Deploying Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS)

London (EC3)

22/03/10

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1,185

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19/04/10

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06/04/10

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1,185

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Audience

This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to deploy and manage Windows Rights Management Services for the protection of digital information in a Windows Server 2003 environment. This is a technical hands-on course for administrators, systems engineers, security specialists and implementers who will deploy Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services.

Skills Gained

At the end of the course, students will be able to explain the RMS architecture and infrastructure; explain RMS and its relationship to desktop applications; install RMS on Windows Server 2003; understand RMS configuration such as trust policies and rights policies; interoperate with other organizations' RMS deployments; understand the integration of RM-enabled applications such as MS Office 2003; understand the management of a RMS deployment.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have the following pre-requisites:

• A good understanding of Windows Server 2000 and/or 2003 and Active Directory.
• A general knowledge of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) concepts and SQL Server 2000 is also helpful.

Course Outline

1. Why Rights Management?
2. RMS Architecture
3. RMS Installation and Provisioning
4. Rights Management Client
5. Content Protection and Consumption
6. Rights Policy Templates
7. Managing Trust
8. Deploying and Maintaining RMS Infrastructure
9. Troubleshooting
10. Extranet Considerations

Module 1: Why Rights Management?

• Rights Management Overview
• Public Key Technology Overview

Skills

• Describe business reasons for using RMS.
• Explain what RMS does to protect enterprise data.
• Describe usage scenarios that can benefit from an RMS implementation.
• Describe the components and technology that supports an RMS implementation.
• Describe how RMS utilizes a public key technology to protect information.

Module 2: RMS Architecture

• Introduction to RMS
• RMS Components
• Lab: Verifying Active Directory

Skills

• Describe how RMS works including how the publishing and use licenses are used in a RMS environment.
• Describe the RMS Infrastructure components.
• Describe the RMS client-side components.
• Describe how Active Directory contributes to the RMS infrastructure.

Module 3: RMS Installation and Provisioning

• Installing RMS Server
• Lab: Creating the RMS Service Account
• Lab: Installing and Provisioning RMS

Skills

• Describe the hardware and software requirements in order to install RMS Server.
• Describe the steps required to successfully install RMS Server.
• Define and describe the RMS Server provisioning process.
• Explain the various configuration options available for provisioning an RMS Server.
• Install and provision RMS.

Module 4: Rights Management Client

• RM Client Components
• Machine Activation
• User Certification
• Lab: Installing the RMS Client
• Lab: RMS Application Deployment

Skills

• Understand the components that make up the RM client.
• Explain the process of machine activation.
• Explain the process of user certification in an RMS environment.
• Describe the features of Microsoft Office 2003 that relate to IRM.
• Describe the Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer.
• Install the RMS client
• Manage and deploy RMS-enabled applications using Group Policy.

Module 5: Content Protection and Consumption

• Content Protection Requirements
• Publishing RMS-Protected Content
• Consuming RMS-Protected Content
• Offline Protection
• Lab: Creating and Consuming by Using Word 2003
• Lab: Creating and Consuming by Using Outlook 2003
• Lab: Consuming Content by Using the Rights Management Add-On for Internet Explorer
• Lab: Using Active Directory Security Groups

Skills

• Describe the requirements related to protecting content using RMS.
• Describe the process of publishing RMS content.
• Describe the process of consuming RMS content.
• Describe how RMS content can be protected off-line.
• Create and consume RMS-protected content using Microsoft Word.
• Create and consume RMS-protected email using Microsoft Outlook.
• Create and consume RMS-protected content using Microsoft Excel.
• Implement RMS using Active Directory Security Groups.

Module 6: Rights Policy Templates

• Overview of Rights Policy Templates
• Creating Rights Policy Templates
• Distributing Rights Policy Templates
• Working with Rights Policy Templates
• Best Practices
• Lab: Creating and Using Rights Policy Template
• Lab: Modifying Existing Templates
• Lab: Assigning Different Rights to Different Users

Skills

• Describe how Rights Policy Templates are used in the RMS environment.
• Explain how to define a Rights Policy Template.
• Explain how to distribute a Rights Policy Template.
• Describe some of the management tasks related to Rights Policy Templates.
• Create and distribute Rights Policy Templates.
• Assign rights to different users using Rights Policy Templates.
• Modify existing templates.

Module 7: Managing Trust

• Overview of Managing Trust
• Trusted User Domains
• Lab: Defining Trusted User Domains
• Lab: Excluding Users and Applications
• Lab: Configuring the Super Users Group

Skills

• Describe trust policies related to trusted user domains and trusted publishing domains.
• Describe exclusion policies related to lockbox version, Windows version, RAC exclusion, and application exclusion.
• Explain how revocation works.
• Describe the Super Users group and how it related to RMS.
• Define trusted user domains.
• Exclude user and applications.
• Utilize the Super Users group.

Module 8: Deploying and Maintaining RMS Infrastructure

• Adding Servers to the RMS Infrastructure
• Subordinate Licensing Servers
• Managing Clusters
• RMS Logging
• RMS Disaster Recovery

Skills

• Calculate the number of required RMS servers.
• Describe how to add servers to an existing RMS root cluster.
• Describe how to add Subordinate Licensing Servers.
• Describe how to Replace, Decommission, Unprovision, and Uninstall RMS servers.
• Explain the RMS Logging function.
• Describe procedures used in RMS disaster recovery.

Module 9: Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting RMS
• RMS Administration Toolkit
• Lab: Using RMS Toolkit Applications

Skills

• Describe troubleshooting procedures related to various RMS functions such as Domain Name System (DNS) issues, Service Connection Point (SCP) issues, Provisioning, Internet access, client certification, and consuming content.
• Describe the various tools available in the RMS Administration Toolkit.

Module 10: Extranet Considerations

• Integrating an Extranet with RMS
• RMS and Firewall Options

Skills

• Describe the various extranet scenarios that can use RMS.
• Describe the need for access to the licensing pipeline from the extranet scenario.
• Describe the process related to RMS Service Discovery for Extranet clients.
• Describe how RMS can be implemented in a perimeter network and Intranet scenario.
• Describe how ISA Server can be used to provide RMS services to extranet clients.