Using Information Rights Management To protect your message with IRM, choose the Permission button sometime before sending it. | Team LiB Using Information Rights Management To protect your message with IRM choose the Permission button sometime before sending it. The Permission button is the envelope icon with the red circle on it as shown in Figure . Figure . Select the Permission button to enable IRM. The InfoBar message reminds you that the message has restricted permissions. The first time you use IRM either to send a restricted message or to read one the IRM software is downloaded from the Microsoft Office Web site and installed. It s about 340KB in size and shouldn t take more than a few minutes to download even on a dial-up connection. After the client software is installed a .NET passport is required to send or read messages with restricted permissions. If you don t have a passport for your email address you must get one to use IRM. The first time you use IRM the Passport Wizard opens and you can get a passport for your email address or associate your existing passport with the service and receive a rights management RM certificate. If you don t have a passport account for your email address the wizard leads you through signing up for a passport and associating it with the rights management service. If you use several different email addresses you ll need a .NET Passport and certificate for each address with which you send or receive protected messages. After the RM certificate is installed and you open the message you ll receive a warning that the Office program needs to connect to the RM servers to verify your identity see Figure . If you aren t signed in to the Passport service the passport logon dialog displays. Figure . Before opening an RM-protected message your credentials must be verified. If the address doesn t match the address used on the message Outlook will display a message asking whether you want to open it using a different set of credentials. Answering Yes opens the Select User dialog for you to choose a different passport. When you need to .
