First published on CloudBlogs on Jun 03, 2015
Hello everyone,
Many of you have requested the ability to automate (and integrate) the process of protecting and unprotecting content. We’re happy to announce the GA release of the
RMS Protection Tool
. Shubha is a PM on the team and she will talk about this release in more detail.
Hello, this is Shubha.
The
RMS Protection Tool
contains PowerShell Cmdlets designed for developers and IT professionals who want to use scripting mechanisms to bulk protect and unprotect documents. This tool will eventually replace the Bulk Protection tool which would enable similar and other e-Discovery scenarios for AD RMS.
With this release, you can do the following:
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Use admin-defined templates and ad-hoc policies to protect documents.
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Protect documents of any type - Office file formats, PDFs, text, images, and generic file protection.
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Use the Cmdlets on Azure RMS and on-premises AD RMS.
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Service-to-service authentication for Azure RMS scenarios - for server workloads, it is important that the application is authenticated silently, which can be achieved using these Cmdlets.
Protecting a file using ad-hoc protection (if you provide a folder path to the –File parameter, all files in that folder will be protected):
C:PS>$lic = New-RMSProtectionLicense -UserEmail user1@abc.com -Permission EDIT
Protect-RMSFile -License $lic -File C:Test.txt
InputFile EncryptedFile
--------- -------------
C:Test.txt C:Test.ptxt
Description
-----------
Protects a single file (Test.txt) using the ad-hoc license just created and places
encrypted output file in the same location.
Unprotecting a file
(if you provide a folder path to the –File parameter, all files in that folder will be unprotected):
C:PS>Unprotect-RMSFile -File C:Test.ptxt -OutputFolder C:Temp
InputFile DecryptedFile
--------- -------------
C:Test.ptxt C:TempTest.txt
Description
-----------
Unprotects a single file and places decrypted output file in the specified output folder location (C:Temp).
Extensive help on the Cmdlets is available via Get-Help. To get started, you can use the documentation PDF included with the download.
August update: The documentation has been updated and you'll find the latest version online -
RMS Protection Cmdlets
.
If you have downloaded the PowerShell Cmdlets from
Microsoft Connect
, please upgrade to this GA version. Our future plans for the RMS Protection Tool include support for emails and PST files. Watch this blog for updates.
As always, if you have any questions or comments, you can reach us at
askipteam@microsoft.com
