Security
Date Created: February 06 2012
Last Updated: February 06 2012
03/14/2012 01:09 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Remove Digital Signatures
When your PowerPoint presentation is digitally signed and shared, it helps to validate your identity. However, at times you may want to remove a digital signature attached to your PowerPoint presentation for several reasons -- you may want it to be signed by someone else, or maybe there's no need to for a particular presentation to be signed any more. A digital signature can be easily removed from your presentation.
03/11/2012 10:03 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Removing Certificates in Internet Explorer
In a previous tutorial, you learned how you can create a self-signed digital certificate outside PowerPoint, and then mark this as a trusted certificate. This way you can create multiple trusted or non trusted certificates, and use them within PowerPoint or even other Microsoft Office applications. Although these certificates can be used in PowerPoint, you cannot remove these certificates from within PowerPoint. In this tutorial you'll learn how to remove any of the certificate(s) from the system, through Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser -- note that once a certificate is removed, it will be not available to be used within PowerPoint or any other Microsoft Office application.
03/09/2012 01:42 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Enable Trusted Certificates
Now that you know how you can create a self-signed digital certificate outside PowerPoint, you will soon discover that these certificates are not trusted. This means that you can send these non-trusted certificates only to known people who are confident that the sender is the actual originator (or author) of the document. However, you can provide the recipients a certain level of confidence by converting these to trusted certificates. In this tutorial you'll learn to stamp a self-signed certificate as trusted within PowerPoint.
03/08/2012 06:31 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Creating Digital Certificates Outside PowerPoint
We have already explored how you can create a basic digital signature right within PowerPoint 2010 -- and how you can sign your presentation. Each signature is contained inside a digital certificate. Digital certificates, also known as digital IDs can either be self-signed (as explained in our Acquire or Create a Digital Signature in PowerPoint 2010 tutorial) or issued by Certificate Authority within an organization. Although PowerPoint lets you create a certificate, it does not let you create multiple certificates -- to do that, you can create a digital certificate outside PowerPoint.
03/02/2012 05:13 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Acquire or Create a Digital Signature
You have already explored what a digital signature is, and how a digital signature can be important for use in PowerPoint presentations. To digitally sign a presentation, you need a digital certificate. If you try to digitally sign any presentation without a digital certificate in PowerPoint 2010, you are prompted to acquire or create a digital signature. In this tutorial we will explore how you can both acquire or create a digital signature.
02/27/2012 01:27 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Get Started with a Digital Signature
A digital signature or ID is more commonly known as a digital certificate. Digital IDs help to validate your identity, and they can be used to sign important documents including PowerPoint presentations. As far as PowerPoint is concerned, a digital certificate is necessary for a digital signature because it provides the key that can be associated with a digital signature. Digital certificates make it possible for digital signatures to be used as a way to authenticate digital information. In this tutorial we will show you how to add a digital signature in PowerPoint 2010.
02/22/2012 09:08 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Opening WRM Protected Files
In previous tutorials you have learned to sign up for Windows Rights Management (WRM), use WRM to set permissions for other users, and how you can set advanced WRM permissions. However, these scenarios only work for those who create and distribute WRM protected files -- how you use WRM if you are a recipient of a protected file is something that we will explore in this tutorial. You will learn how to open a WRM protected file as a permitted user.
02/20/2012 10:31 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Advanced WRM Permissions
You have learned to sign up for Windows Rights Management (WRM) in a previous tutorial. Once you are signed up, you can provide permissions using WRM from within PowerPoint 2010. In this tutorial you will learn how to revoke permissions, add new permissions, and also create custom permission levels. For any of the permissions to work, users need to be connected online so that the WRM servers can be accessed for authentication. So, make sure you are connected online, and thereafter follow these steps.
02/16/2012 08:40 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Using Windows Rights Management
We already explored how you can get started with Information Rights Management (IRM) in PowerPoint 2010 by first signing up for the Windows Rights Management (WRM) service. This service implements Microsoft's access controls for documents across Office 2010 applications such as PowerPoint, Word, Excel, etc. Once you have signed up for WRM, you can set permissions for all presentations that you need to share as long as you and all other recipients for your files fulfil these two requirements: All users have a Windows Live ID, and all users have signed up for WRM using their Windows Live IDs.
02/15/2012 12:49 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2010: Sign Up for Windows Rights Management
Microsoft has been providing a permissions system based on their Information Rights Management (IRM) concept for several years now, but with Office 2010 (including PowerPoint 2010), this whole concept has been implemented so intuitively that almost anyone can use IRM for their PowerPoint presentations and any other Office documents. Depending upon which version of Windows you use, you may need to download and install a Windows Rights Management module unless you use Windows 7 -- if you use the latter configuration, the entire IRM implementation process is painless. If you use an earlier version of Windows, such as XP or Vista -- then you might have to download and install a small WRM client that takes a minute or two.