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Newton End of Year Instructions - 20202021-2021 2022 School Year

The following document will guide you through the End of Year procedure for Newton.

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Please read the following document in its entirety before attempting the End of Year procedure.

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Microsoft Task Scheduler

MCS Software highly recommends disabling ALL scheduled jobs in the Microsoft Task Scheduler, especially enrollment system updates, prior to running the End of Year process. Please confirm this is complete prior to proceeding further. You should consider re-enabling scheduled jobs when you initiate the Beginning of Year process. For more information, refer to the Beginning of Year documentation.

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(tick) Do I need to be running a particular version to perform an End of Year?
Version number 1213.0.0 or higher is recommended.

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  • If your District is participating in the summer feeding program or emergency feeding due to COVID-19, you may wish to wait until that session has completed to run been completedbefore running your End-of-Year process.

  • The End of Year in DataCenter is recommended before running End of Year in Newton. The Enable End-of-Year Process checkbox in the last year’s DataCenter database (found under Admin → District Setup) must be selected in order to run the End of Year in Newton.
    (info) This should already be enabled in last year's DataCenter database if you have completed End of Year in DataCenter.

  • It is normal to see critical alerts once the End of Year process has been completed.  This occurs because the system's Scheduled Jobs have not yet been completed for the new database.  The critical alerts will clear once the scheduled jobs have been completed (typically at midnight) or you may choose to manually run Scheduled Jobs after you have completed the end of year processes.

(tick) Are there are measures I need to take if I use MySchoolBucks (MSB)?
No. It is not necessary to perform any functions in MySchoolBucks for End of Year/Beginning of Year process in Newton. However, after running End of Year in Newton, it may take up to 30 minutes for old transactions to be cleared from the system.

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  1. From the Admin & Maintenance tab, locate Item in the ribbon. Then, select Items.

  2. Place a checkmark in the Inactive column next to the item to be removed. Then, click Save & Close.

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Deactivate Menus

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If you remove any menus, be sure to check Admin & Maintenance Menu → Menu Configurations to make sure that valid breakfast and lunch menus exist.

  1. From the Admin & Maintenance tab, locate Menu in the ribbon.  Then, select Menus.

  2. Select the menu that needs to be inactivated deactivated from the list and click Edit.

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    In the Edit Menu window, check the Inactive box. Then, click Save & Close.

  4. The menu should now be marked as inactive.

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