Hello all,
I'm looking to deploy RMS in a single forest multiple domain environment. Our local office is in the US (800 users) and our other domains are located in Europe (200 users) and Asia (1000 users). Each of the domains users will be creating documents, emails, etc that will need to be protected. We have T3 connections to both domains. I was looking to a possible distributed topology but Microsoft says:
"Building a distributed topology can increase administrative costs to your organization because a distributed topology is inherently more complex. If your organization has multiple licensing-only clusters and multiple forests, you may need to perform registry overrides on the RMS client computers to ensure that they make their licensing requests from the correct RMS server. Additionally, trust issues can occur across domains. This requires you to further configure your domains to enable the consumption of RMS-protected content."
also...
"Although you can set up the RMS installation to run only the certification services from the root cluster, as well as run the entire licensing service from one or more licensing-only clusters, this is not the typical configuration. Generally, you would increase the number of physical servers that are in the root cluster to meet performance and redundancy requirements instead of deploying separate licensing-only clusters (unless you need departmental support for licensing). "
I don't mind a basic topology setup, I would actuall prefer it, but I'm worried that the requests being made over our T3 to our US office might be too much.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Jon
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