Latest Contributions by ThomasColson

Can you post more details of your environment? There are many hundreds of permutations of database, GIS software, and OS versions, each with their own quirks and configuration requiremetns. What version of operating system is the GIS Server, Database Server, and the client installed on (where client is either a web browser or desktop ArcMa)? Are you using GIS or Web Tier Authentication? Are you using a Web Adaptor? If so, what flavor of web server? IIS or Apache? If Web Tier, are you using Windows Active Directory for security? LDAP? SAML? If so, are you enforcing PIV credentials? HTTPS (hope you are)? What flavor of database? Oracle? SQL? Is a domain service account starting the database? Have the right permissions been assigned to the feature class in question? Has the right group (role) been assigned to the rest service? Or is this a service based of a hosted service (FGDB in the server data store)? It would be very helpful if you could post exact steps to reproduce....think like you're instructing a robot to make a jelly sandwich. I say this tongue in cheek, I probably still won't know what your problem is, but including specific and environment details will likely get your question answered quickly. ... View more

Can you post more details of your environment? There are many hundreds of permutations of database, GIS software, and OS versions, each with their own quirks and configuration requiremetns. What version of operating system is the GIS Server, Database Server, and the client installed on (where client is either a web browser or desktop ArcMa)? Are you using GIS or Web Tier Authentication? Are you using a Web Adaptor? If so, what flavor of web server? IIS or Apache? If Web Tier, are you using Windows Active Directory for security? LDAP? SAML? If so, are you enforcing PIV credentials? HTTPS (hope you are)? What flavor of database? Oracle? SQL? Is a domain service account starting the database? Have the right permissions been assigned to the feature class in question? Has the right group (role) been assigned to the rest service? Or is this a service based of a hosted service (FGDB in the server data store)? It would be very helpful if you could post exact steps to reproduce....think like you're instructing a robot to make a jelly sandwich. I say this tongue in cheek, I probably still won't know what your problem is, but including specific and environment details will likely get your question answered quickly. ... View more

"Generate" will generate a Certificate Signing Request for you to send to a CA to have the default certificate "authenticated" with a real trust chain. When you installed Server, by default, a self-signed certificate was provisioned. Have you enabled HTTP and HTTPS on your Arc GIS Server? If so, you should be able to hit https://[host name]:6443/arcgis/admin However, if you're going through the trouble to ssl-enable an ArcGIS Site, I'd consider using a Web Adaptor in front of it, as well as upgrading to 10.3 or higher. ... View more

that "Should" have worked. Can you give more details, what version of ArcSDE, SQL, is the FC using Esri Binary, Geog, or Geom Storage? What is the SRID? Where there any null or outside of scope values? If using Geog/WGS84, you have have created an outside-of-sphere error, which would result in the error you describe. See Repetitive Attribute Values Automated with SQL  for an example of how STPointFromText can be automated. ... View more

Based on the screen shot you show, you're hitting Portal on the 7443 interface, which is the Tomcat web server component of Portal, which is typically used for admin connections (portal.com:7443/arcgis/admin). The error you're getting is the default self-signed certificate that installs with Portal on the Tomcat side of things. You should be hitting Portal through a web adaptor, AND, you should have a valid certificate installed on the Web Adaptor AND the Portal(GIS) Server. It seems like your IT folks put a certificate on your Web Adaptor (web server) but not the Portal GIS server. ... View more

You CAN do this, albeit, not recommended: go through all the steps to Active Directory-enable your portal (there is extensive documentation on how to do this). EXCEPT: Do NOT enable the SAML connection to Active D federation. THEN: Create Portal, non-AD accounts using the command-line Portal Account Creation tool (which will create a local ptl admin account), then login as admin (u) and drop it down to user or publisher. This could be handy if you want to publish organization-wide items such as base maps, but don't have confidence that the AD user that has been tasked to do so will be around for long. Again, not recommended, as this requires you to NOT disable the PSA in an AD environment. I'd really think about getting your IT to create a generic AD account(s) for this purpose, you open up some security holes with the road you want to go down. ... View more

There are ArcTool Box and ArcMap tools for creating views, I'm not real familiar with them...I prefer going through SSMS where I can have more control over the process, then, Arc Map, Add Data, Query Layer, cut and paste the query syntax. ... View more

Russell the tool appears to only deal with one-way sync: from the device, back to the feature service, and assumes that the provisioning of the device via wireless was successful. Are there, or are there not, any plan to add the ability to provision and sync collector via USB for those of us with no access to wireless at all? ... View more

I'd take a hard look at why you can't use the SQL spatial types. Is that an organizational administrative requirement? Esri binary is pretty limited in functionality outside of the Esri stack, whereas with the spatial types (Geography or Geometry), the opportunities for backend DB updating and re-packaging of data are pretty limitless. For example, using SQL spatial, I'm able to pull raw GPS Collar data from several species of animals, perform some post-processing, build some time/distance tracks, and delivery a daily movement map of each animal to users via Portal, with no "human" intervention at all. No way I could pull that off with Binary storage. The same could be done with GeoJSON as your output, there are several examples out there of folks converting SQL Spatial to GeoJSON. As an alternative, you might want to look at CartoDB, which has a very feature-rich API and more elegantly supports real-time updating via JSON (both directions), and IMHO, is far easier to code against than the ArcGIS REST API. ... View more

Dustin, unfortunately, in today's security environment, disabling SSL requirement is no longer an option if secure windows auth to PTL is mandated. Given that Portal users still need to display map services from outside the organization that are not behind SSL, I would hope that Esri has some guidance on this issue. ... View more

Have there been any updates from Esri on this? In todays "the sky is falling" security environment, unchecking the "Require SSL" is not an option, yet we have a requirement to load non-SSL map services with our own SSL services. Likewise, telling users how to circumvent the "mixed content" warnings is not a good idea either. Certainly there must be some sort of proxy configuration that can act as a work-around? Can't imagine Esri put Portal 10.3.1 into production knowing this limitation. ... View more

Have there been any updates from Esri on this? In todays "the sky is falling" security environment, unchecking the "Require SSL" is not an option, yet we have a requirement to load non-SSL map services with our own SSL services. Likewise, telling users how to circumvent the "mixed content" warnings is not a good idea either. Certainly there must be some sort of proxy configuration that can act as a work-around? Can't imagine Esri put Portal 10.3.1 into production knowing this limitation. ... View more