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How to forbid printing in Remote Work scenario?
Hi, With so many people working remote these days we have a question. Assume our employee Bob goes home, and starts his personal home computer, opens a browser and connects to the Company Azure Sha...
Hi Reza,
Thank you for the links.
What I fail to understand is how Information Rights Management will solve this problem.
How will Rights Management be able to detect that when I am in the office, using company equipment I should be able to print a document....while when I am working from home, using my home computer (not company supplied), I shouldn't be able to print that very same document on my home printer (not company supplied).
Are you able to clarify, in detail, how Rights Management achieves this functionality?
Thank you.
Are you using local AD in your company?
In this case, you may setup a group and in that group you set the Right Management to permit printing and add users to this group.
So while they are at work, they would be able to print because they have access to this local AD group.
However, in Azure AD (outside company) the policy would prevent printing.
You may check conditional access too:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/conditional-access-azure-management
In this case, you may setup a group and in that group you set the Right Management to permit printing and add users to this group.
So while they are at work, they would be able to print because they have access to this local AD group.
However, in Azure AD (outside company) the policy would prevent printing.
You may check conditional access too:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/conditional-access-azure-management