topic Promoting services from Test/staging to Production in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/promoting-services-from-test-staging-to-production/m-p/127999#M4913 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><UL><LI style="text-indent: -.25in;">Promoting services from test to production- what is the best practices for promoting services and keeping pathnames intact, even though they are pointing to a different source. <SPAN style="color: red;">Not only the server we are publishing to but the source data as well. Example below</SPAN></LI></UL><P style="margin-left: .5in;"><SPAN style="color: red;">What do we need to do to allow an agency admin to publish to&nbsp;CAT/Test using&nbsp;CATSQL Geodatabase as its source data.&nbsp; Then pass on to us a service definition that I can then publish to&nbsp;Production&nbsp;using&nbsp;ProductionSQL Geodatabase as its data source.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:27:30 GMT Anonymous User 2018-12-20T17:27:30Z Promoting services from Test/staging to Production https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/promoting-services-from-test-staging-to-production/m-p/127999#M4913 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><UL><LI style="text-indent: -.25in;">Promoting services from test to production- what is the best practices for promoting services and keeping pathnames intact, even though they are pointing to a different source. <SPAN style="color: red;">Not only the server we are publishing to but the source data as well. Example below</SPAN></LI></UL><P style="margin-left: .5in;"><SPAN style="color: red;">What do we need to do to allow an agency admin to publish to&nbsp;CAT/Test using&nbsp;CATSQL Geodatabase as its source data.&nbsp; Then pass on to us a service definition that I can then publish to&nbsp;Production&nbsp;using&nbsp;ProductionSQL Geodatabase as its data source.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:27:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/promoting-services-from-test-staging-to-production/m-p/127999#M4913 Anonymous User 2018-12-20T17:27:30Z Re: Promoting services from Test/staging to Production https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/promoting-services-from-test-staging-to-production/m-p/128000#M4914 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Are both databases SQL Server databases?&nbsp; Is CATSQL and ProductionSQL just different names for SQL Server databases?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Dec 2018 13:10:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/promoting-services-from-test-staging-to-production/m-p/128000#M4914 MichaelVolz 2018-12-26T13:10:57Z Re: Promoting services from Test/staging to Production https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/promoting-services-from-test-staging-to-production/m-p/128001#M4915 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yes they both are SQL server databases- CATSQL is the testing and Production is a production SQL database</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 31 Dec 2018 21:44:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/promoting-services-from-test-staging-to-production/m-p/128001#M4915 Anonymous User 2018-12-31T21:44:45Z Re: Promoting services from Test/staging to Production https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/promoting-services-from-test-staging-to-production/m-p/128002#M4916 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>System Aliases for everyone.... System aliases to UNC paths for connection files, system alias on databases, registered connections in server, map services, application configurations...</P><P></P><P>Update stuff and have network admins transfer system aliases to the updated environment.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 14 Jan 2019 17:01:15 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/promoting-services-from-test-staging-to-production/m-p/128002#M4916 KyleGonterwitz 2019-01-14T17:01:15Z