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Much appreciated Richard. Will see how it pans out.

Thanks Richard, I even read https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/how-to-lock-licensing-options-in-arcgis-pro-000026114 and missed it.. Will have a test of this. You don't perhaps know if the ability to select extensions is then disabled do you? This would be least preferable.. Cheers pal.

Following on from the ArcGIS Pro licensing registry setting post https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/regedit-values-to-start-up-arcgis-pro-as-named/m-p/1707624#M103589 For an AVD ArcGIS Pro user (multi-user pooled host pool with FSLogix) - I get that registry entries can be set to define default licensing settings (license type, level, server etc.) from registry settings at the HKLM level. Is there a method to lock and prevent the user from ever changing these defaults? I am thinking something like locking the HKLM with GPO/ACL etc, which I guess is FSLogix config? I am cautious that doing so would cause a crashout if the user were to go into the licensing options in the Pro GUI - or would it just be greyed-out? Any experience of implementing this, tips, tricks, ideas, all welcome. thanks for reading.

Hi @RandyKreuziger1 Did you implement this OK? looking to do similar for some user pooled AVDs. I can see how defaults can be set via the registry as I've done for packaging in ArcMap previously. But.. considering that the licensing for Pro can be controlled via the Pro options within the app, can they or are they locked out? Would ideally want to lock it down completely for users to avoid Murphy's law.

‎01-14-2026

That's great, thanks for the info Joshua.

‎01-07-2026

ArcGIS Concurrent (desktop) License Server - 'ACT' extension name meaning Hi all and Happy New Year! I'm looking at some usage stats for our ArcGIS Licensing Server, particularly extensions being used. LM version - 2019.2 Concurrent use licenses for desktop ArcMap, Pro and; ArcMap and Pro desktop extensions. looking at the lmutil report for active usage, I'm seeing 'ACT' which I really have no idea of what it is. 'ACT' doesn't show up as the name of anything via the license manager GUI, and 'ACT' doesn't show up at all in almost 18 months of lmgr logs. This is the lmutil report below. If anyone has any arcane knowledge of this ACT extension I'd be very grateful! Thanks in advance. Last Run Time: REDACTED License Server Status: RUNNING --------------------------------------- lmutil - Copyright (c) REDACTED Flexible License Manager status on REDACTED [Detecting lmgrd processes...] License server status: REDACTED License file(s) on REDACTED: REDACTED\LicenseManager\bin\service.txt: REDACTED: license server UP (MASTER) vREDACTED Vendor daemon status (on REDACTED): ARCGIS: UP vREDACTED Feature usage info: Users of ACT: (Total of 1 license issued; Total of 0 licenses in use)

‎12-03-2025

Hi all, Looking to virtualise ArcMap 10.8.2 in Azure (yes am well aware of ArcMap EOL, RIP!)... https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/system-requirements/latest/arcgis-desktop-system-requirements.htm 10.8.2 requirements doc states Azure VMs are fine, but I don't think that's answering the same on-premises VDI question the other tables in the doc are. Has anyone had experience of running this setup and can offer any advice/gotchas etc? I'm wondering about any issues running multi-session on the VMs from the AVD host pool - rather than having to essentially give everyone a dedicated VM. Around 50 users expected. Any experience/advice/anecdotes/info all most welcome (I'd value your experience and insight more than linking to a doc). Also anything on Pro virtualisation as that's the next step! Thanks again all

‎10-07-2025

Arcade has a Month() function. It returns 1 (Jan) - 12 (Dec). Date functions | ArcGIS Arcade | Esri Developer this article should have all the code you need, incl. a dictionary to map the number to the month name. How To: Extract Month Names from a Date Field Using ArcGIS Arcade in Map Viewer

‎10-01-2025

Yes Raster to Point and Spatial Join seems the only (potentially) viable option in ArcGIS. I say potentially as it depends on the size of the Raster as it may be possible but not practical in terms of time/processing. With the spatial join you can have a merge/join rule for all intersecting points (new points representing your raster cell centres with raster values) within your quadrants. If you want to create a quadrant around your points, you can use a buffer and feature envelope to polygon tool How To: Create a Square Buffer around a Point Feature in ArcGIS Pro I also believe Zonal Stats is a SA tool unfortunately.

‎09-29-2025

How does it show in the layout view in Pro? Possibly fit-to-page on the print is skewing it?

‎09-26-2025

Maybe you have unsaved edits?

‎09-26-2025

You might be lucky and have some pixel values which only correspond to the outlines and the index numbers, but it looks unlikely. Even so, it would only probably help with somehow turning that into the individual polygons/centroids. You'd be left with some raster cells which form a picture of the ID text, which is probably only use to a manual digitiser. It sadly looks like some application of AI/ML or laborious digitising, but I'd be interested to see what other options people might come up with.

‎09-26-2025

Yes I think the doc could be worded more explicitly. You want the join to take place only if it is the single Closest Point of all other points (matching attributes or not), AND the attributes match? not: The Closest Point from a selection of attribute-matched points (even if not the Closest point of all inputs). It makes sense to me for the latter, which is what the tool is undoubtedly doing. The set of use-cases for the first seems much much smaller (imho at-least). You could set the Search Radius parameter to limit the search distance or from what you describe as your objective you can simply: Do a normal Spatial Join (closest) with no attribute matching. Then you have a layer which has the spatially closest record (attributes matching or not). You will then have the attribute appended from that Closest point. I think it's only then an exercise to find rows where the 2 attribute columns do not match. Perhaps simply done with a Select by Attribute where 'Field1 <> 'Field2'

‎09-25-2025

Just for clarity, I think that would be a Mosaic Dataset.

‎09-25-2025

Yes, it would be the new buffer you clip to the yellow features. This should produce a thin sliver of a polygon which runs along the shoreline and extends a few metres (whatever distance you buffered by) offshore. You then buffer that, then finally clip to the State Polygons (so that it's all inland).

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