Enable or Disable IRM for Internal Messages

Applies to: Exchange Server 2010

In Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, the Rights Management Services (RMS) Prelicensing agent is a built-in agent. Built-in agents aren't visible in the Transport Agents tab in the EMC, and they're not included in the list of agents returned by the Get-TransportAgent cmdlet. For more details, see Understanding Transport Agents.

Prelicensing is enabled for the Exchange organization by default. You can disable it if you want. For more information, see Understanding Information Rights Management.

Looking for other management tasks related to rights protection? Check out Managing Information Rights Management.

What Do You Want to Do?

  • Use the Shell to disable Prelicensing
  • Use the Shell to enable Prelicensing

Use the Shell to disable Prelicensing

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Rights Protection" entry in the Messaging Policy and Compliance Permissions topic.

Note

You can't use the EMC to disable Prelicensing.

This example disables Prelicensing for the Exchange organization.

Set-IRMConfiguration -PrelicensingEnabled $false

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-IRMConfiguration.

Use the Shell to enable Prelicensing

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Rights Protection" entry in the Messaging Policy and Compliance Permissions topic.

Note

You can't use the EMC to enable Prelicensing.

This example enables Prelicensing for the Exchange organization.

Set-IRMConfiguration -PrelicensingEnabled $true

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-IRMConfiguration.