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We have enabled Information Rights Management (IRM) on a document library in SharePoint Server 2019. In the modern UI, users are able to preview files and images even though they are IRM-protected, and the previews are not encrypted.
We would like to control these previews by either:
Is there a way to achieve this in SharePoint Server 2019, and if so, what are the recommended approaches or configurations for this?
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Hi @PratikSavla,
Information Rights Management (IRM) policies protect sensitive content from unauthorized users by preventing users from printing or saving copies of a file. Currently there is no such function to display a template file using IRM.
As a workaround, you could add the related column as a label in information management policy to document content type, when you open, download or print the file using this content type, the label will exist.
For detailed information, please refer to follwoing article, this is a sample about displaying version column, you could change it to createdby column.
https://www.ilikesharepoint.de/2014/06/sharepoint-display-sp-version-number-in-a-word-document/
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Hi @RaytheonXie_MSFT ,
Since we have enabled IRM on the library we would like to prevent the preview of the file as it shows the unencrypted file which does not align with our IRM requirements.
Hi @PratikSavla,
Since IRM could only protect files from download and print. And I feel regretful to inform you that it turns out to be a by-design one. It is highly recommended that you can raise a new ticket on customers’ feedback. And I will vote the ticket for you. Thanks for your understanding.
Hi @PratikSavla,
Would you tell me whether your issue has been resolved or have any update? If you have any questions or progress, you can contact me in time.
Hi @PratikSavla,
I am checking to see how things are going there on this issue.
Hi @PratikSavla,
Information Rights Management (IRM) policies protect sensitive content from unauthorized users by preventing users from printing or saving copies of a file. Currently there is no such setting to display a template when opening a file.
As a workaround, you could add the related column as a label in information management policy to document content type, when you open, download or print the file using this content type, the label will exist.
For detailed information, please refer to follwoing article, this is a sample about displaying version column, you could change it to createdby column.
https://www.ilikesharepoint.de/2014/06/sharepoint-display-sp-version-number-in-a-word-document/
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