Latest Contributions by ThomasColson

You will be very happy with that 6 physical core i9, and you can drop 2 16's in that laptop in a year or 2 to meet what undoubtedly will be the pro min requirement of 32 GB. Only thing I don't like is the slow memory speed, but few Pro users are going to notice that. I think the i9 will support up to 4400 mhz memory? The issue is Dells are notorious for rejecting after market memory. But the good news is....you can upgrade. That video card is a solid performer with Pro. ... View more

You will regret it. We have found, through extensive, extensive testing in a production environment that budget laptops/workstations and Pro are a bad marriage, and result in a miserable experience for casual users such as your self. 3D Unicorns were not part of our testing. The pain point you experience will be the integrated video card, the lack of ability to go past 16 GB of RAM, and only 8 cores. The other brick wall you will hit is that hardware requirements for Pro ignore Moore's Law, and increase even more than processor speed. We have heard from ESRI that the Minimum requirements only mean that the software will start and run....not actually do anything meaningful.  For a laptop, even for casual GIS use, at a minimum you need a dedicated video card (NVIDIA), doesn't need a lot of GPU RAM (4GB), and try for 32 GB of memory. The NVME SSD is a nice one, stick with that. That will get you at least 2-3 years of Pro use before TS is telling you "Not Supported: Doesn't meet hardware requirements".  ... View more

Are you running into this limitation?  ... View more

There is no disputing that M$ bakes IE into its current operating system. There is also no disputing that security isn't at the top, or even close to the top, of things that M$ is well known for. Some STIGS are calling for IE to be removed from datacenters, and/or some datacenters are taking it upon themselves to remove it. I think the point of this thread is, can the dependency on IE be removed? M$ Edge is a much more secure alternative than IE. ESRI want's the best security, right?  ... View more

And the problems continue. In "Classic", I could click "On Device", and see only those maps on the device. I could also see the total number of Maps I could bring offline. In the new Collector, "On Device" and available are grouped in the same window, and everytime I restart the app I have to wait for the "available" to load, which is a very long time over crummy Wifi, before I can do anything, and the only counts I get are the number of offline maps in each group, not the total number of available maps. This "New" Collector seems like quite a significant step backward in functionality.  ... View more

When logging into collector I've found DOMAIN\USERNAME is needed, and secured map layers need USERNAME@DOMAIN ... View more

Despite overwhelming support for turning the sync-via-usb capability back on (as it existed in Arc Pad), this idea has not made it into "In Product Plan" territory, which is very disappointing. Perhaps your vote is the one needed to tip it over, as lousy (or security-blocked) WiFi is pretty common issue with Collector users.  ... View more

Yes! ArcPad could be used without a basemap, unsure as to why this is now required, and not an option.  ... View more

Great! Kory, do the developers have a bug bounty? If so, mark a bug on that case and label it as "implemented"? ... View more

We have the exact same, frustrating problem, but not "every" time. For example, it was 3-5 minutes early this week, and GetPortalsLivingAtlasCategories was the culprit, but today it's 1-ish minutes to open, with random "instant opens".  #02279274 When executing "Activate Catalog View" in Task Assistant, Pro 2.3 locks up. Closed with "Issue was network related.", which is incorrect, but with non reproducible cases like that, there's usually no path to a successful resolution. The analyst identified GetPortalsLivingAtlasCategories as where the hang was occurring. The fact that multiple orgs are now experiencing this lend more support to it NOT being network related. I'm going to stand up a Pro install on an Amazon instance (which I've recently discovered is a great way for myself and the analyst to both be testing in the same environment: I can grant them access) and will contemplate re-opening this case while I spend an entire 3-day weekend fixing plumbing. How frustrated I get with soldering pipes and losing PEX compression rings will indicate my willingness to roll up my sleeves with TS on a non-reproable issue. I am philosophically opposed to calling TS with cases they can't repro, and I've had a recent string of those, and a few that were in near-non-repro territory for a long while, wasting the analyst time.  Gregg Roemhildt‌ if you want to open a new case, which might be a good idea since you might have a slightly different environment, reference 02279274 and ask for "Danny R". Keep us posted! If you do open a case, one thing I suggest you do that we didn't do is do a Wireshark trace (not Fiddler, important distinction), and bring in a network analyst (your end) to definitively rule out "Network Related". ESRI may also have a "test" portal that you can connect to and they can run wireshark on their end, maybe? I have done that on cases past, but as of now, I don't have a WAN engineer handy.  Another note in my case the problem was specifically related to using Task Assistant Manger, where I could repro it every time, and not on start up, where I can't consistently repro it. A few more details would  help to. I've seen "unable to even use Pro" when users with Roaming Profiles (where their My Docs is on a network share) and the Pro default stuff is going on the share, as well as the number of PTL/AGOL groups a user is a member having an impact on start up time.  I too wonder why GetPortalsLivingAtlasCategories is "needed". Perhaps if it's "desired" some checkbox can turn it on, but for the rest of us whom need to get work done, and not stare at spinning blue circles all day, leave it off.  ... View more

In defense of ESRI, this has always been the case in ArcMap as well. http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/dimensions/creating-dimension-feature-classes-about-creating-.htm ... View more

This is a candidate for a social media post from ESRI, which could "Trend"..... ... View more