Latest Contributions by DanielMcAlister

However in testing, rendering is too slow. Are there any secrets to speeding this up? ... View more

Has anyone gotten Esri Maps for Sharepoint and Portal for ArcGIS to integrate to the extent of being able to create a workflow in Sharepoint with a Geocoding Service, that is a Esri Maps Locate workflow template? Thanks Dan. ... View more

I've moved my content database which contains Esri Maps for Sharepoint 2010 3.0 objects to my new 2013 farm and I'm trying to do an upgrade. My question is do I need to install Esri Maps for Sharepoint 2010 3.0 or Esri Maps for Sharepoint 2013 3.0 to enable the upgrade and database attachment to succeed. The Test-SPContentDatabase complains I dont' have Esri Maps for Sharepoint objects installed as third party customizations. The install procedure for Esri Maps for Sharepoint 3.0 for SP 2010 objects to being installed on a 2013 farm, and the Esri Maps for Sharepoint 3.0 for SP2013 kind of installs with errors. Anyone know the official process? Many thanks, Dan. ... View more

Hi, I'm trying to architecture a Portal for ArcGIS setup within a company firewall - integrating with Active Directory, mostly but not exclusively to avail of Esri maps for sharepoint integration. I'd like to place the spatial data in arcgis server services on the amazon cloud, could these services support portal inside the firewall and at the same time be accessed by non portal, regular web apps hosted on the amazon cloud? Many thanks for any thoughts. Dan. ... View more

I use a small python script to export metadata to xml. It works fine if I run it on a Windows 7 64 bit PC but it will not run on a Windows 2008 Server. We had this issue in 10 and 10.1 and it was defined as a bug/limitation by Esri. It's still an issue in 10.2. Has anyone else come across this? Code is below, error is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\Scripts\exportmetadatawin201.py", line 11, in <module> arcpy.XSLTransform_conversion(Source_Metadata, ExportMetadata_xslt, Output_XML,"") File "D:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.2\arcpy\arcpy\conversion.py", line 1366, in XSLTransform raise e arcgisscripting.ExecuteError: ERROR 000582: Error occurred during execution. import arcpy, sys Output_XML = sys.argv[1] Source_Metadata = "Database Connections/sde to server.sde/" + sys.argv[2] ExportMetadata_xslt = "d:/Scripts/ExportMetadata.xslt" arcpy.XSLTransform_conversion(Source_Metadata, ExportMetadata_xslt, Output_XML,"") ... View more

Has anyone successfully upgraded from 10.1 to 10.2 on AWS manually? Not using Cloud builder? In the manual if not using cloud builder it advises doing a "update directly" I checked with Esri and they said yeh, upgrading using the 10.2 software like any other non cloud non AMI setup was the way to go. It hasn't worked, it's not functioning, there is a windows service called arcgis running but I can't contact it or manager. The log kicks out "Failed to unregister Amazon EC2 instance from the site", any ideas appreciated. - Dan ... View more

I'm getting an error (when trying to upgrade from 2.2) that seems to point to permission issues, but I doubt it as I'm installing as sharepoint admin. The install procedure tests the environment and proceeds then I get "access denied. only machine administrators are allowed to create administration service job definitions of type: Microsoft.sharepoint.administration.spsolutiondeploymentjobdefinition, Microsoft.sharepoint, version=14.0.0.0, culture=neutal, Publickeytoken= Now I'm left with no version running as it seems to have successfully uninstalled the old version. I didn't know you had to have Portal or an ArcGIS Online account, we just have ArcGIS Server could this be the issue? Thanks Dan. ... View more

Hi, I'm trying to connect ArcMap to a mapguide kml service. If I give the connection in ArcCatalog coordinates, these i put in the "Search Envelope" in the parameters dialog, in the connection. I can get data. I want to browse the service, so don't want to restrict myself to an envelope. The service is scale dependent, so you do have to have your extent at a certain scale to draw data. Has anyone successfully done this? Thanks Dan. ... View more

Maybe this is a question for a Microsoft rep or forum, but anyone think you could use SharePoint Online with ArcGIS Online. Connecting the two via ArcGIS for SharePoint? I'd assume ArcGIS for SharePoint would have to be installed on the SharePoint Online Server? ... View more

Hi just about to give up on Tomcat and Geoportal Server 1.0 Cannot get geoportal server to connect via the JDBC drivers. I'm using a simple adapter to connect via the gpt.xml file. Correct user name and password. Yet when I boot up tomcat the log files state com.esri.gpt.framework.sql.DatabaseReference testConnection SEVERE: Connection test failed. java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied. That's without even going near the site. I've followed the instructions of how to install geoportal, and the only slightly different setup I have is that I've used Microsofts IIS's Application Request Routing to forward requests for /geoportal to tomcat. This seems to work fine, I can bring up the geoportal site no problem. Login as the Administrator I defined in geoportal.xml, I think this uses the geoportal.xml file properties (username and password defined in there), however when I try to use the Administration feature. That is click on the Administration button, it breaks stating 'A database communication error has occurred'. The logs are filled with invalid username and password, but via sqlplus the geoportal user can login fine. The server is also running both Oracle client and server, however I don't believe this could be the issue. But if anyone has any debugging techniques or advice, both a welcome, trying to crack this one for a week. Thanks Dan ... View more