Latest Contributions by MichaelDavis3

I'd check in with your ESRI rep - I will say that automated service publishing is something we do all the time with standalone ArcGIS Server and it's totally fine.  Doing that in Portal is sort of a unique twist on that and I'm not quite sure what the correct path would be from a license-compliance perspective.  Hopefully there is someone from ESRI who can weigh in on this thread. ... View more

My guess is you need to set up your script to run under a service account that is tied to a named user, however setting things up this way with Portal probably violates your ESRI user agreement. ... View more

It would be fantastic if this could be implemented with an option for a generic bearing and distance entry.  We currently use the Bad Elf Flex with a paired Truepulse 360 for higher-precision offset data collection, but in a lot of cases another instrument can be used to quickly determine the bering and distance for entry into Field Maps. ... View more

That was it - thanks! ... View more

Thanks randoodlydingdangdodlyWilliams... if that is your real name.  It would be great if ESRI could include guidance or advice on the "fix" applied by tools like this: https://github.com/logpresso/CVE-2021-44228-Scanner I understand you would prefer everyone update their ArcGIS Enterprise servers to 10.8.1+ but here it is 2021 and ArcGIS Server upgrades continue to be multi-day affairs, fraught with peril, requiring system snapshots and frequently failing and requiring rollbacks.  There is a reason so many customers are not on the latest version of AGS.   ... View more

See this link for details: https://blog.cloudflare.com/inside-the-log4j2-vulnerability-cve-2021-44228/ Essentially someone can trigger a URL and download a payload if Log4j has access to the internet. The application doesn't have to have anything to do with LDAP it's just a way to trigger the URL.   With a : present in the key, as in Example Removed to get through ESRI WAF there’s no prefix and the LDAP server is queried for the object. And these Lookups can be used in both the configuration of Log4j as well as when lines are logged. So all an attacker has to do is find some input that gets logged and add something like  Example Removed to get through ESRI WAF. This could be a common HTTP header like User-Agent(that commonly gets logged) or perhaps a form parameter like username that might also be logged.   ... View more

Great news - Standalone mobile geodatabases is huge.  We are seeing more and more apps where the ESRI bits are components of a larger app and we need to primarily interact with custom APIs.  Fantastic timing on this 🙂 ... View more

The 10.2.x to 100.x transition is large enough that in some cases it is more efficient to just rebuild the app from a clean slate.  For cases where that wasn't possible for us we were averaging 60-80 hours to get everything converted over.  The largest shift for us (with Objective C) was the change to completion blocks for loading feature tables and geodatabses. ... View more

Hi Kerry - Over the years we've looked into options for offline communication and data sharing between field crews including evaluating some of the ideas behind, if not quite the implementation of, Atak from DOD.  That sort of domain-specific functionality really hasn't been the right fit for what we were envisioning, but I am intrigued by the COT interoperability of the GeoChat functionality and the ability to attach features as described in the Mission Responder literature. I'll be honest, at this point that's about as far as we've been able to get - our ESRI BPA client managers informed us that Mission Responder was not available for evaluation in our lab environment due to some IP licensing costs so I have yet to see it in action. I think at the end of the day we are interested in implementing a common field safety and coordination layer across our apps that would facilitate communication and location sharing between app users in a disconnected environment.  This would be independent of any data collection/sync workflow and probably be geared specifically toward intra-team coordination as opposed to sending track logs back to a central server like the tracking functionality in Field Maps. We have been looking at possibly using the Brigefy API do implement this, however I figured it was worth asking if this is an area where ESRI is thinking of supporting before we go off and roll our own solution.  We've had the experience over the years (offline, location tracking, building floorpans, external GNSS, etc...) where we implement our own solution to something only to have ESRI roll something out a year or two later.  Not a terrible problem to have, but we do try to plan ahead when possible 🙂 ... View more

Yep Windows does file locking whereas iOS and Android don't.  You'll most likely have to specifically kill any objects using that package before you can touch the files. One thing I've done is to append a date stamp to my .geodatabase downloads and store the current file name in preferences.  Then when I need to update I download the new version with a new name, rebuild/refresh my ESRI stuff to point at the new database and then archive or delete the old one. ... View more

Did some further testing after scaling the VM up to the NV8as_V4 which has the following specs: 8 CPU 28 GiB RAM 1/4 mi25 GPU Things seemed much more comfortable in this configuration.  I was able to open a project with multiple maps and 3D views with imported BIM data, 3D buildings, as well as some really large feature services.  Overall performance was smooth - more than acceptable for a VM over Remote Desktop. ... View more