Latest Contributions by DavidColey

It may now.  I had not checked since maybe 10.9.1 - but it didn't then.  Could be the way I was doing my collaborations... hosted in my portal (guest), sent to our agol by reference (host) ... View more

Oh hey that's it @valenj88 - thanks for this!  I've got like 13 distributed collaborations where I update data each weekend, but until this latest release of the api I could not find anything on pause / resume.  The problem has been that each time a collaboration syncs on schedule, it un-authorizes each collaboration feature layers.  And so each day I was having to run an re-authorization script so our layers would re-acquire that green 'authorized' icon . . . And thanks for reaching out earlier ... View more

Great thanks for the reply Scott, I just didn't know if there was a more elegant way to handle. If occurs again in the future, I'll remove in order of Porta/Server>unregister (if still present )>remove from IIS>remove any remaining files from windows directory>install new. Yes suspending AV was truly remarkable.  I've been asking my EIT security group to allow this for 10 - 12 years now, they finally relented . . .  ... View more

jeez  . . . well they're aware that's for sure.... ... View more

Yes it was a big relief to have things go quickly for the first time that's for sure...  Not really, but since support and I came up with the adhoc fix, I was in the clear to go ahead with the upgrade.  I can only guess that since you lost basemap content as well as Instant apps, that maybe your fix is more complicated - and so they haven't come up with a fix in your case? ... View more

Hey not sure where you guys are with this but if you look at may last post here: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/arcgis-enterprise-11-3-vs-11-1-portal-web-adaptor/td-p/1486574/page/2 the upgrade from 11.2 to 11.3 went very well.  I was able to convince my security team to allow me to disable active virus scanning during the setup exe and post upgrade steps for all the components, and wa-la, what used to take hours and hours per server completed in 15 - 30 minutes, with Portal taking like 20 minutes, Server taking around 25- 30, and datastores like 15 minutes.  Small hiccup with the reinstall of the Federated Site WA @ShelbyZelonisRoberson  @StevePoladian  @ThomasColson  ... View more

Hooray!  The sidebar is back in place and functioning correctly at 11.3 @JShi_EsriStaff !  Thanks to you too @KellyHutchins ! Thanks- David Coley Sarasota County GIS ... View more

This still takes around  1hour 15.  Still not sure why, but to avoid downtime with my geolocator service, I do the re-build in one directory, stop the geolocator service using the api, then, use an xcopy to overwrite the locator files in my registered location. ... View more

Ok so I completed 11.3 upgrade this Saturday.  We have a completely distributed deployment, with all of the components - Web Adaptors, Portal, Hosting Site, Relational Datastore, Tile Cache Datastore and a Federated Server Site that supports our Image Server and SDE feature access services on separate servers. For the first time, I was able to convince our EIT security to allow the capability to suspend active virus scanning during the upgrades.  So for Portal, Server and Datastore what used to take 3 -4 hours per server, with various hanging points during both upgrade and post-upgrade, now took 15 - 30 minutes. So for our entire enterprise, the update would take up to 18 hours.  I had the entire deploy upgraded, cleaned and tested, in 5 hours. I can't express how thrilled I was.  Simply by suspending active virus scanning during the upgrade and post-upgrades. I did run into one hiccup that relates to this thread.  While adopting the updated uninstall - reinstall order for web adaptor, the reinstalls went just fine for both Portals' WA and the Hosting Site WA.  But for the Federated Site WA, the reinstall failed with a window installer message: 'Can't complete install because a folder with the same name already exists in the ....\innetpub\wwwroot...  directory.  Remove the folder or rename the install'.   Having never seen this before, I wasn't quite sure what to do.  So I made sure that the 11.2 web adaptor was no longer registered with the 11.3 Federated Site and then I went into the wwwroot folder and physically delete the windows directory.  Then I ran the install again and it did complete.  It then took a few minutes for the IIS to recognize?  I guess?  my 'agsfed' WA name and it spun up via localhost and I was then able to configure. Everything is up and clean so far, but am now thinking, that for my Federated Site, I may go back to removing the WA prior to running the Server upgrade exe . . .  but otherwise not real sure if there was a better way to handle this. @MarceloMarques  @Scott_Tansley  ... View more

Typically esri releases a print service patch as one of the first patches available per enterprise release.  Not sure if that patch solves this issue.  I haven't been able to test that ... View more

I just completed our 11.2 to 11.3 upgrade this Saturday.  We have a completely distributed deployment, with all of the components - Web Adaptors, Portal, Hosting Site, Relational Datastore, Tile Cache Datastore and a Federated Server Site that supports our Image Server and SDE feature access services on separate servers. For the first time, I was able to convince our EIT security to allow the capability to suspend active virus scanning during the upgrades.  So for Portal, Server and Datastore what used to take 3 -4 hours per server, with various hanging points during both upgrade and post-upgrade, now took 15 - 30 minutes. So for our entire enterprise, the update would take up to 18 hours.  I had the entire deploy upgraded, cleaned and tested, in 5 hours. If you can, I would roll back to 11.2 as @simoxu suggests.  Then ask your security group to allow you to suspend active virus scanning.  If you can't, try and re-run the datastore component while virus scanning is suspended.  Suspending virus scanning is recommended in this ESRI upgrade knowledge doc: https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/upgrade-arcgis-enterprise-000029452   ... View more

I wouldn't try it.  You might be able to get away with it, but it could be very unstable.  I do know that with Pro 3.3 and Enterprise 11.3 you cannot register a 2016 sql sde database as a database with Portal.  If you have a distributed deployment, you could update Portal, the hosting site server, and the relational datastore to 11.3 while a federated server site remains at 11.1.  This is assuming that any sde sql datastore is registered with the federated Server site only, and not with Enterprise (does not appear as a registered data connection item in your Portal content).   ... View more

Yes I totally agree @RyanUthoff .  My understanding since 10.6 is that we uninstall the WAs before running the setup upgrade exes so that calls to Portal (and then Server) through the web adaptor urls can't get to the machines during their upgrades. So yes I don't understand the change, and there is no documentation on the reason.  It's just 'changed'. I recall seeing your post at my upgrade from 11.0 to 11.1 but because I had completed the upgrade by uninstalling WA first,  (11.1 Step 3) I had no comment to make. Yes, I do see now that this doc for 11.0: https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/upgrade-arcgis-enterprise-000029452 from the knowledge base reads to uninstall the WA after the portal post-upgrade has completed so no one knows what is 'correct'.   BUT, now since both the 11.2 and 11.3 steps and the knowledge base doc say to do the WA uninstall - install after post upgrade(s), this is what I am going to do. @dhochhal  ... View more

Yes, i do not do it differently, which is why I was surprised to see the change in the Portal upgrade steps. I do not have SAML as an auth mechanism, so for me there is no smoke testing.  I appreciate the help ... View more