Adventures in Information Protection

Random Ramblings about Rights Management and Information Protection

Super Secret Unfinished Blog Posts!!!

Hi All, This is a quick note for my loyal blog followers.  I regularly have new ideas for blog posts...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 09/30/2018

AIP Scanner Express (Fully Functional in 10 minutes!)

The Scenario: You have been trying to install the AIP Scanner and have found that despite all the...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 09/30/2018

Full AIP Scanner Configuration (AIP Premium P2 Edition)

The Scenario: You recently signed an Enterprise Agreement that includes AIP Premium P2 as one of the...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 07/31/2018

Protecting Data That (Shouldn’t Be but) Is Leaving Your Network in the Clear

The Scenario: You have just received a message from Microsoft that Azure Information Protection and...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 07/19/2018

Sending Protected Attachments to Social Identities

The Scenario: So you have started using the fancy new Encrypt functionality to send protected emails...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 07/19/2018

Using Encrypt Only (Even on Older Office Versions!)

The Scenario: You have completed migrating all your mailboxes to Exchange Online and you have...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 07/19/2018

Full AIP Scanner Configuration (AIP Premium P1 Edition)

The Scenario: You recently signed an Enterprise Agreement that includes AIP Premium P1 as one of the...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 07/18/2018

Encrypting Emails from Anywhere!

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Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 07/09/2018

The Saga of Hold Your Own Key (AIP Classification with AD RMS Protection)

The Situation: Azure Information Protection (AIP) is a powerful technology for Classifying and...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 06/20/2018

AIP Scanner++ (Discovering all the sensitive data)

The Situation: So, you know that you have terabytes of unstructured data on your file shares and...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 06/18/2018

Creating Labels for Azure Information Protection

The Scenario: You are starting to implement Azure Information Protection and you need to create...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 05/17/2018

More Fun with the AIP Scanner (EMS E3/AIP P1 Capabilities)

The Scenario: So you recently read my post about configuring the Azure Information Protection...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 05/11/2018

AD RMS to AD RMS to Azure Information Protection Part 1

The Scenario: So, you have read my previous blog posts about AD RMS side-by-side migration and...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 04/26/2018

The Enterprise Admin (unpleasant) Way to Add an AD RMS Service Connection Point

The Situation: You need to install a new AD RMS cluster in your environment because you got a...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 04/26/2018

Easy Configuration of the Azure Information Protection Scanner

NOTE: This content has been moved to https://aka.ms/AIPBlog and will be maintained/updated at that...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 03/23/2018

AD RMS to Azure Information Protection: Enterprise Client Migration using SCCM Compliance Settings

The Scenario: Your management has just renewed their Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and bought a...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 01/17/2017

AD RMS: Upgrade Migration with a Named SQL Instance

The Scenario: You read my previous article but it does not cover how to do an upgrade migration if...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 01/13/2017

AD RMS: Side-by-Side Migration from AD RMS on 2008 R2 to 2012 R2

The Scenario: You are an AD RMS administrator running your AD RMS infrastructure on Windows Server...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 01/10/2017

AD RMS: Recovering from a database failure with an old backup

The Scenario: You are an AD RMS administrator and the SQL team calls you because the worst possible...

Author: Kevin.McKinnerney Date: 01/09/2017