If you want to try this for yourself, by using a Trial Office 365 subscription, sign upĥ. Do I really mean a few minutes? Yes, just a few minutes. In just a few minutes by using the following steps, you can enable Azure RMS, SharePoint Online, and Exchange Online to enable information protection. If your organization is in the process of migrating to Office 365 (you have users on Exchange Server or using SharePoint on premises), we have a new feature called the RMS connector that will enable protected content to work with your online services as well as your on-premises servers. Learn more about the RMS connector here:
To use Office 2010 with Azure RMS, you must install the RMS App, which configures Office 2010 to work with Azure RMS. We’ll discuss our collaboration capabilities more in a later post.
The RMS App supports Windows, Windows Phone 8, iPhone, iPad, and Android. This is a new application that works within the file explorer, Microsoft Office, and with many of today's popular devices to provide a streamlined experience to share content within and outside of your organization. Rights Management is supported within Office 2010 and Office 2013. In addition, Rights Management can also be enabled on SkyDrive Pro, to ensure your users’ data is always protected regardless of the storage location. For example, cannot print, read only, and the ability to force a user to request permissions every time the document is opened. These controls includes a set of granular permissions to specify what a user can do after downloading the document. SharePoint provides a rich set of controls when using Rights Management. If the user is accessing SharePoint Online and does not have Microsoft Office installed, the protected content can also be viewed using a web browser and the Office Web Access Companion with SharePoint Online. After configuring SharePoint for Rights Management, when a user downloads a file from a document library, RMS protection is applied according to the permissions that you specify. Rights Management is supported within SharePoint Document Libraries. To aid with discovery, Exchange Online also provides search indexing on rights protected content and journal decryption to ensure your organization can use automated reasoning tools with the rights protected content. Once such data is identified by Exchange Online that meets your criteria, the message can then be protected by using Rights Management and ensure that only the intended recipients have access to the message.
For example, automated rules can be created to look for patterns of company confidential R&D information, payment card information, social security numbers, or patient data in health care organizations. An organization using DLP with Transport rules provides a backstop to help prevent the inadvertent data leaks, and to help you meet compliance requirements by ensuring that your data is protected with your organization’s policies. Your users will always have a way to view rights protected content.Įxchange Online also uses RMS in conjunction with rich controls to protect your content via Transport rules and data leakage prevention (DLP). In addition, devices that have integrated with Exchange Active Sync for Rights Management, such as Windows Phone 8, enable users to view protected messages. Rights Management in Exchange Online enables users to view and create rights-protected messages in Outlook, Outlook Web App via a browser, OWA for There are several different services that integrate with Azure RMS: Office, SharePoint Online and Exchange Online.Įxchange Online offers a very rich set of features that are integrated with Azure RMS. For more information about licensing, please view this Azure RMS provides your users an easy way to protect data, and for your IT pros to apply additional controls across the organization.Īzure RMS is included with E3, E4, A3, A4, plans, or you can purchase Azure RMS as a Whether your information is on Office 365, mobile devices, computers, cloud drives, or file shares, you can now use Azure RMS to protect your data wherever it goes. If your organization is already using or planning on moving to Office 365, information protection is available to you via Azure Rights Management. Here we'll focus on organizations that are looking/using Office365.
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