Cannot Publish Service Definition to Enterprise Server from ArcMap

[CodyPatterson]

Hey all,

Recently, I have been tasked with ensuring a Service Definition is published to our newly established ArcGIS Enterprise environment. We have been hosting this on a separate server for a long while and frequently overwrite the older SD on the older server without any issue. I cannot seem to get this to work.

The error is "packaging succeeded but publishing failed" along with an error 500. The server is connected and connectable via web browser and through ArcMap, I'm able to browse all folders as well. Most of the articles published have been 3+ years prior and much of the information does not seem to help.

Any starting points that I should consider investigating first? The only issue I may be causing could be the Self-Signed cert we have in place temporarily while our IT obtains the CA Signed that we will need. A screenshot of the error has been attached, I purposefully excluded the locations of the executions, but the URLs and Item IDs are all blank, even though the working publishing to the older server has all of those filled.

This is to ArcGIS Enterprise 11.1 and from ArcMap 10.7.1

 

Thank you in advance!

[ThomasHoman · Accepted solution]

Hi,

ArcGIS Enterprise 11.1 no longer supports ArcMap workflows - you need to upgrade to Pro or use the tools embedded in Server Manager or Enterprise Portal. https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/get-started/latest/windows/considerations-for-upgrades-to-11-0-and-... 

"All ArcMap based publishing and administrative workflows are no longer supported. Instead, you will use ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Server Manager, or the ArcGIS Enterprise portal for these workflows."

Regards,

Tom

[CodyPatterson]

Thank you for the reply Tom,

I appreciate the pointers, I wasn't aware of that so thank you for mentioning it.

Would the next step be simply publishing the Service Definition from a file?

[A_Wyn_Jones · Accepted solution]

@CodyPatterson 

Uploading the service definition file also wouldn't work as it's been written in ArcMap 10.7.1.

You should import your map document to ArcGIS Pro 3.1.3 and then save the definition file in ArcGIS Pro or publish from Pro.

You're running into a geoprocessing incompatibility (with the ArcMap runtime incompatibility too), ArcGIS Enterprise does have a geoprocessing compatibility level which is described here:

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/analysis/geoprocessing/share-analysis/geoprocessing-se...

[CodyPatterson]

Good Morning,

That makes sense, I just attempted that and was met with that error, not sure why I thought that'd be a way around it. Thank you both for your responses, I think that resolves it!