What's New in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5

[BrittanyLe]

ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 is here! We’re excited to introduce a new persona-focused overview of the release features. Whether you’re a GIS administrator managing user access, an IT professional ensuring system security, or a GIS analyst conducting spatial analysis; ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 provides features and enhancements to streamline your workflows, support migration to more modern and powerful applications, and prepare you for future versions of ArcGIS Enterprise. 

Get a brief overview of our key features, below, in our release video. Then head over to the What's new in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 release blog for a deeper dive. After exploring what's new, comment on this Esri Community post to let us know what you think about the new persona-focused overview to help us improve our future communications.

• The new ‘About’ experience that provides GIS administrators with an easily accessible overview of ArcGIS Enterprise deployment information to aid in planning and resource management.  
• The service usage by user report that empowers administrators to understand usage trends within an organization by reporting the number of times a service was accessed by each unique user.
• Advancements to audit logging allowing IT administrators to audit ArcGIS Server events, providing opportunities to boost compliance with security policies.  
• Sub-layer search that accelerates embedded content discoverability for GIS analysts or GIS administrators by enhancing content searches to encompass, match, and return individual sublayers within hosted feature layers.

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[AKRRMapGuy]

The Server usage is nice, but I would really like to see more robust app usage data on the Portal side too. This would be very helpful for admins to figure out the usage on what we dedicate time to. I have never felt the 'view count' on the item details in Portal is accurate.

[vijaybadugu]

We are still using Web App Builder apps deployed in IIS, Can we upgrade to 11.5 from 11.4 ?

[BlakeTerhune]

@vijaybadugu 11.5 is the last release to support Web AppBuilder, so you should be okay.

[Todd_Metzler]

What is service usage by user report actually reporting? For example, a connection to a service with a duration, or the number of calls a user makes to the service?  Explained another way, the server service stats for number of "hits" appears to be derived by number of queries and not reflective of the number of users.

[BrittanyLe]

Hello @Todd_Metzler! The service usage by user report with ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5, is available within the ArcGIS Server Administrator API. This report builds on the existing ArcGIS Server reporting capabilities by providing a more granular perspective on service usage. Administrators can now see the number of times a service was accessed, broken down by each unique user. This feature offers valuable insights into how content is being accessed within the organization, enabling administrators to identify usage trends by various organization members. By understanding which users are accessing specific services most frequently, administrators can better tailor their strategies to meet the needs of different organization members. 

Check out this cool video created by Esri Canada to see it in action ➡️ Create Service Usage by Users Report in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5

[Joshua-Young]

I understand that ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 is supposed to be the version to use to transition to ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0. Does Esri have any Python scripts that can scan our ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 deployment for content that will no longer be supported in ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0?

We have been using ArcGIS Enterprise for many years now and it will be very time consuming to manually review all of our content for unsupported items.