topic Re: Enterprise Basemap with High Resolution Imagery in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

Enterprise Basemap with High Resolution Imagery

Syvertson — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:03:22 GMT

I am having a real problem trying to publish my own basemap with high resolution imagery. I have two Federated servers. One is the hosting server and the portal. The other is the imagery server. Both are running 11.5. I have a mosaicked dataset that is high resolution that I would like to place behind my base layers. When I place a group layer of all the images, and publish to the server it works, but the performace is not great, and I cannot get the print widget in the maps to work unless I change basemaps. But when I place the mosaicked dataset behind the base layers and attempt to publish to the hosting server, I get an error the following error:

When I change the server to the image server, I get the following messages:

So the one layer with imagery would not publish to the hosting server, and all the other layers would not publish to the image server.

Re: Enterprise Basemap with High Resolution Imagery

George_Thompson — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:03:26 GMT

So, it looks like licensing is the reason.

To publish the mosaic dataset, you must have Image Server role on your ArcGIS Server.

In order to publish referenced data, you have to have ArcGIS Server authorized. This same machine can also have Imager Server role applied.

https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/get-started/latest/windows/additional-server-deployment.htm

If you want both of the layer types (vector / raster) you would need to apply both licenses to the same machine.

Re: Enterprise Basemap with High Resolution Imagery

Syvertson — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:23:05 GMT

Thank you. I was under the impression that I could only license the server as image server OR use the regular server license. I was able to provision it to both and it seems to be working just fine now.

Re: Enterprise Basemap with High Resolution Imagery

George_Thompson — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:35:10 GMT

Yeah, I usually recommend having both licenses on the machine for the most flexibility.

If you are going to only have image services, then you can do Image Server role only.