These days I’ve been studying an RMS environment and I wanted to test some clients withouth having to create an SCP because I didn0t want that all the clients I had in my environment to connect to the RMS server. So there’s a little trick you can useon your clients in order to have them connected to the RMS.

In Office 2007 applications, you can do the following registry trick, just create the keys.

Location:HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0CommonDRM
String:CorpLicenseServer
Value:< http://url.to.rms/_wmcs/Licensing>

Location:HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0CommonDRM
String:CorpCertificationServer
Value:<http://url.to.rms/_wmcs/Certification>

*NOTE* change the 12.0 to an 11.0 of you are using Office 2003 **

or these keys for global RMS supremacy on the machine:

Location:HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftMSDRMServiceLocationActivation
Reg_Sz: default
Value:<http://url.to.rms/_wmcs/Certification>

Location:HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftMSDRMServiceLocationEnterprisePublishing
Reg_Sz: default
Value:<http://url.to.rms/_wmcs/Licensing>

Useful link: http://blogs.technet.com/rmssupp/archive/2007/07/13/rms-testing-rms-without-modifying-the-ad.aspx