Latest Contributions by MarkBierman

Megan since this is a windows service account or linux depending on your OS you can change the password in the accounts management utility for either OS.  Here is the link for each.  You can easily change the password doing the following.  Just make sure prior to upgrading that you also complete the following as its very important to make sure all permissions are set prior to starting the upgrade other wise the upgrade is prone to fail.   https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4490115/windows-change-or-reset-your-password  https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-set-change-password-how-to/  ... View more

If you prefer to use different accounts, you can do that as well!  There are many instances where different service accounts are used in deploying the Enterprise applications.  The thing you will need to take into consideration is if you are using different accounts.  You can use different accounts if you like and simply go in and make sure that each account has read and write permissions to the folders associated with the other applications.  For example.  Server needs permission to portal and datastore.  Portal needs permission to server and datastore, Datastore needs permission to portal and server.  If you went in and gave those accounts read and write permission to each folder, you would not have a problem.  The best recommendation that we can make though is that you do use a single service account and that your single service account is an active directory account with a static password so that permissions can be passed between machines easy enough should you ever decided to make this a multi machine site.   ... View more

The functionality of group based membership is already built into agol and portal.  What if you made everything in the organization only available to members of the group?  You could then give out a single username and password for that organization that the story map was created for.  Once the storymap your looking to share was placed in the group only the members of the group can view the content.  This allows you secure the rest of your organization by only sharing content with members of the specified group.  Things could be made public you wanted to be public but things you wanted to be private would of course then be password protected.  You could also customize roles in agol and portal that would allow for limited access and no editing privileges based on your needs.   ... View more

If your intention is share content without token based authentication I agree with the above recommendation.  Rather then make changes to the authentication method you would just need to change the items sharing to everybody instead of only members of the portal, groups or other members.   ... View more

If you wanted to unfederate from sharing/rest I recommend you do it with the assistance of an ESRI support analyst on the line as the consequences are irreversible. However, if your content is already lost and your federation is already broken. When you get to sharing/rest follow the steps outlined below. Login in the top right corner. Click the home button in the top left. Click Portals Click Self Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. Click Servers. Click the server ID listed. This will make the unfederate button appear. Click unfederate. You are now unfederated! As a side note. For whatever reason you are Unfederating this only removes the federation from the Portal. If you want to clear the federation from both server and portal, you should unfederate in portal admin as it clears the federation for both applications. If this isn't working you can do it the above referenced way and then go in and manually unfederate Portal from server admin by logging into server admin, clicking on security, clicking on config. There you will find a drop-down change portal to GIS_Server. Once you do this both applications will no longer be federate ... View more