Information Rights Management 607 Information Rights Management Information Rights Management (IRM) was introduced to the Microsoft Office suite (e.g., for Word and Excel) in version 2003 and was introduced to InfoPath in the 2007 release, providing IRM for both the form template and the form itself. In InfoPath 2010, the ability to set IRM on the form tem- plate was removed from the product, but you can still set IRM on forms. Clearly IRM on a form limits who can open the form to fill it out (or just to open it as read-only). In InfoPath Designer, you can set default IRM per- missions on a form. So when a new form is created from a form template for filling, the resulting form has those IRM permissions already defined. Let's take a closer look at how we can use IRM with our forms. IRM Is Not a Security Feature IRM is not meant to be a complete security solution for forms and form templates. For example, a user who is denied copy and print rights can always use a camera to capture the screen. Then he or she can use optical character recognition software to get the content back into an electronic format, which then is obviously not restricted. NOTE IRM Requires Windows Rights Management Service (RMS) To use IRM with InfoPath, you should have access to a Windows 2003 Server or more recent version running RMS. If you don't have access to RMS on your network, InfoPath will ask if you would like to use a free RMS service provided by Microsoft on the Internet. Forms Services Forms Services does not support IRM permission on either forms or form templates. In fact, a browser-enabled form template disallows IRM per- mission altogether.