
It looks like ""fully qualified network user name and password" is Mac-speak for user principal name (UPN). What is this prompt looking for? Folks enter email addresses (sometimes this works) and others try the DOMAIN\User format but thatįails. The "fully qualified network user name and password" prompt is the problematic one, in my limited exposure to these calls. Thus we allow RMS to know the credentials the user wishes to use and the client may discover the RMS server. We are locating the user in AD so we may locate the RMS server (from AD). The first prompt appears to have two purposes.
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(Note the "Save password in my Mac OS keychain" check box).

These credentials are in the "DOMAIN\username" format. The second prompt is asking for credentials for the RMS URL being accessed. The first prompt asks for your "fully qualified network user name and password." The suggested format is " This appear to be asking for the user UPN (more In the sample screen shots below Microsoft Word from Office 2011 for Mac was used. Hence the differences in behavior between the two client types.īack to the two prompts. You can't prevent all the prompts, but after an inital few they may be suppressed.Īs an aside, it is my opinion that even though a Mac client may be "joined" to a Microsoft Active Directory domain, it is not the same as a Windows native client joined to the domain. Is there a way to suppress all these prompts on an Office 2011 for Mac client? The answer is sort of.

When a properly configured* Windows client first interacts with a properly configured** AD RMS server no prompts are received. What these prompts are asking for an why serve two purposes.

The first time an Office for Mac 2011 client attempts to create/consume IRM protected content two credential prompts are encountered.
