Latest Contributions by DavidColey

Hello - your IT security team has to make the server hosting your portals' web adaptor visible to the outside.  If you are not using web adaptor, and/or are using web authentication through IIS, and/or are only using the base deployment, then I don't know that anything else I add below applies. Our org uses F5, a type of proxy server that controls external web traffic to our org. The server hosting the web adaptor is then given an alias name like "ags.yourorg.net" (or .org or .com, whatever you use) and assigned our organizations CA-signed certificate, because you must use https. Each server hosting the other components of enterprise, such as portal, server and data store, must also be aliased using DNS, like gis1.yourorg.net, gis2.yourorg.net, etc and also assinged your org's CA-signed certificate.  If you don't have these alias names in place and an assigned CA cert on all your machines then collector will fail to update any data. You then disable anonymous access to your portal.  This forces everyone trying to connect to ArcEnterprise externally to login through portal's security. So instead of everyone connecting http://machinename:7443/arcgis/home they are connecting to https://ags.yourorg.net/portal where portal is the name of your web adaptor.   ... View more

I don't know, probably.  I don't think breaking up the layer helps.  What does help is setting the 3D scale to no larger than 10,000 ft-height.  I mean take the centroid of the parcel and render the point as a 3D shape based on your value. ... View more

Yeah that's where you have to work with the type of extrusion to see what works.  I used max value, it still can't render them all but it did start to show them as 3d blocks.  That's where maybe a smaller sample would help.  But I gave up on it because I don't think a 3d like this communicates very well.  I would maybe try with the parcel centroids on some value ... View more

Trying to extrude polygons based on an attribute is super expensive.  I have a machine with 32 gb ram and a 4 gb gpu and it's not enough to render my 290k+ parcels on say the justified valuation field.  If you have 3D analyst you can run a Feature to 3D by value and that helps the extrusion.  I'd start with a sample and see what extrusion type works best and/or what kind of scaling you might need to apply.  Of course if you can find another way by all means.... ... View more

Thanks Lorne, yes that did it.  'org_authoritative' for portal.  I thought I tried that first thing, but sadly the api documentation isn't as intuitive as maybe it should be.  If interested, you can follow the content_status property setting with an Item.protect(enable=False) to remove delete protection, as I've been tripped up many times by having a layer set with delete protection . . . ... View more

Well, what I would say is that you do need to make sure your directory locations, shares and service accounts being used are registered correctly with the server. But I needed to do that with ArcMap too so I didn't really think of that as a workaround, per say.  Just that everything has the proper permissions set in portal, if federated.  That's one thing I think made it easier with the federation is that I no longer have to worry about - Server accounts and Server roles . . .  I see on that thread others are having trouble, but we are not.  I've moved all of my dynamic and tile cache map services to pro, and can overwrite, both from SDE and from file gdb sources. ... View more

Hi Mark, respectfully, the local distributor is wrong.  I overwrite them all the time.  For us, there are a lot of benefits.  For example, we use collaborations between agol and our enterprise and it just makes managing the sharing of image services and map services in those collaborations so much easier.  We also get greater performance because we don't have a service authenticating in 2 places, once in server and then once again in portal, which is what happens if you then add a webserver url to your portal as an item from your stand-alone site. If the site is federated, then that's not an issue.  As far as AD goes, I found it more difficult to register it Server than with Portal.  I think there are many more pluses than minuses on federated v stand-alone. . . . ... View more

or 2.15 ... View more

Hi Kelly - thanks for getting back to me on this. Feels like 2 related (related through the use of living atlas content maybe?) but separate bugs, one with the WAB and another with Pro. For Pro users, I just stopped using collaborated web map items as basemaps in our AGOL's custom basemap gallery group. This is ok because I can still use my custom basemap layer items in the AGOL webmap/basemaps. For the Wab Development Edition basemap gallery widget, I have just kept using the non-sync option since this has already been reported as a bug.  I'm still at 2.12, and this may not be an issue at 2.14 ... View more

Yup thanks Arne, I mean I too needed to understand where everything was going to overcome exactly what Mark is going through now... ... View more

This to me seems like maybe it's related to how pro is installed originally:  with the 'anyone who uses this computer' or the 'just me' option.  I say this because for me, it looks like the RealVersion key value is already set in the LOCAL_MACHINE location, and I installed using the 'just me' option.  I do have my conda clone set at the CURRENT_USER location. ... View more

You definitely do not want to un-federate your site.  For us, pro puts everything in it's 'SharedProcesses' folder that is part of your desktop user profile, like: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\ESRI\ArcGISPro\Staging\SharingProcesses\0001 and in that directory you will see sdddraft, sharingInfo.json, etc etc.  All of that gets written to the ...\\directories\arcgissystem\arcgisinput\YourServerFolder\YourMapName.MapServer\extracted\p20 directory, for example For me, I made sure I shared my profile path above with the arcgisserver domain account so that Pro would not have any issues writing from the SharingProcesses folder to the ...\arcgisinput\... folders.  Since I did that I haven't had any issues overwriting traditional map services to my federated site. I don't know if named user vs concurent use licensing affects any of this. We use concurrent. ... View more

Doesn't look like it.  If you go here arcgis.gis.admin module — arcgis 1.7.0 documentation you'll see that the AGOLAdminManager has no 'servers' module.  The best  you'll be able to do is change the title of the item.  I'm constantly running into little constraints like this.  For example, I want to set the content_status property of my layers to 'org_authoritative', or 'public_authoritative' for AGOL.  So even though contentStatus is a property of an item because I can see it in the items' json, it is ignored in the item_properties dictionary because the api doesn't seem to provide 'content_status' as value pair.  Super frustrating. ... View more

Hi Trace - I'm assuming you are in ArcEnterprise? Anyway, you can update the title of an Item using the update method in the Item class, but to update the layer name you have to do a service rename using the Service class in the server module. It basically creates a new service with the same id as the old service.  It's kind of a pain ... View more