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Mark Bockenhauer Mark, Thank you for posting this information.  In your comment, you mentioned no data was lost.  Two of our satellite offices confirmed lost data in addition to downtime.  As an FYI, I put in a call to tech support to provide a report.  They have not called back.   The Dashboard is helpful to indicate a problem, but it is difficult to tell how often it is updated.  Looks like at least once a day.   Can you expand on how you know there was no data loss?  If edits in online services are real time, then is data loss due to a bad connection, where the data does not appear upon web page refresh? Thank you in advance for your reply. ... View more

Annotation is an invaluable means of communicating complicated information in a more digestible way.  Much time and resources has been spent creating multiple annotation layers to display at different scales.  One of the production tasks in many GIS shops is to maintain the custom annotation layers.  Even if a process behind the scenes converted the individual pieces of annotation to polygons that look like font, it would be very valuable to leverage what has already been created.  Thank you. Apparently the trick is to work with the geodatabase so that it is compatible with the AGOL publishing service from V10.x or Pro.  I have been successful in publishing a V9.1 geodatabase through ArcGIS V10.3.  Had to upgrade the geodatabase to clear the warnings generated during the analysis step.  Note: Publish as tiled PNG only.  Had success publishing in Pro when FGDB was imported my means of an MXD.  Still unsuccessful with Pro even seeing the V9.1 FGDB or the upgraded FGDB.  Therefore, can't publish through Pro.  Able to see some other FGDB's though.  Confusing. There should be some kind of dialog in Pro when searching through the folder tree as to why older ESRI items it can't be read.  Now, they just don't show up during navigation.  For example, I can see the FGDB's in Catalog in 10.3.  In the properties, it says V 9.x.  A button lights up that allows me to upgrade.  Now it can be manipulated.  In Pro, older items have to be imported.  Many items can't even be discovered prior to import. Bottom line: make note of existing annotation scales.  Upgrade older GDB if having issues. MXD's - Use existing map documents with annotation included, or bring annotation into new MXD.  Publish to AGOL as tiled PNG.  Dialog will ask for desired scale range. Pro - Import existing MXD.  Publish to AGOL as tiled PNG.  Dialog will ask for desired scale range. Hope this helps. ... View more