topic Promoting Map Services/Feature Services through enviroments in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/promoting-map-services-feature-services-through/m-p/665671#M25396 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>A vendor was hired to create a custom application.&nbsp; That custom application requires map services, which will be served by the existing ArcGIS Server site I administer.&nbsp; What is the best way to port services/service definitions to test and production environments? </P><P></P><P>I don't want my staff to get stuck recreating the vendor's services, IT won't let vendors into my production environment (not sure I would either), and there are no parameters in the test Map Service Definition file which I can adjust to spontaneously create the new service in prod.</P><P></P><P>The only solution I can think of is to require the vendor to provide a python script which authors the service.&nbsp; Then vet the script, and execute.</P><P></P><P>Am I missing alternatives?</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 May 2015 23:49:14 GMT Anonymous User 2015-05-04T23:49:14Z Promoting Map Services/Feature Services through enviroments https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/promoting-map-services-feature-services-through/m-p/665671#M25396 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>A vendor was hired to create a custom application.&nbsp; That custom application requires map services, which will be served by the existing ArcGIS Server site I administer.&nbsp; What is the best way to port services/service definitions to test and production environments? </P><P></P><P>I don't want my staff to get stuck recreating the vendor's services, IT won't let vendors into my production environment (not sure I would either), and there are no parameters in the test Map Service Definition file which I can adjust to spontaneously create the new service in prod.</P><P></P><P>The only solution I can think of is to require the vendor to provide a python script which authors the service.&nbsp; Then vet the script, and execute.</P><P></P><P>Am I missing alternatives?</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 May 2015 23:49:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/promoting-map-services-feature-services-through/m-p/665671#M25396 Anonymous User 2015-05-04T23:49:14Z