IT Announcements

UA/UAF website page check requirement

May 26, 2023

Beginning June 1, 2023, UAF and UA System pages on Omni CMS will require "page check" on edited pages prior to publishing. The page check tool checks for misspelled words, broken links and accessibility errors.

UAF and OIT Realign Duties to Better Serve Users

May 05, 2023

OIT and UAF have begun a realignment of IT resources. The reorganization will create a new UAF IT Department headed by VCAS Julie Queen, which will oversee mission-enabling resources for students, staff, and faculty at both UAF and the System Office. OIT under CITO Shier will shift its focus to enhancing IT efforts for the entire UA System, and will continue to support Cybersecurity and LAN for UAF.

Data Center outage May 13 and 20 will affect Internet, VPN access and shared drives

May 05, 2023

UAF Facilities Services will be conducting a planned maintenance power shutdown in the Butrovich Building to integrate a new Uninterruptible Power Supply for the Butrovich Data Center. The University of Alaska Fairbanks main campus and all UAF community campuses and outreach centers will not have Internet access during the planned maintenance shutdown periods. System Office and UAF users will also lose access to VPN services and any shared file servers hosted in the BDC.

Be mindful of copyright issues

April 21, 2023

Users of University of Alaska network and computing infrastructure must be mindful of and respect ownership of intellectual property and copyrighted information to which this infrastructure can provide access.

NOTICE: Planned UA Data Center Outages May 13 & May 20

April 21, 2023

UAF Facilities Services will be conducting a planned maintenance power shutdown in the Butrovich Building to integrate a new Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for the Butrovich Data Center (BDC). This will mean that many UA data systems served out of the BDC will be unavailable during the following timeframes on May 13 and May 20.

Making Social Media More Accessible

April 07, 2023

Social media is a quick and easy way to reach a lot of people - but it's also an easy way to exclude them. Here are some quick and easy ways to ensure your posts are welcoming and inclusive for all audiences.

NOTICE: Planned UA Data Center Outages May 13 & May 20

April 07, 2023

UAF Facilities Services will be conducting a planned maintenance power shutdown in the Butrovich Building to integrate a new Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for the Butrovich Data Center (BDC). This will mean that many UA data systems served out of the BDC will be unavailable during the following timeframes on May 13 and May 20.

Planned Butrovich Data Center outage May 13-20

March 16, 2023

UAF Facilities Services will be conducting a planned maintenance power shutdown in the Butrovich Building to integrate a new Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for the Butrovich Data Center (BDC). The University of Alaska Fairbanks main campus, including the Butrovich Building, and all UAF community campuses and outreach centers will not have Internet access during the planned maintenance shutdown.

Banner Cloud Migration Project Complete

March 16, 2023

Thank you to everyone for your patience and understanding while we underwent a successful transition of Banner and related Ellucian products to the cloud. Before 5 p.m. on March 13, teams in OIT, Finance, Student Services and Human Resources finished the testing and validation of Banner applications, and service resumed for all users.

Plan Ahead: Banner Outage coming March 9-14

March 03, 2023

Starting at 5 p.m. on March 9 the final phase of transitioning all Banner applications to the cloud will commence, with an expected completion date of no later than Tuesday, March 14. During that time, there will be absolutely no access to UAOnline or other Banner applications.