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All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: In support of the CWS/CMS Release 9.5 deployment scheduled for Saturday, December 14, 2024, from 5:00 AM to 1:00 PM, the CARES-Live application will also not be available during this CWS/CMS scheduled deployment. Action Required If users experience any issues with CARES-Live outside of this scheduled outag...

The mandatory VB6 version of Release 9.5 will be implemented on Saturday, Saturday, December 14, 2024. Coexistent county CWSCMS.MSI file availability: The CWSCMS.MSI file will be available by Friday, December 6, 2024, for technical staff to begin testing the installation of the release.  The code will be located on the CWSDFSr share in the...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: EFFECTIVE December 16, 2024, CWS-CARES RELEASE 0.15 PRODUCTION RELEASE IS PLANNED TO MOVE INTO PRODUCTION The CWS-CARES team has scheduled release activity that will interrupt connectivity to the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, and Approval Process for pilot countie...

All Co-Existent County SPOCs and Technical Contacts: As requested, here is the list of patches that IBM tested and applied to the Dedicated County Workstations for November 2024: MS Windows 10 22H2 Patches MS24-NOV: Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 - Windows 10 Version 22H2 - KB5046613 (x64) Important  MS Windows 2016 (LTSB...

What is Impacted: CWS/CMS Application On Friday, December 6, 2024, from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, the CDE Interface will run to update Education Provider information for public schools, private schools, and school districts in the CWS/CMS application. This update applies to CDE school information only. School information manually created by a CWS/CM...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and CAD Contacts: November 21, 2024 UPDATE: After working with the Business Objects vendor, IBM and the CWDS Infrastructure team are reporting that Business Objects is now up and operational, with a few limited issues / differences that remain to be resolved. Please Note: The login screens will look a bit dif...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and SBC Administrators: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Saturday, November 30, 2024, beginning at 6:00 AM and concluding at 10:00 AM.  During the maintenance window, CDT will apply Standard Monthly OS Security Patches to SBCS Infrastructure Servers. There is no anticipate...

Specific CWDA Staff Related to Child Welfare, County Directors and Alternates, Organization Leadership, CARES Implementation Coordinators, and CARES SPOCs, ELT, PMO, State Communications, Strategic Communications, Implementation Management, Implementation Leads, and Evident Change: There have been many questions regarding the future of SafeMe...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and CAD Contacts: November 20, 2024 FINAL UPDATE: The installation of the Business Objects patch upgrade has completed. Business Objects is now accessible; however, users may experience degraded performance while the Business Objects server catches up on the scheduled jobs from this morning. The CWDS Infrastruct...

All SPOCs: November 20, 2024 UPDATE: Resending this reminder to include the CARES-Live Profile – Create Account document that was missing with the previous reminder communication sent on November 19, 2024. _________________________________________________________________________ As discussed at the last CARES-Live Meeting in September, we wil...