opening a powerpoint document which is protected by Information Rights Management

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Apr 18, 2010, 6:47:43 PM4/18/10

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We have a Powerpoint 2007 document which some former employee in our
office created before he left a year ago. Now, we need to open it and
when we try it, the document mentions you don't have read permission for
this. Do you want to obtain permission from that person's organizational
email address which does not exist as he has left.
We tried to contact the former employee who does not have that document
with him at present.

Is there any way we can open the document? I don't know enough about
Information Rights Management(IRM), but understand like PGP it is a tool
to restrict permissions.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Echo S

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Apr 18, 2010, 7:43:20 PM4/18/10

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I'd probably try having IT reinstate his email address, then when you open
the file, request read permissions from the author. Then log onto that newly
created email address and give the read permissions.

You may have to set up some IRM credentials as though you were the previous
employee. You'd probably need to know the password to the Windows Live ID
that's associated with his corporate email account, though. Do you think he
might remember that?

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Apr 18, 2010, 8:05:32 PM4/18/10

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On 4/18/2010 7:43 PM, Echo S wrote:
> I'd probably try having IT reinstate his email address, then when you
> open the file, request read permissions from the author.

Generally, they(main IT dept) create a email account when a new employee
comes and remove it when he is gone. Don't know if they will or can(they
may have to recreate a new account) reinstate his email address.

>Then log onto
> that newly created email address and give the read permissions.
>
> You may have to set up some IRM credentials as though you were the
> previous employee. You'd probably need to know the password to the
> Windows Live ID that's associated with his corporate email account,
> though. Do you think he might remember that?

Have to check with him on that. If not, is there no other way?

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Apr 18, 2010, 8:57:45 PM4/18/10

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Hm. I don't know of any way around this type of restricted permission,
sorry.

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Apr 18, 2010, 9:21:57 PM4/18/10

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On 4/18/2010 8:57 PM, Echo S wrote:
> Hm. I don't know of any way around this type of restricted permission,
> sorry.
>

That's fine. Thanks for your time.