After reading this article, faculty and staff should be able to apply Information Right Rights Management (IRM) from Outlook for their Office 365 email.
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Information Rights Management (IRM) is a way for users to protect sensitive information contained inside within emails. Usage rights are given to the email using Active Directory Rights Managements Services (AD RMS) and allows users to control rights, actions, and permissions (e.g., who can view the message , and restrictions on forwarding and printing). |
Apply IRM from Outlook
- Open new email from in Outlook > . IRM can be applied by going to Options, and then Permission.
- From here, you can choose Choose one of the four permission policies listed. The four policies are:
- The default setting, Unrestricted access: This is the default setting for permissions when you send an email. . Senders and recipients have full permissions to the email, including the rights to forward, edit, save, reply etc.
Selection of Do Not Forward: Recipients Forward allows recipients of these emails can Replyto reply, Edit edit and Save save the email but cannot not forward to internal or external users. The forward button on the email will be grayed out.
Selection of University of Connecticut – Confidential: This message will be option indicates the message is intended for users inside the organization only. The recipients will have full permissions to the email.
- Selection of University of Connecticut – Confidential View Only: This message will be indicates the message is intended for users inside the organization only, and they the message can only view itbe viewed. The recipients cannot save, edit, reply, or forward the email.
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