RMS: Protecting Your Assets.

KB: Installing Active Directory Rights Management Services fails with error ID 204

J.C. Hornbeck — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:40:47 GMT

Here’s a new KB we published on an issue where trying to install AD RMS fails with a 204 error. This normally is caused by corruption in the Service Connection Point and we have information on how to fix it in the article below: 2799251 - Installing Active...(read more)

An Expired SLC in AD RMS?

Steve Light - MSFT — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:39:12 GMT

In the world of technical support, issues seem to appear in clusters at times. I’ve just had a couple of issues where the AD RMS server licensor certificate (SLC) expired. The the olden days, as my kids call it, RMS v1 had an SLC with a two year validity...(read more)

Changing the RMS Service Account Password

Steve Light - MSFT — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:27:52 GMT

I had someone ask me how to best update the AD RMS service account password. As we started mulling over it we realized that this is more than just a domain account that we change the password in the services mmc. Some of this information may be in the...(read more)

Microsoft Rights Management Client Fix Information

Steve Light - MSFT — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:14:37 GMT

UPDATE (08/15/12): The new and maintained home for this information is on our wiki, here: Microsoft Rights Management Client Fix Information . With the recent Windows 8 RTM I wanted to pull together a list of IRM related fixes. These are fixes for both...(read more)

AD RMS Server Returns HTTP 500 (part 2)

Steve Light - MSFT — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:37:11 GMT

I am seeing more ways to get an HTTP 500 error out of IIS… I do want to go on record and point out that when IIS configurations prevent RMS from working it really isn’t an RMS issue. I concede the point that you don’t care why your RMS isn’t working,...(read more)

AD RMS Server Returns IIS 500 Errors

Steve Light - MSFT — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:23:02 GMT

I’ve seen a rash of these cases recently. It’s ranged from not being able to configure IRM integration on SharePoint (hence my earlier post) to just about any client interaction with RMS server symptom. The client will report some error. The AD RMS server...(read more)

New Wiki Content–Removing Old RMS Servers

Steve Light - MSFT — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:39:31 GMT

Out of nowhere I get three different sources asking me how to clean up old servers out of the RMS infrastructure. I was hesitant to tell folks to go poking around in the RMS configuration database. However the edits are benign enough and we all back up...(read more)

End of the UDDI Service and Server Ramifications

Steve Light - MSFT — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:56:32 GMT

This is from KB 2708963 Administrators receive a security warning and an error message when they try to perform some tasks for Windows Rights Management Services 1.0 for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 The Universal Description Discover and Integration...(read more)

AD RMS Wiki

Steve Light - MSFT — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:50:05 GMT

I wanted to call out the AD RMS wiki that a lot of us are working on. There is some great content from a varied source of authors. I know that we are working to push good content out. I know the format of the current page is not the greatest, and we’ll...(read more)

RMS errors with XP IE7 and Office 2007

Steve Light - MSFT — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:44:06 GMT

Our RMS brother from Germany, Uwe, had the following RMS encounter. He wanted to share it on the blog. Recently had an interesting issue with a customer where Windows XP SP3 clients with Office 2007 SP2 were not able to create or consume RMS protected...(read more)