MS Office Beta Notes

This is a side-blog where I intend to keep all of my notes from Beta testing new versions of Office. This will keep them all in one place for future reference. I started this with Office 2003, and am bringing it back for the 2007 version. This is not an official Microsoft site, this is just the ramblings of one IT guy.

Tuesday, May 06, 2003

Information Rights Management

I downloaded the little piece that allows me to use IRM on Office documents and Outlook messages. According to the details, there's quite a bit involved in this whole thing. (Can you just imagine the support calls that will be generated when people get an email message and find they can't print it or forward it? *L*)

Anyway, in order to use it you need to have access to a right's server, which stores the credentials (not the files). I'm not sure if, in release, the right's server is something you're going to have to have to use this service or if MS will be providing an online version. In the beta they offer a free trial version of the online server. I don't get the impression that will continue past the beta expiration date.

And yes, you need to have a .Net Passport account to sign up for the free trial. :)