Latest Contributions by JosephMcGehan

‎08-25-2025

@CalvinHarmin AD groups are great. We are put our users in one to deploy our software packages to company portal. Our IT lock the admin settings for all 70k users, then give our users (600 odd) a tool to unlock the settings. We did use a GPO and it was good at applying registry settings, it was not so great at folders and files in the volumes we had.

‎08-23-2025

@JenniferBorlick We have a more politically correct version of that as a policy. But it's ineffective.

‎08-20-2025

@RichardDaniels "should" is not the same as reality. The fact on the ground is they can, and they have a strong business case for it. I would love to lock it down, but that's not going to happen. A single control in AGOL would be effective.

‎08-19-2025

@RichardDaniels That registry key keeps getting hacked by users. That's why want an additional control on the AGOL side. We were using a GPO to set that registry key, but our IT now require a software package, which we also set that key. - It's all fun and war games.

‎08-19-2025

Add Admin Control to ArcGIS Online (AGOL) to permit or block ArcGIS Pro Software Updates. ArcGIS Pro has a check for software update function, that allows users to download updates if they are connected to AGOL. This application setting is controlled by registry setting. Users can modify the registry and download software. This has created issues like; project compatibility issues between team members, functionality issues with add-ins, support issue where users want to know things about tools our GIS Managers have not tested yet, performance issues because our configuration XML was not designed for the new variables in the software. We have hundreds of users, and we like to test software with a strategical approach. We have a corporate AGOL. As an admin I would like a variable that controls access to ArcGIS Pro software updates.

‎08-18-2025

Databricks is an order of magnitude faster than SQL for doing stuff. Being able to connect to DB and visualize data would be extremely beneficial. At the moment we have to export to text, and a very 1990's approach.

‎11-06-2024

It's overdue

‎06-04-2024

Thanks, John. This solution worked for us.

‎05-26-2024

We moved our ticket to Premium Support and discovered this was BUG-000164358. You will note in the bug documentation that Esri contradict themselves by claiming this BUG is a "designed" behavior, despite the fact that this "design" defeats the purpose of having a configuration file, which worked in the previous versions. Support recommends submitting an enhancement request. https://support.esri.BUG-000164358 Joe

‎05-22-2024

We are a multinational with hundreds of users around the world. We use GPO to configure ArcGIS Pro. It creates folders, moves files, and manages the registry. Our IS&T uses roaming profiles aggressively, which is terrible for GIS Performance. So naturally we move our heavy temps like basemap caches back to a C drive location. The Pro.settingsConfig is a great concept for us. Pro.settingsConfig was working at ArcGIS Pro 3.0 and 3.1. It's not working for us at ArcGIS Pro 3.2.2. There are 76 variables, we configure 29, and most do not work or only half work. for example, When the spellcheck variable is unlocked, and false, the application is unlocked but ticked (it should be unticked), when the spellcheck variable is locked, and false, the application is locked and unticked (as expected). A pattern has emerged, if the first variable is locked the second variable is honored. If the first variable is unlocked the second variable is mostly ignored. If there's a registry setting and its registry key is removed, then the Pro.settingsConfig starts working as designed for that variable. Unfortunately, not all of my 29 variables have registry keys to revoke to force the config to work. After removing all of the companies GPO and modifying my move config file to roaming registry setting to 0. I found no changes to the issue. I made a quick video of the issue for Esri Support. Esri Case #03617505 - Admin Settings Config XML not working for ArcGIS Pro.

‎05-22-2024

Our organization has the same issue. ArcGIS Pro 3.2.2. Windows 10. Using the Fill Sinks Tool, with "arcpy.env.parallelProcessingFactor = 0" . We are a multinational so can't change window's temp locations. This started to happen after windows updates.

‎08-08-2022

Solved: m.name = ShortTitle map_metadata = m.metadata map_metadata.title = Title map_metadata.summary = Summary map_metadata.description = Description map_metadata.tags = Tag map_metadata.credits = Credits map_metadata.accessConstraints = Terms map_metadata.save()

‎08-07-2022

I have the same issue. I'm making a task tool, driven by py tools. The metadata object remains read only. I can make my own metadata object and populate it, but can't copy and save it in the map metadata object. The Map Metadata object remains read only. This happens when using a script tool in ArcGIS Pro, or when running py via idle with ArcGIS Pro closed. m = aprx.activeMap m.name = Title #set the map elements name to the same as the title # create empty metadata object and populate it with our varibles new_md = md.Metadata() new_md.title = 'Title' new_md.tags = 'Tag1, Tag2' new_md.summary = 'Summary' new_md.description = 'Description' new_md.credits = 'My Credits' activemap_metadata = md.Metadata(m) #the metadata object for the active map if activemap_metadata.isReadOnly: arcpy.AddMessage("the metadata object for the active map is read only") else: activemap_metadata.copy(new_md) activemap_metadata.save()

‎02-19-2020

We are using ArcGIS Pro 2.4.1. Like everyone else above we sometimes have issues. One trend is when people go offline in a completely disconnected environment, things like modifying symbols are painfully slow, some tools and functions like merge, are slow too. Maybe Esri have entwined something with the user profile, which goes Muppet show when roaming.

‎11-10-2019

.. I'd like to use py to automate the above. I'd like to back up all runtime geodatabase, then programaticllay replicate changes against a local master, and pass the runtime geodatabase back.

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Latest Contributions by JosephMcGehan

Re: Add Admin Control for ArcGIS Pro Software Updates

Re: Add Admin Control for ArcGIS Pro Software Updates

Re: Add Admin Control for ArcGIS Pro Software Updates

Re: Add Admin Control for ArcGIS Pro Software Updates

Add Admin Control for ArcGIS Pro Software Updates

Re: Integrate ArcGIS Pro with Databricks Unity Catalog to Read Delta Lake Tables

Re: GeoParquet support in ArcGIS Pro

Re: ERROR 010658: Failure in distributed raster analytics operation.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 3.2.2. Pro.settingsConfig Variables not working

ArcGIS Pro 3.2.2. Pro.settingsConfig Variables not working

Re: ERROR 010658: Failure in distributed raster analytics operation.

Re: Change metadata of my map using a custom script tool in ArcGIS Pro

Re: Change metadata of my map using a custom script tool in ArcGIS Pro

Re: Why is ArcGIS Pro so slow?

Re: Is there a workflow to backup Collector while in offline mode?

Add Admin Control for ArcGIS Pro Software Updates

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Re: ERROR 010658: Failure in distributed raster an...

Re: Change metadata of my map using a custom scrip...

Re: Why is ArcGIS Pro so slow?