I think you'll find you already have two accounts, I know the reasoning behind why they gave everyone two accounts but in practice it just causes confusion.

Originally Posted by delberto

I think you'll find you already have two accounts, I know the reasoning behind why they gave everyone two accounts but in practice it just causes confusion.

Nope. " Occaisional" users do not have a role account, nor access to civvy internet via DII. "Standard" users have both a role based account and a personal account and restricted access to civvy internet sites. If you need access to civvy internet as a TA bod then its easier to do at home - and without all the blocked sites.....heaven forfend that anyone used their own wireless enabled laptop or Blackberry to conduct their TA business while sat in a TAC, all sorts of security implications......

The question someone should be asking is why on earth the contractors were allowed to get away with big monthly charges for standard users internet access - and basic housekeeping like moving machines between taps. Sounds like MOD is paying twice the rate that you'd pay for reasonable broadband at home.

Originally Posted by saladin

Sounds like MOD is paying twice the rate that you'd pay for reasonable broadband at home.

the expense is reflected by the security of the system

Originally Posted by Dirtyfilthymech

Originally Posted by saladin

Sounds like MOD is paying twice the rate that you'd pay for reasonable broadband at home.

the expense is reflected by the security of the system

How? It's a proxy server FFS.

MSR

It's more the auditing, testing, re-testing and monitoring that tends to cost the money than the tech itself.

Originally Posted by saladin

If you need access to civvy internet as a TA bod then its easier to do at home - and without all the blocked sites.....heaven forfend that anyone used their own wireless enabled laptop or Blackberry to conduct their TA business while sat in a TAC, all sorts of security implications......

That's my issue with the system. I have an office, a desk, and a DII machine, but I have to wait until I go home to email anyone who has a civvy email address (i.e. all of my troop!). To an occasional user, it is a glorified typewriter.

Originally Posted by WhatAmIDoing

It's more the auditing, testing, re-testing and monitoring that tends to cost the money than the tech itself.

Then that is a central cost, why is it borne by each user at £25 per month?

Originally Posted by Bushnut

Originally Posted by saladin

If you need access to civvy internet as a TA bod then its easier to do at home - and without all the blocked sites.....heaven forfend that anyone used their own wireless enabled laptop or Blackberry to conduct their TA business while sat in a TAC, all sorts of security implications......

That's my issue with the system. I have an office, a desk, and a DII machine, but I have to wait until I go home to email anyone who has a civvy email address (i.e. all of my troop!). To an occasional user, it is a glorified typewriter.

Thank goodness for the PGP offer on armynet, or we would never get all the MS which JPA demands done

Originally Posted by msr

How? It's a proxy server FFS.

MSR

Ha, I was involved in the sale of the same proxy system as new technology, same name, slightly different department (in MOD) to a different government intranet.

Originally Posted by Bushnut

Originally Posted by saladin

If you need access to civvy internet as a TA bod then its easier to do at home - and without all the blocked sites.....heaven forfend that anyone used their own wireless enabled laptop or Blackberry to conduct their TA business while sat in a TAC, all sorts of security implications......

That's my issue with the system. I have an office, a desk, and a DII machine, but I have to wait until I go home to email anyone who has a civvy email address (i.e. all of my troop!). To an occasional user, it is a glorified typewriter.

Good to see you have a DII terminal, as for me I have the office, a desk, and an IGS account, but no terminal !!!

In answering your original question, yes TA can have an IGS account, but I had to justify why I needed one, and after that it was very much down to the bean counters to agree to fund it.

Justification was fairly easy, something like, "if the civvy storeman needs an account then surely the boss needs one as well", a few red faces, some gnashing of teeth and hey presto result.