June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
742 pages
18h 29m
English
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The AD RMS cluster
The AD RMS cluster is a single RMS server or a group of servers that share certificates and licensing requests from their clients. Even though it is named as a cluster, it is different from a typical Windows failover cluster term. The failover cluster needs at least two nodes. However, with RMS even though it has single server it becomes a cluster. But there is one requirement for the AD RMS cluster if there are multiple servers involved. AD RMS supports two types of databases similar to AD FS. By default, it uses the Windows Internal Database (WID), and it also supports the Microsoft SQL Server database. If the AD RMS cluster is going to have multiple servers, it must use the MS SQL database on a separate server.
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