Microsoft RMS: Maintain control of business content
PC Magazine | at | by Mike
Aiming to protect corporate intellectual property, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services 1.0 delivers a promising security infrastructure for safeguarding your company's documents in both Microsoft Office 2003 and in custom systems built with the freely downloadable RMS SDK. RMS marks a new and important step for better control over corporate data to guard against unauthorized use.
We installed RMS on Windows Server 2003 (the only supported server OS) with SQL Server 2000 as the database. Running the setup wizard for RMS is practically effortless; the real work was needed during the provisioning step, which is not as easy as with other administrative chores in Windows. Getting this right will require an IT manager to brush up on certificate management and overall security issues.