Active Directory Right Management Services: Installation and Configuration

Restrict access to a Word document with AD RMS

In this part, we will see how restricted access to a Word document using AD RMS.

Pour rappel il faut :

• an email address configured to users
• Office Pro (201X) to apply restrictions.

Pour fonctionner, il peut être nécessaire de mettre l’url du cluster en site de confiance dans les options Internet.

In Word, create a document, save it, and then click FILE 1 .

Click on Protect document 1 , go to Restrict access 2 and click on Restricted access 3 .

The window that opens allows you to configure read and edit accesses, check the Restrict access to 1 box and click on the “group” icon in the Read 2 section.

Search for a user or group with a configured email address 1 and click OK 2 .

On the screenshot below, we can see that only the user [email protected] can read the document. Click on Other options 1 .

From this rights view, you can add other users or groups, add an expiration date …, click OK 1 to configure permissions on the Word document.

Dans les informations du document, on peut voir que celui-ci est protégé.

Depuis le mode édition, un bandeau s’affiche aussi pour indiquer que le document est en Accès restreint.

Now try to open the same document with a user who does not have the right to access the document, at the opening of it an error message indicating to contact the owner of the content.

If a user who does not have a configure e-mail address tries to open the document, you receive the following error message: The application received an unexpected response from the Rights Management server due to an incorrect configuration or a server error. Please contact Microsoft for additional assistance.

The message below can be confusing by returning an RMS server error.

If you open the document with user2, it is read-only.