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Windows Azure AD Rights Management and AD RMS
Published: October 29, 2012
Updated: April 22, 2013
Applies To: Windows Azure AD Rights Management
When evaluating if Windows Azure AD Rights Management is the right choice for safeguarding content in your organization or as you share content with trusted partners in other organizations, you might have questions about how Rights Management compares to its predecessor on the Windows Server platform, Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS). The following table provides a side-by-side comparison of the features and benefits of Rights Management and AD RMS.
| Windows Azure AD Rights Management | Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) |
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Supports IRM capabilities in Microsoft online services and their offerings such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. Currently, Rights Management does not support IRM integration with traditional on-premises Office server products, such as Microsoft Exchange Server. |
Designed to work primarily with on-premises Microsoft server products such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Exchange Server and File Classification Infrastructure (FCI). |
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Enables implicit trust between organizations and users who are current Microsoft Office 365 subscribers. Content can be easily and safely shared between users within the same organization or across organizational lines with valid users in other Office 365 tenant accounts. |
Trusts are explicitly defined in a direct point-to-point relationship between two organizations using either trusted user domains (TUDs) or federated trusts that are created using Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). |
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Provides a predefined set of rights policy templates for use. These include two templates; one that provides read-only viewing of protected content and another template which provides write or modify permissions over the protected content. |
Provides the ability to create and define your own rights policy templates for use. Templates for AD RMS can be configured on a more granular level as discussed in AD RMS Policy Template Considerations. |
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Supports users of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Office 2013 products. |
Supports users of Microsoft Office 2007 as well as other versions of Microsoft Office products such as Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Office 2013. |
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Does not provide support for Windows XP users. Supports users who are running Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. |
Provides support for users running Windows XP, as well as later releases such as Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. |
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Supports Cryptographic Mode 2 only. For more information, see AD RMS Cryptographic Modes |
Supports both Cryptographic Mode 1 as well as Cryptographic Mode 2. For more information, see AD RMS Cryptographic Modes. |
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Only supports outbound migration from Windows Azure AD Rights Management to Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS). |
Supports migration from Windows Azure AD Rights Management as well as migration from Rights Management Services (AD RMS) running under Windows Server 2003. |
