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• February 24, 2004 •
This week, Microsoft released Rights Management add-on for Internet Explorer 1.0. The Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer is a way that Windows users can view files with restricted permission. These restrictions help people to prevent sensitive documents, Web-based information, and e-mail messages from being forwarded, edited, or copied by unauthorized individuals.
Authors can set restricted permission to limit what a reader can do with the content they receive. These restrictions are customizable, that is, one person may view the document but not print it, another may do both, and a third person may view and print the document, but only for a set number of days.
Authors can restrict permission to Web-based information as they create it, and then save the content as a rights-managed HTML file (with the file name extension .rmh). If the readers have installed the Rights Management Add-on, they can open the file and use the contents, based on the permission that the author has given them.
Authoring applications, such as word processors, can also create documents with restricted permission that can be opened in either the authoring application or in a Web browser. The authoring program includes a rights-managed HTML version of the document within the original file. Restrictions are applied to the whole file.
System Requirements
For more information, see the Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer FAQ
This software is available in the following languages:
Note I: In order for to successfully run the beta for Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer (RMA) please first install the Windows Rights Management client (RM). Installing the RM client places software on your computer that allows it to respond to requests for licenses and keys. The RMA will not correctly run without installing the RM client before the RMA.
