Accessing your military email has never been easier

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All I had to do was:

  1. An IT User Agreement
  2. Cyber Awareness
  3. Request an account through my unit S6.
  4. Receive emails for Mobile Connect and Hypori to my military email.
  5. Scan QR Code for Mobile Connect and be sure to click 2FA rather than just passcode.
  6. Sign into Hypori and create the account on my cell phone.
  7. Receive Army 365 AVD Onboarding Email.
  8. Download the Microsoft Remote Desktop app to my personal computer.
  9. Add the Azure Workspace to the application.
  10. Sign into my .mil, this time from the Remote Desktop app.
  11. Pick a server.
  12. Re-verify my 365 account.
  13. Sign into the PureBred website through AVD using my CAC.
  14. Select my device.
  15. Generate a one time password.
  16. Agree to terms of service.
  17. Sign into Purebred registration application through the Hypori phone client.
  18. Insert and confirm OTP.
  19. Open Outlook.
  20. Add email account.
  21. Select Purebred PIV
  22. Profit

My reward is now a slow, android based virtual client on my iPhone that I will never tell my unit that I have access to because they already can’t respect professional work/home boundaries. I can’t believe more people haven’t signed up before the June deadline for NIPR access on personal devices.

One Commissary sushi and a margarita, please and thank you.

Edit: fixed numbering.

2

I couldn’t even read all that so I’m most definitely never going to do it

3

My unit just asked if I would be able to set up mobile email, after looking at this post, I think I’ll tell them it’s not gonna happen

4

I don’t see a step to print your cyber security training certificate. Please go back and retake the course, post completion please show your first line leader to report to top and place it in your I love me book.

5

Hey, at least Adobe cuts us a deal on Acrobat subscriptions, right? Right?

6

If the army wants me to have email access on my phone, then the army can issue me a phone.

7

Cool cries in Health.mil

8

I heard a one star say AVD is the solution to the guard not having enough gov computers. Just use your own Hotspot and your personal device to complete unit work.

9

Something something zero trust idk do your cyber awareness again it’s not reflecting in the system

10

As a company Commander, this is honestly fantastic. I just got mine set up this morning and I don’t regret it.

I don’t know if I’m going to let anyone know that I have it set up, so there it is.

11

Wait, I’ve been TDY for 2.5 months and haven’t been super up-to-date on army happenings.

Email is NIPR only now? If you want to access it on a personal computer/phone you need to sign up for this thing? When is the deadline?

12

Civilian job.

  1. Receive iPad.
  2. Sticker with username/password on back.
  3. Leave company phone and iPad in locker because it is against union rules to conduct any business off the clock.
  4. Profit.
13

have you tried being a brigade commander and above and make someone else do it for you :thinking:

14

Don’t forget if you got a .usa email you’ll need a commander’s memo and repeat the entire process AGAIN

15

To their credit I’ve been using it since the pilot and it is definitely a lot faster. They also added the outlook app which was way better than that other pile of trash. Editing/signing pdfs still needs some improvement. Calling people on Teams anywhere is dope though, seems like the days when we had commercial Teams during COVID.

16

Just log on to AVD on a desktop browser. Takes like five minutes.

17

You have two step 16

18

I had a great XO that just couldn’t access .mil stuff so I did exactly this and had to jump through so many God damn hoops to get her a laptop to help her get access to stuff. Couldn’t even get to step 5 and it would be weeks in between us talking and finding out what the next steps were. It was a pain in the ass for me when I was on ADOS orders.

She said fuck this and went AGR in another state. I do not blame her one bit.

19

Oh boy I can’t wait until this rolls out for the reserve and natty guard units. None of these guys are going to set this up. cries in full-timer

20

One of the only days in the Army that made me drunk cry was spending the entire day trying to access my military email for the first time in order to make an Army Ignited account. I didn’t even get anyone on the help desk after waiting on hold for over three hours.