What? No mention of mobile devices in this streamlined force? A faster network running on gold master machines that take 8 minutes to boot do us no good.

Mr. Krieger,

Do you know why it was made a requirement to utilize NIPRnet (connection from .MIL nodes to DISA servers) for Enterprise E-mail acess? Previously, remote sites could access the local installation Exchange via a secured proxy not requiring VPN, however the new EE DISA system requires remote offices / users / tdy / roadwarrior / WAH users to VPN to their parent installation to access the Outlook client Enterprise E-mail. Now I understand OWA is available via CAC authentication, however users that utilize the client for .PST lack that ability (primarily remote office locations that aren't on NIPRnet). While many typical business/military users won't require .PST due to the increase in mailbox size, many remote offices will. Using full-time VPN connectivity for entire remote offices not only puts a strain on the installation being tunneled into, but primarily severly handicaps operational capability for the remote office due to the handful of problems VPN causes, such as limited bandwidth speed, large amounts of data being transferring causing software applications to freeze/not respond, lack of local network resouces such as NAS and network printers, etc..

Thank you for any clarification you can provide.

Best regards,

Jeff

Excellent initiative Army wide. Like any new innovative technology we exploit, it will have hiccups and minor issues to begin with but we will benefit in the long haul if we persist, learn, understand, trial and error and stay the course!!

We appreciate your enthusiasm! Enterprise Collaboration Services is following the same governance recently established for Enterprise Email. We are working with the Office of Business Transformation, ASA(ALT), and
PEO-EIS.

Early adopters of ECS could experience a pause of several months while we align with the governance structure. The ECS team will be posting updates to their website as we make progress. The site is available to all DoD CAC
holders, using their email certificate: west.esps.disa.mil/ECS.

We look forward to providing improved enterprise collaboration and content management capabilities throughout the Army.