RMS Viewer For Mac

RMS Viewer is a free OS X application that allows you to open documents protected by Microsoft Windows Rights Management. The app offers a minimalistic user interface and very few functions to navigate the documents.

It is important to note that you need to enter your RMS Rendering Server account credentials (server name, username and passwords) before being able to open these types of documents.

The reason for this, as you may know, is that Microsoft created WIRM to encrypt common office documents that are designed to be used only on dedicated enrolled PCs.

Since users naturally need to access RMS documents on mobile devices, too, and not just the desktop PC, Microsoft provided a way to open them on other devices via the RMS Rendering Server.

The RMS Viewer application for the Mac acts as a simple client for accessing RMS Rendering Servers, and thus for viewing RMS documents.

After logging into the server, the RMS Viewer app decrypts and converts the document in order to be viewable on your Mac. If you have proper access, the document reveals itself to you. The document is stored on your device for later usage.

The RMS Viewer application features a plain-looking interface that helps you focus more on the contents of the document. It comes with standard navigational buttons on the toolbar at the top: next / previous page, zoom in / out and a drop-down menu to choose a document.

In conclusion, RMS Viewer is just a lightweight OS X tool that can be used to connect to the RMS Rendering Server. This helps users who have permission to view RMS documents to open them.