Latest Contributions by MichaelVolz

Are you using the default cluster or have you modified it or created another cluster?  My v10.2 setup is only using the default cluster so I probably could not help you out as mine is the default and it is working properly. ... View more

I work for a county and we have coverage for the entire county.  We will also be getting another complete coverage of obliques in the coming year, so a web app to compare the obliques would be great.  I would like a widget where the user selects a point on the map and it returns the Oblique image. ... View more

Does the data for your mapservice reside on the ArcGIS Server server or do you have it elsewhere (e.g. SDE database, network share for a file geodatabase or shapefile)? ... View more

Did it also take a long time to publish the service compared to your old ArcGIS Server environment? ... View more

Number 10 can be quite a big task if you want the client software at the same version as the database if your organization manages a large number of mxds (This could also impact lyr files that have SDE as their source). ... View more

Please make sure the SDE connection that is registered with ArcGIS Server is the same one that is being used in the mxd that is the source of your mapservice.  I have my SDE connection registered, so the SDE data is not being copied to my ArcGIS Server server. ... View more

Vince: You stated "Finally, keep in mind that end-of-life for ArcGIS 9.3.1 is also rapidly approaching (it will be retired 31-Dec 2013)." What does that mean in terms of support for this product? ... View more

bulat: I would also be concerned with the Oracle Client software that you have on each computer where ArcGIS Desktop installed.  Are you using the direct connection methodology to connect to the Oracle database?  If so, are you going to upgrade each client to Oracle 11g Client as well.  If this was the methodology that you used, then the 10g connections will be embedded in all your mxds.  You will need to update these connections to 11g connections.  You can have endusers perform this task manually or you can script it out in VB.NET, VBA, or python (not sure how good the python scripting is at 9 as many new methods were added at 10). This is a task that my organization is currently going through.  We have over 200,000 Oracle SDE connections that need to be updated from 10g to 11g to follow ESRI's Best Practices of having the Oracle Client at the same version as the database itself.  I have an idea on the ideas website (ideas.arcgis.com - Option of Using UNC Path for SDE Connection Files) where you would have the option of embedding the Oracle SDE connection information in the mxd (the current practice where you need to fix all these connections) or have ArcMap go to the .sde connection files outside the mxd to connect to the Oracle database (in this scenario you would just need to update the .sde files instead of all the mxds - for my organization this would be the difference between updating 200 .sde files compared to 200,000 sde connections in over 40,000 mxds). If you like the below idea, please promote it on the ideas website. ... View more

I have just added an post to the ideas website (ideas.arcgis.com) for ESRI to allow the option of either embedding the SDE connection information inside mxds or have the mxd refer to the .sde files outside the mxd for SDE connection information.  In this way, if you rely on the .sde files, then you would only need to update that information instead of the mxds.  Please promote this post if you like this idea. ... View more

You need to register the SDE connection(s) you are using in your mxd with ArcGIS Server so it does not copy the SDE data to the ArcGIS Server server.  When you analyze your mapservice, you will get a high warning that the SDE data is being copied.  This is done in the Site tab in ArcGIS Server manager. ... View more

If it is just a data change, then you might need the endusers to clear their browser cache. If you are making schema changes to your data, then you would need to republish the mapservice to see the changes (and you would probably need the endusers to clear their browser cache as well). You might also want to consider upgrading your Flex app to a higher version, as v3.5 is already in production, but I would recommend going with 3.3 or 3.4 as the widgets in those environments have been upgraded at this point as well. ... View more

For the county I work in, we paid $300,000 to get all impervious surfaces which included a building footprint layer.  It should be noted that due to the accuracy of the parcel layer, these sub-parcel vectors were not always in the parcel boundaries. If we had just wanted building footprints, it would have cost $200,000.  By getting all impervious with the same contract, we paid an additional $100,000 for more than double the features of just building footprints. ... View more

Vince: In your post you said that the parameters were not correct, but you did not provide an example of good parameters (That would be very useful for endusers). ... View more