topic Re: ArcGIS Pro Network Folder Connection Alias in ArcGIS Pro Questions

ArcGIS Pro Network Folder Connection Alias

GraceUziallo — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:58:55 GMT

Hi All, we just upgraded to Pro 3.7 but have noticed the ability to create an alias for a Network Folder Location in the catalog is no longer possible, I'm not sure when this change happened, as I have checked a Pro 3.6 install and that is the same. Going further back to Pro 3.3, I can change/set an alias for a network folder. If you are using a local folder, the ability to set an alias is unchanged in all these versions.

Is anyone else noticing this? If so, wonder if it was an intentional change?

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Re: ArcGIS Pro Network Folder Connection Alias

RichardDaniels — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:41:29 GMT

I can't speak to ArcGIS Pro 3.7, but the Alias option is working in ArcGIS Pro 3.6 SP 6 and SP 7 (released May3rd). Before you ask, yes this alias was assigned to a UNC path like \\myserver.mydomain.loc\mydata

Re: ArcGIS Pro Network Folder Connection Alias

GraceUziallo — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:15:29 GMT

Interesting, I just looked at another VM I have that had Pro 3.4 installed. Confirmed alias worked for a network folder location (\\server\ShareFolder, I then ran the updater in the app to go to 3.7. Once that finished, I opened the same project again and the ability create an alias for the same network folder was gone.

I then discovered if I went one folder deeper \\server\ShareFolder\SubFolder - the sub folder would allow me to change an alias. I wonder if Pro is recognising that folder is the root of a share and so behaves differently -it also has the folder icon with the green bit at the bottom? We also have some DFS shares accessed by \\domain\share$\GISShare which are fine.

Re: ArcGIS Pro Network Folder Connection Alias

RichardDaniels — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:32:02 GMT

The fact that it started working when you went one folder 'deeper' made me think about the current Microsoft Patch KB5082063 released in April and installed on most computers the first weeks of May that resulted in the failure of fuzzy domain resolution. Instead of \\server\ShareFolder\SubFolder try \\server.myDomain.loc\ShareFolder\SubFolder

Re: ArcGIS Pro Network Folder Connection Alias

GraceUziallo — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:27:23 GMT

Thanks Richard, I get the same results if I do \\server.domain.com\ShareFolder (no alias) but if I go to the subfolder, that is fine. Think I will just log a ticket on this and see if it's bug with 3.7 or .NET 10 which was also installed at the same time to enable the upgrade to 3.7 .