation has been revoked...sort of.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:35:00 GMT

I recently had a call regarding revocation lists. My favorite topic because I really don’t get too many calls on it, and didn’t know a lot about it. What we discovered is that revocation lists on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is actually...(read more)

Cross Forest SuperUsers - How it's done.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:45:00 GMT

Heres the scenario: You have two forests we will call ForestA and ForestB. You have an RMS server in each forest, and a two way trust setup between forests. You have a group of users in both forests that need to be able to be SuperUsers in both organizations...(read more)

Something special for Mac users. Get your IRM on in Office 2011 for Mac.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:37:22 GMT

Finally. All you Mac users can IRM protect your Office content with Office 2011 for Mac. If you want to start playing with this functionality you need to install RC1 (I suggest installing it in a test environment), on your WS2008 R2 RMS server. This will...(read more)

Office AdminTemplatePath GPO headache.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:35:52 GMT

OK. I'm kind of tired of taking this call, so its time to blog on this one. You want to push a GPO out to your users that specified the path to the RMS templates. User Configuration\Microsoft Office 2007\Manage Restricted Permissions\Specify Permission...(read more)

RMS Templates named in GUID naming convention instead of a friendly naming convention.

RMS: Protecting Your Assets. — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:32:45 GMT

You've created RMS templates. You've dumped them to the drive to distribute. You look at the templates, and they have a name resembling the following: TMP-O6tlI;egFP6rLDCPLUPNXXxt5YKU=-4Ew62WVSylQ8;ePhl9Yc9N0kB;eRI=-{6d9371a6;k4e2d;k4e97;k9a38;k202233fed26e...(read more)

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)