First published on CloudBlogs on Nov 30, 2016
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The
Documentation for Azure Information Protection
(formerly Azure Rights Management) has been updated on the web and the latest content has an
November 2016
(or later) date at the top of the article.
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What's new in the documentation for Azure Information Protection, November 2016
The following information lists the articles that have significant technical changes since the last update (October 2016).
Compliance and supporting information for Azure Information Protection
- Updated the
Security, compliance, and auditing
section, with a link to
How does Azure RMS work?
for people looking for in-depth technical information for the service.
Requirements for Azure Information Protection
- Updated to clarify that Office 365 ProPlus with 2016 apps or 2013 apps are supported for classification, labeling, and protection. There is no requirement or dependency on how these apps are installed (Click-to-Run or traditional .MSI files).
Applications that support Azure Rights Management data protection
- Updated footnote 5 for Office for iOS and Android, to clarify that iOS supports viewing and editing protected documents, while Android supports only viewing protected documents.
Frequently asked questions about classification and labeling in Azure Information Protection
- New entry:
How do I sign in as a different user?
Frequently asked questions about data protection in Azure Information Protection
- New entry:
What’s the difference between Azure Rights Management encryption and encryption in other Microso...
Azure Information Protection deployment roadmap
- Updated the first step for assigning licenses to clarify that you should not assign the free RMS for individuals license to users, which displays as
Rights Management Adhoc
in the Office 365 admin center, and
RIGHTSMANAGEMENT_ADHOC
when you run the Azure AD PowerShell cmdlet, Get-MsolAccountSku.
Migration phase 1 - server-side configuration for AD RMS
- Updated to clarify that configuration data from AD RMS (in the form of trusted publishing domains) includes archived keys that will still be needed to decrypt documents and emails when the migration is complete. It's therefore important to export (and later to import into Azure) all the trusted publishing domains from your AD RMS cluster. If you miss this step and only export/import the current trusted publishing domain, you risk having documents and emails that cannot be opened after users are migrated to Azure Information Protection.
Planning and implementing your Azure Information Protection tenant key
- Updated the
Prerequisites for BYOK
section, to clarify that the free Azure subscription that provides access to configure Azure Active Directory is not sufficient for Azure Key Vault. To help you check this prerequisite, we've added instructions about how to use the Get-AzureRmSubscription cmdlet.
Activating Azure Rights Management
- Updated the
onboarding controls
section to clarify how to find the GUID for the group, for the first example that shows how you might use onboarding controls to restrict protecting content to your IT department in the early phases of your rollout.
How to configure the global policy settings for Azure Information Protection
- Updated for the new option
Provide a custom URL for the Azure Information Protection client "Tell me more" web page
.
How to configure a label to apply Rights Management protection
- Updated to clarify that Exchange does not have to be configured for information rights management (IRM) before users can apply labels in Outlook to protect their emails. However, until Exchange is configured for IRM, you will not get the full functionality of using Azure Rights Management protection with Exchange.
Configuring servers for the Azure Rights Management connector
- Updated the
Exchange
section, with clarifying information about how to confirm the RMS client version.
Monitor the Azure Rights Management connector
- Updated the
RMS Analyzer
section, with additional information how to use the tool.
Installing the Azure Information Protection client
- Updated the section
To verify installation, connection status, or report a problem
, for information about the new
Tell me more link
and the
Run diagnostics
option.
Azure Information Protection client: Version release history
- Updated for the latest release, version 1.2.4.0.
Disable-AadrmDocumentTrackingFeature
- Updated with the additional information that for the time period when document tracking is disabled by running this cmdlet, activity related to shared documents (who opened them, when, from which location) is not shown in the document tracking site, if document tracking is later enabled. The description for
Enable-AadrmDocumentTrackingFeature
is similarly updated for this clarification.
