AD RMS has its own role services and related components that need to work together in order to maintain a healthy AD RMS environment. Let's look at these components in detail.
AD RMS components
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
AD RMS is one of the Active Directory 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...