ADRMS Installation Facts

ADRMS (Active Directory Rights Management Server) 

Active directory rights management services is a form of service which helps in protecting  corporate information through policies applied over them selective operations could be authorized for selective users and the access could be streamlined .companies use this technology to protect their information which flows through emails, web services or shares .

Below is the general set up required to enforce this service

Set up key facts

1.       Login to Active directory and create domain users (if active directory already exists)

2.       Install Microsoft server 2008 R2 on a new machine, login as administrator and go to add roles and install active directory rights management role

3.       You need service account to specify while installing if this machine is not there on a domain then the service account has to be a member of enterprise admin group

4.       If you want to use internal database then you can select the same, if you want to use external database server then select the same.

5.       Database server which is selected here should have sql server browser services running and remote connections enabled.

6.       We need to select SSL security for server authentication

7.       You can select the certificates issued by your CA or self-signed certificates.

8.       Service connection point should be registered while installing ADRMS.

9.       After installation you can create ADRMS templates and path has to be specified on server.

10.   Change the registry settings at server as well as at client where this set up need to be tested.

my next blog would cover detailed steps of ADRMS installation with screenshots.