Enabling IRM Support on an Individual Document Library

After enabled in SharePoint Central Admin, IRM protection can be enabled on individual document libraries within the farm by any site administrator who has full rights to the document library. To enable IRM protection on an individual document library, perform the following steps:

1. Within a SharePoint site, select a document library.
2. From the Ribbon, choose Library Tools, Library, and then click the button for Library Settings.
3. Under Permissions and Management, choose Information Rights Management.
4. Check the Restrict Permission to Documents in This Library on Download box, as shown in Figure 17.19. Enter the remaining fields depending on how the policy will be applied, whether there is expiration of policy, whether readers to the site can print or access content programmatically, and so on. Click OK.

   Figure 17.19. Enabling IRM support on a SharePoint document library.

   

Once enabled, all current documents and future documents in that document library will have the rights protection policy chosen added to them as they are viewed or modified from within the SharePoint Site. To turn off rights protection, just go back into the document library settings and uncheck the box for IRM. This will remove IRM protection for all documents within the library.