Remove an Outlook Protection Rule

Using Microsoft Outlook protection rules, you can protect messages with Information Rights Management (IRM) by applying an Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) template in Outlook 2010 before the messages are sent. To prevent an Outlook protection rule from being applied, you can disable the rule. Removing an Outlook protection rule removes the rule definition from Active Directory.

Looking for other management tasks related to IRM? Check out Managing Information Rights Management.

Use the Shell to remove an Outlook protection rule

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Rights protection" entry in the Messaging Policy and Compliance Permissions topic.

This example removes the Outlook protection rule OPR-DG-Finance.

Remove-OutlookProtectionRule -Identity "OPR-DG-Finance"

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Remove-OutlookProtectionRule.

Use the Shell to remove all Outlook protection rules

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Rights protection" entry in the Messaging Policy and Compliance Permissions topic.

This example removes all Outlook protection rules in the Exchange organization.

Get-OutlookProtectionRule | Remove-OutlookProtectionRule

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-OutlookProtectionRule and Remove-OutlookProtectionRule.

Other Tasks

After you remove an Outlook protection rule, you may also want to create an Outlook protection rule. For detailed steps, see Create an Outlook Protection Rule.