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Active Directory Rights Management Services SDK 2.1

Purpose

The Active Directory Rights Management Services SDK 2.1 platform enables developers to build applications that leverage Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) or Windows Azure Active Directory Rights Management to provide information protection. The AD RMS SDK 2.1 handles complex security practices such as key management, encryption and decryption processing and offers a simplified API for easy application development.

Developer audience

The AD RMS SDK 2.1, available from the AD RMS SDK 2.1 download page on the Microsoft download center, is used to create custom applications that enable rights management on digital assets and enforce terms-of-use for those assets. Knowledge of the C++ programming language is required.

For more information about this technology see our AD RMS Developer's Corner, the official blog of the Rights Management product team at Microsoft for developers working with information protection using AD RMS.

For answers to frequently asked questions, see the developers section of our AD RMS FAQ

Run-time requirements

For information about the run-time requirements for a particular programming element, see the Requirements section of the reference topic for that element.

In this section

Topic	Description
AD RMS overview	Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) is an information protection technology that helps safeguard digital information from unauthorized use.
Differences between AD RMS SDK and AD RMS SDK 2.1	AD RMS SDK 2.1 is a significant improvement over the original Active Directory Rights Management Services SDK.
Getting started with AD RMS SDK 2.1	The AD RMS SDK 2.1 platform enables developers to build applications that leverage AD RMS information protection.
Release notes	This topic contains important information about this release of the AD RMS SDK 2.1.
AD RMS developer notes	This section covers specific guidance for several important development scenarios.
AD RMS developer concepts	The topics in this section cover key concepts in AD RMS.
AD RMS components	The topics in this section describe the basic components of the AD RMS platform.
AD RMS how to topics	Step-by-step guidance for scenarios and tasks using the AD RMS SDK 2.1.
AD RMS reference	This section contains topics covering reference material for all of the API elements.
AD RMS Samples	This topic lists a set of samples using the AD RMS SDK 2.1, available at the MSDN Download Center.

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