PublishingToolsEx, SyncToolsEx... What are the *Ex services?

MatthewLofgren

Server 10.5.1

Whats the difference between the PublishingTools, SyncTools, CachingTools and their Ex versions inside the System folder?

I now know that PublishingToolsEx is required to register a data connection with the data store, but I cant find any documentation on what these do exactly.

The reason I ask is because I was troubleshooting an issue where I couldn't register a new data connection. I noticed the logs mentioned something about not finding the service PublishingToolsEx. I didn't have one. I then found Problem: Publishing a feature service to ArcGIS Server fails after ArcGIS Server is upgraded 

I had recently upgraded to 10.5.1 from 10.4.1, so I guess that explained my issue. I recreated the PublishingToolsEx service as described in the article. I poked around the web and found that there should be other *Ex services as well. What are these? Do I need to bother recreating the Sync and Caching ones? If so, do the instructions for PublishingToolsEx work? e.g. SyncTools - Just change the name to SyncToolsEx and provider to ArcObjects11 ?

6. Paste the JSON script copied in step 3 and replace "serviceName": "PublishingTools" with "serviceName": "PublishingToolsEx" and "provider"."ArcObjects" with "provider"."ArcObjects11".

Thanks,

Matt

CarlosNantes

I have similar issue. After upgrading arcgis server (portal and datastore)  from 10.4 to 10.5.1 some of theses services are missing.

I recently had a problem to unregister datastore from arcgis manager because the service in Utilities\GeocodingTools was missing. After recreating the service the problem was solved. But I still have some of theses System\* services missing. 

Some people are having problem in the process of upgrading from version 10.4 to 10.5.1 (as seen here ArcGIS 10.4.1 to 10.5 Upgrade Failed: REST handler inaccessible... ), I'm wondering if this is related to these missing services.