How to install Active Directory Rights Management Services

One of the best features of Active Directory in Windows server 2008 is a security tool called Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS). AD RMS allows organizations to secure content such as word documents, excel spread sheets, email’s and even can be integrated in SharePoint. A user would need to be authenticated before they could access the data from any of those content sources. I know this topic has been covered before but I wanted to post the steps from my deployment of AD RMS.

A Windows Server 2008 domain is required before you begin.

On the server you will deploy AD RMS on:

  • Open Server manager
  • Expand Roles
  • Right click and select Add New Roles
  • Click Next
  • Select AD Rights management Services and click next

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The following roles will need to be added as well.

  • Click Add Required Role Services.

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  • Click Next

You can explore more about AD RMS on the next window by clicking any of the links. When done click next.

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How to manually remove AD RMS

There may be a time when an AD RMS install goes bad or you have to remove it for whatever reason. In my case this was deployed by someone else and it needed to be removed because it was not deployed correctly. RMS was not working properly to the point where you could not get into the console.

Because it was not working I could not use the traditional way to de-commission it. I had to force a removal of RMS which should always be a last resort. Here are the steps to do this:

Go and download the AD RMS toolkit from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=1479

Install the AD RMS toolkit

  • Open an elevated command prompt
  • CD out to %systemdrive%:\Program Files (x86)\RMS SP2 Administration Toolkit\ADScpRegister\
  • ADScpRegister.exe unregisterscp https://rms.domain.com

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