Hi,
I have a customer who is running ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6.1. I tried to upgrade the Enterprise Portal (running one a dedicated VM). The 10.8.1 install media took me to the point where I had to enter the password for the service account. I immediately received an "80070035: The network path was not found". Fortunately, the original credentials.xml file was available to me. I used this file and the upgrade proceeded and successfully completed.
I then moved on to the Hosting Server. This is also on a dedicated VM and has a separate service account. On entering the password I got the same error. The credentials.xml from the original install is not available. I found the following articles:
The situation is this. The account has been in use for two years. I can start/stop the existing windows service. The server connects to SQL Server using AD auth. I can validate the data stores. On the same VM, I can open notepad.exe as the service account user and save files to its profile. Working through the bullet points in the first support article:
- The ArcGIS Server account is in use and has permissions to connect to the domain.
- The domain account definitely exists
- The machine is connected to the domain, and the existing ArcGIS Server can connect to remote SQL Server and file shares.
- UAC remote restrictions were disabled as per the article and no change was observed. Remember that the account is connected (already) to the domain, and can be used anywhere other than in the setup.exe or MSI installers.
Thinking it was the 10.8.1 media I tried to install the 10.6.1 server media to the data store machine (also a dedicated machine). A fresh install of 10.6.1 failed with the same error. Also, I was unable to install it using my own credentials, used to access the VM and with admin privileges.
I tried the reconfigure the service account tool as well. This tool also returned the 80070035 error. I tried the FQDN version of the AD part of the user name. I also tried to reconfigure it to my user account. The same error occurred.
Something has clearly changed since the original install in 2019. I'm thinking maybe a change in Anti Virus or something, but I do not have permissions to turn the AV off, its a cloud solution and I only have local admin rights to the machine (not domain or SaaS rights).
Thinking it may have been the installers GUI, I have also tried to silently install using the setup.exe and also the MSI route. The credentials are correct. Nothing works. The silent install approach tells me "Error 28809. Could not validate the credentials for account.... Confirm the credentials are correct and attempt the installation again". I have copied and pasted the credentials from PasswordSafe. They work when opening notepad as a different user, but not the installer GUI or from the command line. I've escaped the \ in the domain name and quoted the password. Nothing changes.
Unfortunately, we had no choice but to back out the upgrade and return the host machines to their pre-upgrade state. I need to plan for the next upgrade window. Nothing in the Esri documentation or wider online googling appears to help me here.
Has anyone seen anything similar?
Thanks,
Scott
Scott Tansley
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