AD-RMS with SharePoint Document Access from Internet

Question

Hi Guys,
I have a single AD-RMS Server running on 2008 R2 and SQL 2008 R2
I have sharePoint 2010 Published to Internet.
I need to integrate AD-RMS with SharePoint instep to provide access for my docuements through SHarepoint internet.
My Questions:
Using my single AD-RMS Server with SharePoint Intergration can all AD users access SharePoint from outside to be able to open encrypted documents?
Is this artical (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee259515(WS.10).aspx) also work on SP 2010? is it the same steps?
Do I need AD FS in my case?
Do I need SSO in my case?
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi Jean,
1. to make that working the Internet users need to authenticate against the RMS server as well. So you need to publish this server. Depending on your network policy you can just reverse proxy the RMS server or in a more complex scenario to have another server
in a DMZ AD to facilitate that. Because you publish the Sharepoint Server to the Internet I assume you do not have a complex scenario.
I hope you have chosen the URL for the RMS cluster wisely, so that it can be address from the Internet.
2. I am not a big Sharepoint guy, but it looks familiar.
3. No, you don't.
4. No, but would be nice if the users do not have to authenticate twice. Will require a reverse proxy, e.g. TMG (what is discontinued) or similar.
Hope it helps,
Lutz