https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-portal-questions/there-s-no-federation-in-portal-administrative/m-p/1084810#M11335 <P>Hello, portal folks <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P><P>I am currently using 10.3.1 ArcGIS Enterprise.</P><P>Whenever I tried to add ArcGIS Server to make it a hosting server, it keeps saying "Error: There was an error communicating with the server. Please check your URL and your credentials and try again". Thus, I tried to check if I can use the Portal Administrative Directory - through "Federation" menu/option.</P><P>And this is what I've got. There's no Federation in the Portal Admin. I think the options of mine are even fewer than the other users' portal options.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="hm_stella_0-1627885623871.jpeg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19869i833187E26BAFD419/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="hm_stella_0-1627885623871.jpeg" alt="hm_stella_0-1627885623871.jpeg" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If anyone knows why this happens, and how to fix this to add a server - ultimately for federating my Portal and Server, please make a comment <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P><P>Thanks!</P> Mon, 02 Aug 2021 06:27:30 GMT hm_stella 2021-08-02T06:27:30Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-portal-questions/there-s-no-federation-in-portal-administrative/m-p/1084810#M11335 <P>Hello, portal folks <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P><P>I am currently using 10.3.1 ArcGIS Enterprise.</P><P>Whenever I tried to add ArcGIS Server to make it a hosting server, it keeps saying "Error: There was an error communicating with the server. Please check your URL and your credentials and try again". Thus, I tried to check if I can use the Portal Administrative Directory - through "Federation" menu/option.</P><P>And this is what I've got. There's no Federation in the Portal Admin. I think the options of mine are even fewer than the other users' portal options.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="hm_stella_0-1627885623871.jpeg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19869i833187E26BAFD419/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="hm_stella_0-1627885623871.jpeg" alt="hm_stella_0-1627885623871.jpeg" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If anyone knows why this happens, and how to fix this to add a server - ultimately for federating my Portal and Server, please make a comment <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P><P>Thanks!</P> Mon, 02 Aug 2021 06:27:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-portal-questions/there-s-no-federation-in-portal-administrative/m-p/1084810#M11335 hm_stella 2021-08-02T06:27:30Z