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Use of Information Rights Management (IRM) in SharePoint

SharePoint is a Collaborating web platform provider which helps us to share documents and other information with the users of the SharePoint site. Information security is a main concern when sharing documents with various people. Information Right Management server facilitate to overcome the information right violation and restrict the access of the documents. Followings are the main advantages of IRM which mentioned on Microsoft.com site 1. Helps to prevent an authorized viewer from copying, modifying, printing, faxing, or copying and pasting the content for unauthorized use 2. Helps to prevent an authorized viewer from copying the content by using the Print Screen feature in Microsoft Windows 3. Helps to prevent an unauthorized viewer from viewing the content if it is sent in e-mail after it is downloaded from the server 4. Restricts access to content to a specified period of time, after which users must confirm their credentials and download the content again ·   

Information Right Management - SharePoint 2010

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Applying Information Right management (IRM) policy to your document library in SharePoint 2010 Set IRM policy Create a SharePoint group and set permission level Stop permission inheritance from the parent site Allow newly created group to access the document library which you want to apply IRM policy Add users to the group 1. Go to the Document library which you want to apply information Right Management server ( IRM server)Click the Library tab Then you have to click on the Library Settings icon of the Library tab You can see the following interface under the Library settings Then select Information Right Management under Permissions and Management which will open IRM Policy creation page Permission Policy Title: Give a title to identify the policy you will create. (Give a meaningful name for it) Permission Policy Description: Give a short description to the policy Allow Users to print docum