Today I thought I'd touch on something that I get asked about alot. After-market parts for RMS. Who do I call for custom solutions to pimp-out my RMS environment? Purchasing RMS and Office is alot like buying a car. Right off the lot, it is the...

Hello everyone, How many people have heard the saying 'There is no such thing as a free lunch'? Well it's true. Time for you all to pay for your free lunch (the time I spend writing these posts to help people get the most out of RMS. OK, I didn't say...

I don't talk to much about the RMS 'server' side of things very often, pretty much because if you've set it up properly (the first time), and your domain is healthy, you won't run into problems. Most supportability issues stem from the client. Anyways...

Ahh. The second KB article. Maybe now that there is two of them, they will multiply. Problem: If you are using Blackberry Enterprise Systems (BES), and RMS, and both are sharing the same SQL database, you may run into the following issue. RMS...

I've had several customers ask me how to administer RMS remotely. It seems that by default you can only administer RMS from the machine itself. First let me say... don't do it! You are widening the attack vector when you allow the administration of...

Hello everyone, First let me say, it has been an extremely busy few months in the world of RMS. Longhorn is looking awsome, and the product group has taken feedback from our customers to build the best RMS to date. I'm very happy to be involved with...

As I'm sure some of you are aware, when you provision RMS, you are given the option of selecting the CSP (Cryptographic Service Provider) for your private keys. If you choose to use the software based private keys, then you are prompted to enter a password...

There comes a time in the life of a support engineer, when just when you think you finally know allot about something, you will get a weeks worth of customers calling in with questions that make you feel like you don't know anything. (A big hole in my...

I have seen the following error creeping up more and more, so I thought I'd document it here un'officially' before having to jump through all of the hoops required to get a KB written. You can say you saw it here first. :) So here is the blogs very...

So behind the scenes of my normal workday a partner of ours had challenged me to find an answer to a problem I had posted earlier in the blog. Together we worked on the problem, and resolved it CSI Miami style. <<Enter 'Won't Get Fooled Again...

OK, so I lied about the bag of chips, but here are the keys. Some of these are a mystery to me, and I haven't had a chance to get into the source to look at them, or have and am in the process of figuring out their use. ;) Use these at your own risk....

So here we are. One holiday, and a severe lower back injury later. In the last post we discussed setting up LogAnalyzer. Today I will try to get through setting up the actual QuickLook piece, while squirming and writhing in agony in this god-forsaken...

If you are planning on upgrading to Office 2007, and you want to be able to create IRM/RMS protected content, make doubly sure that you know what you are buying. Office 2007 Professional no longer has the ability to protect content. You have to have...

Definition of Mo' Betta ===================================== - For something to be better than it was before. Example: This last beer was mo' betta than the first. SETTING THINGS UP TO BE MO' BETTA ===================================== There is another...

People forwarding e-mails is one of the biggest problems of security breaches that enterprises are faced with now days. Don't believe me? Read this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/technology/11email.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin...

Perhaps some of you admins have noticed the presence of the RMS SP2 Client in your WSUS installations. Perhaps some of you also noticed that it is a full blown install of the RMS client, even if you only have WSUS setup to download 'delta' installs. ...

You've done everything wrong and you know it. You put RMS on a machine with multiple services running on it, you haven't backed up your SLC, private key, and RMS databases, and now your server just crashed...and crashed hard. It's dead...flat lined.....

So since this is an RMS blog, and chances are that the people that are reading this are not here looking for football scores (We all know the New England Patriots are going to win the super bowl anyways. Ha!), I'm wondering what you, the customer, would...

With the release of Office 2007, we've added some keys to help control Office IRM a little more. There are also some keys that I'll mention, that apply to Office 11, that you may not have known about. I'll put a note at the bottom if it also applies to...

OK. Today's feature presentation will complete our IRMCheck series. After this lesson everyone who reads this will be dubbed 'the expert' within your company walls, so beware...reading this may cause you to be given MORE WORK! RMA Activation Service...

Problem: Your new boss decides that he wants the key machines within your forest to now be professionally named with a purpose, instead of using the funny office names you currently have like 'DuckButt', and 'PickleMonkey'. Maybe you got a new server...

Todays discussion will focus on the Office registry information section of IRMCheck . Essentially RMS does allot of things auto magically in the way that is discovers where all of the bits and pieces of your RMS organization are stored. It does this...

Today I will discuss the certificates section of IRMCheck . I plagiarized most of this from an internal note we had, but it was correct, so why not. :) GIC - Group Identity Certificate . This is also known as a Rights Account Certificate (RAC). (I...

Download the RMS Toolkit from this location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B287CEC3-B6CA-4C0B-A9F5-11428092CC3F&displaylang=en This contains an invaluable tool called IRMCheck , that you can run on the clients, that...