topic Prevent Users from Upgrading ArcGIS Pro in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Prevent Users from Upgrading ArcGIS Pro

MatthewStull1 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:15:56 GMT

Hi Everyone, my question is: Is there a way to prevent users from upgrading Pro on their own (like some sort of setting)? Recently I had a few users who upgraded without telling the GIS staff and it caused some backwards compatibility issues. Thank you for your time.

Re: Prevent Users from Upgrading ArcGIS Pro

David_McRitchie — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:18:11 GMT

Hey Matthew the following documentation discusses how updating can be disabled.

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/get-started/update-arcgis-pro.htm#:~:text=startup%20check%20box.-,Block%20updates,-As%20an%20administrator

Hope that helps,

David

Re: Prevent Users from Upgrading ArcGIS Pro

Ed_ — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:50:44 GMT

Go Vandals! 🙌

Re: Prevent Users from Upgrading ArcGIS Pro

RhettZufelt — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 18:36:11 GMT

I second that.....

Re: Prevent Users from Upgrading ArcGIS Pro

MarcelSt-Germain — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:28:25 GMT

By the way, can we choose the update to be done. Since Pro broke in each release some features, I had to reinstall it to the 3.0.1. If I update it, I past to the last update available.

Re: Prevent Users from Upgrading ArcGIS Pro

MatthewStull1 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:05:05 GMT

FYI, the new Date field type in 3.2 is not backwards compatible. To put another way, if you create a feature class with the new date field type, users using 3.1 or older will not be able to use it. I'm personally disappointed that ESRI has not emphasized this more.

Re: Prevent Users from Upgrading ArcGIS Pro

D_McRitchie — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 17:03:11 GMT

Hey Marcel,

This will only disable the ability to update. For selecting the specific update to be done a new install would be required.

On MyEsri you can select patches for the minor version number, so if you were looking to upgrade to 3.0.4 you could download ArcGIS Pro 3 patch 1. (Patch 1 as the default download for 3.0 starts at 3.0.3.

Many thanks,

David

Re: Prevent Users from Upgrading ArcGIS Pro

MarcelSt-Germain — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:48:19 GMT

@D_McRitchie

Yes but why not make it simple. I can update directly to 3.2x but why not incremental update. ESRI doesn't know the KISS philosophy

Re: Prevent Users from Upgrading ArcGIS Pro

PaulLohr — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:39:05 GMT

From the documentation in the link provided by @David_McRitchie :

Block all updates

You can block the ability to update ArcGIS Pro from within the application. This option is only available with administrator access.

To block all updates, browse to the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ESRI\ArcGISPro\Settings and set the value of CheckForUpdatesAtStartup to 0.

We can't go around and do this manually on every machine. So we have to go to our IT department and get them to push this change out to each machine that runs Pro. That's a hassle. This should be managed on the arcgis site.