AD RMS components
AD RMS has its own role services and related components that need to work together in order to maintain a healthy AD RMS environment:
- Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
- The AD RMS cluster
- Web server
- SQL Server
- The AD RMS client
- Active Directory Certificate Service (AD CS)
Let's look into each of these components in detail.
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
AD RMS is one of the AD 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 or a group of servers that share certificates and licensing requests from their clients. Even though it is named cluster, it is different from a typical Windows failover cluster. The failover cluster needs at least...
