{"id":119397,"date":"2021-11-09T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=119397"},"modified":"2021-11-08T21:43:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T02:43:19","slug":"now-this-is-the-army-we-all-know-and-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=119397","title":{"rendered":"Now this is the Army we all know and love"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a brilliant cost-savings measure that only the US Army could do, they have not gotten enough Microsoft Office 365 licenses for all of the Army’s soldiers and civilians to have their own accounts. Looks like they’re only planning on giving out Army.mil Email addresses to NCOs and officers.<\/p>\n

Now how will a junior enlisted soldier know they missed a dental appointment, they need to renew their SHARP training, or be able to complete any suicide awareness computer based training?<\/p>\n

First Sergeants will have to once again meet their troops face-to-face instead of conducting business by passive-aggressive Email. We are not prepared for this.<\/p>\n

Jeff LPH 3 sends in an Army Times report<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The Army\u2019s ongoing adoption of Microsoft-based email, teleconferencing and collaboration services for its \u201cArmy 365? platform could leave hundreds of thousands of soldiers, civilians and contractors without official email access, Army Times has confirmed.<\/p>\n

The issue stems from the Army opting to purchase individual Microsoft 365 licenses rather than providing them to all of the service\u2019s personnel. The Army has to pay for each individual license, meaning the arrangement could save money, a source familiar with the transition explained.<\/p>\n

Right now, the Army\u2019s plan is to grant licenses \u2014 and thus new Army.mil email addresses \u2014 only to NCOs and officers, according to an interim licensing guidance memo issued by Lt. Gen. John Morrison Jr., the service\u2019s top uniformed IT official.<\/p>\n

Army Times obtained a copy of the memo from a source involved in implementing the email transition.<\/p>\n

\u201cCommands will have to make some hard choices,\u201d wrote Col. Joseph Gardner, a senior officer responsible for overseeing the platform\u2019s rollout across the force, in a separate email explaining the license distributions last month. Army Times obtained a copy of the email.<\/p>\n

Currently the Army has only procured 950,000 licenses, the memo stated. Those are intended to cover the needs of soldiers, civilians and contractors.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not yet clear how many licenses will go to each personnel category \u2014 the Army is allowing subordinate commands to oversee the distribution process.<\/p>\n

One thing is clear: the Army had 1,008,373 troops as of Sept. 30, and the service has hundreds of thousands of civilians and contractors who will also require email and collaborative platform access.<\/p>\n

Army officials did not respond to questions from Army Times before this article\u2019s publication deadline.<\/p>\n

The service\u2019s existing Defense Enterprise Email service provides official, secure email access for all Army personnel. But the platform is scheduled to go offline for the Army in March 2022, officials have said.<\/p>\n

Junior enlisted troops whose duties necessitate email access will need to have an exception to policy approved by the first colonel in their chain of command, according to the memo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More at the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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