Active Directory Rights Management Services
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Active Directory Rights Management Services is a Microsoft server technology that protects sensitive information through encryption, access control, and usage policies integrated with Active Directory.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AD RMS | 1 |
| Active Directory Rights Management Services canonical | 1 |
| Azure Information Protection P1 | 1 |
| Azure Rights Management | 1 |
| Windows Rights Management Services | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1719754 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Active Directory Rights Management Services Context triple: [Active Directory, component, Active Directory Rights Management Services]
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A.
Microsoft Office encryption (legacy)
Microsoft Office encryption (legacy) refers to the older, less secure document protection system in early Office versions that relied on the RC4 stream cipher and is now considered cryptographically weak.
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B.
Active Directory
Active Directory is Microsoft's centralized directory and identity management service used to authenticate and authorize users, computers, and resources in Windows-based networks.
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C.
BitLocker (device encryption variant)
BitLocker (device encryption variant) is a streamlined, automatic disk encryption feature designed for certain Windows devices, particularly tablets and lightweight PCs, to protect data by encrypting the system drive with minimal user configuration.
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D.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a cloud-based email and collaboration security solution that protects Microsoft 365 users from phishing, malware, and other advanced threats.
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E.
KMS
KMS is the Dutch abbreviation for the Royal Military Academy in Belgium, the institution responsible for training officers for the Belgian Armed Forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Active Directory Rights Management Services Target entity description: Active Directory Rights Management Services is a Microsoft server technology that protects sensitive information through encryption, access control, and usage policies integrated with Active Directory.
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A.
Microsoft Office encryption (legacy)
Microsoft Office encryption (legacy) refers to the older, less secure document protection system in early Office versions that relied on the RC4 stream cipher and is now considered cryptographically weak.
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B.
Active Directory
Active Directory is Microsoft's centralized directory and identity management service used to authenticate and authorize users, computers, and resources in Windows-based networks.
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C.
BitLocker (device encryption variant)
BitLocker (device encryption variant) is a streamlined, automatic disk encryption feature designed for certain Windows devices, particularly tablets and lightweight PCs, to protect data by encrypting the system drive with minimal user configuration.
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D.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a cloud-based email and collaboration security solution that protects Microsoft 365 users from phishing, malware, and other advanced threats.
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E.
KMS
KMS is the Dutch abbreviation for the Royal Military Academy in Belgium, the institution responsible for training officers for the Belgian Armed Forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Microsoft server role
ⓘ
enterprise security product ⓘ information rights management technology ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Active Directory Rights Management Services
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
AD RMS
|
| category |
access control system
ⓘ
enterprise information protection ⓘ |
| controls |
from where users can access protected content
ⓘ
how long users can access protected content ⓘ what users can do with protected content ⓘ who can access protected content ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| feature |
expiration policies
ⓘ
federation support ⓘ logging and auditing ⓘ offline access policies ⓘ rights policy templates ⓘ service connection point in Active Directory ⓘ super user rights ⓘ trusted publishing domain ⓘ trusted user domain ⓘ user and group-based access control ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Active Directory
ⓘ
surface form:
Active Directory Domain Services
Microsoft Exchange Server ⓘ
surface form:
Exchange Server
Microsoft Office ⓘ SharePoint ⓘ
surface form:
SharePoint Server
Windows clients ⓘ |
| partOf | Windows Server ⓘ |
| previousName |
Active Directory Rights Management Services
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Rights Management Services
|
| protects |
Microsoft Office documents
ⓘ
Outlook email messages ⓘ SharePoint content ⓘ XPS documents ⓘ file shares ⓘ |
| provides |
persistent protection for documents
ⓘ
persistent protection for emails ⓘ persistent protection for files ⓘ |
| requires |
Active Directory infrastructure
ⓘ
Windows Server ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Server operating system
|
| securityGoal |
enforce corporate usage policies on documents and emails
ⓘ
prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information ⓘ |
| successor |
Azure Information Protection
ⓘ
Active Directory Rights Management Services self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Azure Rights Management
|
| supports |
data loss prevention strategies
ⓘ
federated identity scenarios ⓘ information protection ⓘ on-premises deployment ⓘ rights management ⓘ |
| uses |
access control
ⓘ
encryption ⓘ usage policies ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Active Directory Rights Management Services Description of subject: Active Directory Rights Management Services is a Microsoft server technology that protects sensitive information through encryption, access control, and usage policies integrated with Active Directory.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Azure Information Protection P1
Active Directory Rights Management Services
→
previousName
→
Active Directory Rights Management Services
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Windows Rights Management Services
Active Directory Rights Management Services
→
abbreviation
→
Active Directory Rights Management Services
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
AD RMS
Active Directory Rights Management Services
→
successor
→
Active Directory Rights Management Services
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Azure Rights Management