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‎06-10-2024

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).

‎06-07-2024

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

‎06-06-2024

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

‎06-06-2024

Well, I would say that, for new installs of Enterprise and Portal, that installing the WA after you run through the post-upgrade is exactly right But for upgrades, the WA should be uninstalled, or at least unregistered, from Portal first. Same for Server.

‎06-06-2024

Great, thanks Scott. I always thought it didn't really matter, especially with fully distributed deployments. After all, whether portal or server, we can always unregister / register a web adaptor after installs / upgrades. Now I'm back in the step 3 camp, since that's what I know. . .

‎06-06-2024

Hmm, ok Marcelo, thanks for the reply. Up to and including 11.2 I have always uninstalled web adaptor for portal and server prior to running the portal and server setup exe's, per the help docs. I did just now notice that at 11.2 the web adaptor un-install / install steps are documented as to be completed after the post-upgrade for portal. Some of us had problems with content and language being un-available to the portal after the 11.2 install, and now I am wondering if the web adaptor for version 11.1 should have been left in place while the 11.2 was upgrading and post-upgrading. So for this 11.2 to 11.3 upgrade, I will leave the portal WA at 11.2 in place per this new documentation. For Server, I don't think it matters for the un-install install order. But - I have always un-installed the WA prior to Server setup exe upgrades, and will continue to do so since the Server help doc does not specifically say not to.

‎06-06-2024

Hello - In prepping for the Enterprise 11.3 Portal upgrade this weekend, I just now noticed that the step for the Web Adaptor Uninstall - Re-Install has been moved from Step 3 in the upgrade documentation for 11.1: https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/11.1/install/windows/upgrade-portal-for-arcgis.htm 3. Sign in to the machine hosting the ArcGIS Web Adaptor you're using with your portal, and uninstall ArcGIS Web Adaptor. For full instructions, see the uninstallation topic for IIS or Java (Windows). Be sure to note the name of the Web Adaptor before you uninstall it. to Step 9 in the latest upgrade documentation for 11.3: https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/install/windows/upgrade-portal-for-arcgis.htm 9. Sign in to the machine hosting the ArcGIS Web Adaptor you're using with your portal, and uninstall ArcGIS Web Adaptor. For full instructions, see the uninstallation topic for IIS or Java (Windows). Be sure to note the name of the Web Adaptor before you uninstall it. So in other words, we are now supposed to leave the 11.2 web adaptor version in place on my web server until AFTER we run the Portal upgrade and post-upgrade steps? I've done this so many times since 10.6 and we have always removed the web adaptor BEFORE running the Portal Setup.exe. Can anyone comment? @MarceloMarques @A_Wyn_Jones @JakeSkinner @ScottTansley Thanks - David Sarasota County GIS

‎06-05-2024

I am prepping for 11.3 install this weekend. As I understand the Note: section of the install documentation the .exe.001 file only needs to be in the same directory as the .exe setup extraction file so that the the .exe file can complete the extraction. As far as I can tell, the .exe.001 file simply contains the install files, cabs, etc. Once setup.exe et al are in place we are good to go.

‎06-05-2024

Not really @DavidLight - we basically did the double hop that @BillFox mentions and everything was seamless. We went from 2016 - 2019 and then from 2019 - 2022 with no loss of applications, etc.

‎05-31-2024

Not sure I understand, but I am prepping to upgrade 11.2>11.3 next week. Why would the ArcGIS Servers' framework jre care what flavor the cpu is on a given windows VM?

‎05-24-2024

I found it: https://downloads.esri.com/support/downloads/other_/113-IssuesAddressedList_05212024.pdf Thanks

‎05-24-2024

Hi - for the Issues address list link coming from the latest 'What's new in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3 at: https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/get-started/latest/windows/what-s-new-in-arcgis-enterprise.htm the 11.3 Issues Addressed List still brings up the 11.2 Issues Addressed List. Can anyone fix? Thanks, David

‎05-17-2024

I would agree with both @JakeSkinner and @berniejconnors - our Federated site is a 2 machine cluster, 8 cores each. So for the site, I have the dynamic mapping service pooling set to 8 number of instances, giving me 16. But you shouldn't set the number of instances it can use to more than the number of cores you have. So as a rule of thumb for the dynamic service, I would publish no more than 30 simple map services services to the shared instance. In practice, I have about the same as Bernie, 15 -20 or so simple map image services. As for the warning about the dynamic service crashing, I do not see that very often and since there is not much I can do about it, I just ignore it. The service recovers and I move on. I use Monitor, and for my any of my shared or dedicated instances, I can see the % saturation. If I were to see one of my shared instances using up to like 75%, I would consider moving that instance to dedicated. Otherwise, that might be or maybe could be the cause of the dynamic map service instance crashing. . .

‎05-16-2024

Ok guys - if they need to check with their respective teams, it might help if they had my case number, etc: Case: 03592799 Analyst: Daniel M. Me: David Coley, Sarasota County GIS

‎05-14-2024

Actually, scratch that above. It does work, it just now takes over an hour over the network at the moment: Start Time: Tuesday, May 14, 2024 11:45:43 AM Locator build started Data processing started Processing Point Address role Finished processing data Finished initializing builder Initializing country info... Storing build info... Building location table... Building places table... Building relationships... Storing search index... Storing polygons... Building suggestions structures... Finalizing locator... Finished building locator Succeeded at Tuesday, May 14, 2024 1:01:20 PM (Elapsed Time: 1 hours 15 minutes 36 seconds) Not sure why yet . . .

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