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Overview of the RMS 2.1 and 4.2 SDKs

Two active generations of RMS SDKs are available to developers and used for the following developments:

Microsoft Rights Management SDK 4.2 for Android, iOS/macOS, Windows devices, and Linux
Microsoft Rights Management SDK 2.1 for Windows Desktop Client
AD RMS SDK is superseded

The following improvements were included with the 4.2 version:

Hybrid support AD RMS and Azure RMS (AD RMS' mobile device extension is needed to make AD RMS available on mobile devices and provides the required authentication methods)
Access protected content offline
Bring your authentication library
Bring your user interface
Redesigned API

You can use the following example design to develop your application:

Example of design ...

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