Chapter 16. Active Directory Rights Management Services

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS), formerly known simply as Rights Management Services, is designed to extend the reach of your internal network to the outside world. However, now the extension applies to intellectual property. People have been struggling with Digital Rights Management (DRM) ever since they started working with computers. In the first days of computing, software manufacturers went to great lengths to protect their software from theft. Even today, some vendors require the use of hardware keys for their software to run. Others have resorted to a web-based approval and validation process. For example, with the release of Windows 7, Microsoft introduced a new ...

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