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Thurston County IT outlines phased plan to meet state .gov requirement; staffing and cost uncertainties remain
Summary
IT staff told commissioners the county must move to a .gov domain by July 2027, has secured $194,000 in initial grant funding and received a phase‑1 vendor proposal for about $149,500; staff warned migration could disrupt logins, applications and email without careful phased work and communication.
Thurston County IT staff on March 4 briefed the Board of County Commissioners on a state requirement that counties migrate to a .gov domain by July 2027 and outlined a three‑phase plan to limit disruption.
Sherry Elk, the county's IT director, and Evan Hallmark, network supervisor, described the technical scope: authentication systems, Azure Active Directory dependencies, file‑share and database permissions, and numerous applications with hard‑coded domain references that must be found and reconfigured. "Migrating from one domain to another is not just changing the…
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