Latest Contributions by RichardLesperance

I have a license manager installed on a server in our network.  I am wondering if anyone knows if I can use the License Server Administrator tool from my client machine as opposed to having to log in remotely to the license server to see who's using the licenses.   I used to have a clunky way of checking the licenses.  I had shared the BIN folder on that server and created a drive on my client to that share.  From a CMD window I could run the LMUTIL and get that information. But it seems like there should be a more elegant way of doing that in this day and age.  Suggestions?  I'm not seeing anything obvious in the documentation. Thanks ... View more

Hey everyone; since ESRI is forcing us to go with Direct Connects on SDE, I'm tasked with writing a script that repairs map documents so the layers are connected to their source via direct connection instead of a service connection. So I created a python script that uses the layer.replaceDataSource for each layer in the map. if lyr.supports("SERVICEPROPERTIES"): servProp = lyr.serviceProperties serviceType = servProp.get('ServiceType', 'N/A') if serviceType == "SDE" and servProp.get('Service', 'N/A') <> 'sde:sqlserver:SDESERVER': dbaseName = servProp.get('Database', 'N/A') print dbaseName + ": Service=" + servProp.get('Service', 'N/A') if dbaseName == "geo_data": lyr.replaceDataSource("J:\GIS\ArcMapResources\SDEConnectionFiles\LocalData.sde", "SDE_WORKSPACE", "Geo_Data.SDE." + lyr.name) The LocalData.sde file is the same connection file that people used originally to get the data for their maps. I just changed the connection type in the Connection Properties of this file to be a direct connection instead of a service connection. The problem is that database annotation layers don't respond to this method. Is there a method or tool that re-points connections for annotation layers? Also, some of our layers are feature classes joined to SQL Server database tables or views. I can fix the data source of the feature class, but the joined table doesn't fix. Is there a way to use Python to fix that connection? Thanks Richard ... View more