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Published inNov 2021
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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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AD RMS components

AD RMS has its own role services and related components that need to work together in order to maintain a healthy AD RMS environment:

  • Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
  • The AD RMS cluster
  • Web server
  • SQL Server
  • The AD RMS client
  • Active Directory Certificate Service (AD CS)

Let's look into each of these components in detail.

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)

AD RMS is one of the AD role services. AD RMS can be installed only in an AD DS environment. As a part of the setup, a service connection point (SCP) will need to be published via AD. It will help users to discover the service URLs for the AD RMS environment.

The AD RMS cluster

The AD RMS cluster is a single RMS server or a group of servers that share certificates and licensing requests from their clients. Even though it is named cluster, it is different from a typical Windows failover cluster. The failover cluster needs at least...

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
Read more about Dishan Francis