This step-by-step guide walks you through the process of deploying Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 together in a test environment. Specifically, this guide shows you how to add an Office SharePoint Server 2007 to an existing AD RMS environment. Important Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 does not have the Microsoft® Office protector files that are required to automatically rights-protect a document when it is uploaded. You must use Office SharePoint Server 2007 to do this. This guide assumes that you previously completed the Active Directory Rights Management Services Step-by-Step Guide, and that you have already deployed the following components: · One Active Directory domain controller · An AD RMS server · An AD RMS database server · An AD RMS-enabled client In this guide, you will create a test deployment that includes an Office SharePoint Server 2007 server. Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides an easy way to collaborate on documents by posting them to an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site so that they can be accessed over the corporate network. The goal of integrating an Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment with an AD RMS infrastructure is to be able to protect documents that are downloaded from the Office SharePoint Server 2007 server by users of any given organization.

This step-by-step guide walks you through the process of configuring Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) in a test environment that includes an extranet. An extranet is an extension of your organization's network to an external source. In this guide, the AD RMS cluster is extended to the Internet so that users can consume rights-protected content when not connected to the internal network. During this process, you install Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Standard Edition, integrate it with AD RMS, and verify that you can open a rights-protected document from a computer that is not a member of your organizational network. Once complete, you can use the test AD RMS lab environment to assess how AD RMS on Windows Server® 2008 can be created and deployed within your organization to accommodate for extranet users. As you complete the steps in this guide, you will: · Install and configure ISA Server 2006 Standard Edition with AD RMS. · Verify AD RMS functionality after you complete the configuration.