ArcGIS Server 10.1 Install Questions

[JoePregler]

I did a install on our "prototype" server just to see how smooth the 10.0 to 10.1 server/sde/license manager upgrade would go.  I have a few questions/verifications:

1. The documentation indicates that integrating with a separate web server is no longer required, however we are running IIS.  Should I stick with IIS, since we have
existing web items?  I installed the web adaptor, and I try to get to the configuration page for it, but I get "Service Unavailable"

2. The setup wanted a "ArcGIS Server account" which is a new thing according to the documentation.  Since the SOM, SOC, and ArcGIS Web Service account are no longer
needed, can I delete them?  I am assuming I would then create a "ArcGIS Server account" domain account and user the server account utility to assign ArcGIS Server to that
account?  Can I just use my existing SOC or SOM account instead?

3. The documentation also indicates that special privileges need to be granted to this "ArcGIS Server account".  Does the "Server Account Utility" do that or is this something I
have to do manually?  The privileges that are listed as being required in the documentation are a little too vague.  Are there specific directories that the privileges should be assigned
to since we were already running Server 10.0?

4. It looks like the SDE services don't come over from 10.0 to 10.1.  I would have to recreate them.  Is that required?  All of our machines use a direct connection to get to SDE.  I don't
believe anyone uses the service, or it is used by the web.  I was confused on if I needed it or not.

5. Anything else I should now?  It seemed to quick and simple to be right.  🙂

Joe

[DeminHu]

I just set up ArcGIS server 10.1 and ArcSDE 10.1 on my test machine, my experiences :

1.  Finally, I need to configure all my service and sites to match my current existing server which have ArcGIS server 10 and many applications, so I installed Web Adaptor, I had problem, but solved by changing the host file: ( C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts , set 127.0.0.1       servername)

  I also had problem with webadaptor, but after I completely uninstalled IIS, then reinstalled, it worked.

2.  the test machine which had ArcGIS server 10 installed before, so I unstalled ArcGIS server 10 and removed all compononets, since SOC, SOM are not needed any more in 10.1, so  I deleted SOM, SOC and ArcGISWebServices accounts.

3. I am trying to figure out too.

4. After  installed ArcGIS desktop and ArcGIS server 10.1, without installing ArcSDE 10.1, I created a SDE database using the tool from ArcCatolog, it worked well, no SDE service created by this process. From, ArcCatolog, it seems you can only use direction connection.
  I think you can use ArcSDE command to created a ASDE service on, then you can use SDE Commands,  your ArcOBject Applications can still use SDE or direct connections.
Later I installed ArcSDE 10.1 on this machine, probably finally ArcSDE commands will go away.

5.But from my testing,  you can not simplly  publish the ,msd files which you published on 10, you need to use the new tool to publish or created a .sd file.

The things I could not understand is that: when you publish your. sd file , but you still see the process created .msd  and .mxd files, for example ( C:\arcgisserver\directories\arcgissystem\arcgisinput\TEST\test1.MapServer\extracted\v101\test.msd, or .mxd)
I don't understand why not like 10, just publish from .msd and .mxd file, for me .

Also, I don't like the webadaptor feature, for me, most machines which we set ArcGIS server on, there will be IIS on, I think it is easier for admin system like before.

It is my experiences so far.