Do you need RMS/IRM in Office for Macintosh?

Please let me know if this is a feature you'd be interested in. We're looking to build the business case to develop it, and the best way to do that is for you, our customers, to let us know.

Also, if any of you want to deploy RMS now but can't because there's currently no Mac support, I especially need to know. Thanks!

Published 23 April 08 03:34 by Steve Riley

Filed under: RMS, encryption, access control

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# Dale said on April 24, 2008 6:19 AM:

No. Have not heard of anyone developing an Macintosh SOE either.

# Alex said on April 25, 2008 12:03 PM:

Well.. it's not something that i personally would like to have but unfortunatly i work in an organisation who has a design and a inhouse department working on pretty confidential data on a g.. d... MAC. And i guess there are other organizations like us out there.

But we are right now trying to convince them to change OS, and one argument in that battle is that we can better protect their drawings on a windows platform with a 3rd party add-on.

# Anon said on April 28, 2008 3:50 AM:

I have never heard it mentioned, however there is little opportunity to try the application. Seeing as it is not available through MSDN. Will that ever change?

# Wes Miller said on April 28, 2008 10:28 AM:

Steve; I would definitely use this. For what it's worth, after Office 2003 shipped and there was no client for OS X (and Office 2003 under VPC was punishingly slow) it would have been more significant. Today, with VMware or Parallels, it's almost just as easy to get Office 2007 running under XP and utilize IRM there. Not quite as easy - but nearly. :-)

# Ian Bowman said on May 7, 2008 7:15 AM:

Just embarking on AD RMS implementation, whilst the lack of support for Mac isn't stopping us move forward with this, it is high on our list of desirables.

We work in in a UK Uni environment and I'm specifically in a Medical area where there is a fair amount of macs.

Side note: I really believe in RMS as a solution but I personally find a distinct lack of information with respect to best practice setups and AD RMS