UAS IT Helpdesk
Welcome
The Helpdesk is a regional support center that provides technical support and training for students, faculty, and staff, through our call center and via email.
Please continue to contact the Helpdesk after hours. Callers may leave a voicemail or choose to be redirected to the Statewide Office of Information Technology. We will respond to voicemail on our next business day.
Contact Information
Mailing Address
Regional IT Helpdesk11066 Auke Lake Way
Juneau, AK 99801
Mailstop: HB5
Resources
Instructional Videos
A repository of our visual instructions for all kinds of content: Campus Resources, Coursework, Cybersecurity, and more.
Services Dashboard
A dashboard of critical systems at UAS, for current and historical context.
IT FAQ
All of the most frequently asked questions, all in one place.
Notifications
Our Helpdesk weblog and notifications for ongoing issues, outages, and maintenance. For past notifications, view our notifications archive.
RESOLVED: System Outage 12/9/25
As of 5:20 PM on Tuesday the 9th, all of Juneau experienced a broad power outage. Non-critical UAS systems powered down after a prolonged outage. After 3.5 hours, power was restored to the city. All UAS systems were restored successfullly.
Scheduled Maintenance: Network Outages during the Winter Break, 12/29-12/31
Over the Winter Break (December 25th to January 4th) there will be Network Outages during the following three days due to Network Upgrades
- On Monday, 29th: Network Outage affecting Wifi, Phones, and Internet up to an hour each in the following buildings:
- Stover
- Anderson
- Aakw Ta Hit
- Jones
- JPH
- Novatney
- Mourant
- Egan Wing
- Egan Library
- Pump House
- Whitehead
- On Tuesday, 30th: Network Outage affecting Wifi, Phones and internet up to an hour each in the following buildings:
- Hendrickson
- Soboleff
- REC Center
- Housing Lodge
- Banfield
- Apartments A-G
- TEC
- Servers
- Hendrickson Annex
- On Wednesday, 31st: Wifi Outage up to 20 minutes in each building:
- All buildings
System Outage: Campus Phones 11/6/25
As of 11:30 AM, calls to or from campus lines are unavailable. Callers receive a recorded message that the "call cannot be completed at this time". Internal calls are still functional. Technicians are investigating.
UPDATE: As of 2:30 PM, all calls appear to be functional. Technicians continue to monitor the situation.
RESOLVED: As of Monday, there have been no issued logged with calls being unable to connect in or out. Technicians believe this issue resolved.
Service Restored: UA Blackboard 10/20/25
As of Tuesday morning, all Blackboard services have been restored from the AWS outage on Monday. Technicians confirmed full functionality after overnight observation.
More information can be found through Blackboard's Status page of the incident: https://status.blackboard.com/incidents/g8bt1pvmtmh9
UPDATE: Service Impacted: Networking 10/2/25
Users are reporting difficulties accessing all network resources on and off campus. This affects general internet access from campus computers, VPN, UA Online, UA Google, and other resources that require UA login, including Blackboard.
Statewide will update their notifications at status.alaska.edu.
UPDATE
As of 3:30 PM, all networking issues appear resolved.