Configure portal for non-Admin users in ArcGIS Desktop

[Cristian_Galindo]

In an enterprise environment, not all users has Administrator rights.

If you install ArcGIS Desktop in a PC and the user account intended to use the software do not have administrative rights, it wont be able to setup the access to Portal in your company.

check this workflow:

1. Install portal in Server A therefore portal will be available at https://myServerA.mycompany.com/portal
2. install ArcGIS desktop in the machine Client1, it is installed using the account PCAdmin (it has administrative rights)
3. the user PCAdmin sets up license and connection to portal using ArcGIS Administrator
4. user User1 (non-admin account) will use ArcGIS Desktop + Catalog using the content hosted in the portal, but neither Desktop, nor Catalog allows him to sign in on the portal, because they does not  show even the portal login page, only the AGOL login page.
5. As User1 is not an administrator, he cannot open the ArcGIS Administrator application.

It does not matter how many times the PCAdmin account sets up the connection to the User1 wont be able to connect to Portal.

How to solve this issue?

[Cristian_Galindo · Accepted solution]

This happens because the ArcGIS Administrator application, saves the portal connections in the current user registry of windows, therefore the configurations made by user account PCAdmin are not going to be available for the user account User1.

A solution is to modify the registry:

1. Log in the Client1 machine as User1
2. open the registry editor: Win -> run -> regedit
3. change the following keys:

         [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcGIS Online\Portals]
         "URL0"=" https://myServerA.mycompany.com/portal"

         [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ESRI\ArcGIS Online\SignIn]
         "HomeServerURIFile"="https://myServerA.mycompany.com/portal"

you can put this in a .reg file and make it easier for the User1 account