Latest Contributions by JoshuaBixby

When applying multiple patches, the more efficient and effective approach is to use msiexec | Microsoft Learn multiple patch option: /update Install patches option. If you're applying multiple updates, you must separate them using a semi-colon (;). Using this approach you can apply 2, 3, or 4 patches in nearly the same time as a single patch, and even applying 10-15 patches only takes a minute or two longer than a single patch.  Plus, using this approach ensures patches are installed in the proper order because the MSI installer takes care of sorting out order using MsiPatchSequence embedded in the MSP files. ... View more

It would be more helpful if you shared details.  For example, what happened in one specific instance and what did you expect to happen?  What is the structure of the data set and what was the selection criteria you used? When it comes to AI, trust but verify.  Without knowing anything about your data, your workflow, and what you asked Copilot specifically; it is hard to give much weight to a warning like this. ... View more

@SimonSchütte_ct , the Esri Support article linked to is less "deauthorizing" and more "disabling."  Deauthorizing implies returning the license, which is what happens on the desktop side, and renaming the local keycodes file doesn't return anything to Esri.  And cancelling a license file isn't exactly the same as deauthorizing licenses either.  Cancelling a license file does return activations back to the pool, which is the same outcome as deauthorizing a license, but not all ArcGIS Server licenses are activated using a license file. For me I see the links as workarounds to Esri not having a proper deauthorization mechanism for ArcGIS Server licenses, which is why I voted for this idea, but as I already mentioned I won't hold my breath they will ever create a proper deauthorization mechanism for ArcGIS Server licenses. ... View more

I will upvote this idea, but I am definitely not holding my breath.  My last job was working for a large federal government agency with a sizeable Enterprise Agreement.  This issue was raised to Esri multiple times over 10+ years (could even be 20), and Esri expressed no interest in supporting deauthorization of ArcGIS Server licenses. ... View more

I have used some of the publicly available reverse-engineered FGDB specifications to do this exact same kind of thing.  I even created a locking mechanism that emulates what some SDK calls do to ensure I am playing nice within the FGDB when reading it files, but that is a different discussion thread. Looking at your network dataset times, I suspect 2/3 to 3/4 would actually benefit from multi-processing instead of multi-threading.  The bottleneck with Walk isn't the FGDB API but something in either Walk itself or internal code that Walk depends upon.  It is perfectly fine to have multiple, even many, processes reading the same FGDB at the same time without issue.  Even though initializing an arcpy license does take a few seconds, if enumerating a data type in an network share FGDB takes tens of seconds, that 3-second hit from initializing a library isn't that big. ... View more

Feel free to recycle the gist however you please.  There is something odd, odd in the sense that I can't explain it yet, with how da.Walk is working with multi-threading.  I spent several hours yesterday devising different tests, and I may be finally getting close to isolating why the multi-threaded da.Walk results aren't as robust as one would expect.   ... View more

I know there is more to your repo than just getting lists of feature classes and tables from file geodatabases, but when it comes to getting lists of feature classes and tables from file geodatabases I am not seeing any benefit most of the time from using multiprocessing vs sequential calling regardless of network latency.  The code structure I have been comparing is (da.Walk initialization/workaround handled upstream from code snippet): # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Shared worker # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def walk(ds: str, dtype: str | None = None) -> list[Path]: paths: list[Path] = [] for root, dirnames, filenames in Walk(ds, datatype=dtype): for itm in entries: paths.append(Path(root) / itm) return paths # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # The parallel and sequential dispatchers. Keep these as structurally # similar as possible. # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def extract_types_threaded(ds: str, dtypes: list[str]) -> dict[str, list[Path]]: """One thread per datatype. Matches OP post.""" data: dict[str, list[Path]] = {} with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=len(dtypes)) as executor: futures = {executor.submit(walk, ds, dtype): dtype for dtype in dtypes} for future in as_completed(futures): data[futures[future]] = future.result() return data def extract_types_sequential(ds: str, dtypes: list[str]) -> dict[str, list[Path]]: """One call per datatype, main thread only.""" return {dtype: walk(ds, dtype) for dtype in dtypes} If you are so inclined and have the time, I posted ArcPy: Generate FGDB Collection as a GitHub gist to create a collection of differently structured file geodatabases for synthetic testing.  I would be interested in what the timings look like for you getting feature class and table lists from these FGDBs on your network file share.  And what is the latency to your network file share from the client running the tests. What a default run produces Running generate_fgdb_collection.py with no arguments writes the collection to ./collection/ and builds every profile in the catalog. Each profile produces one .gdb directory plus a sibling .manifest.json for the correctness checker. Per-profile breakdown Profile FCs Tables FDs RCs Total Purpose empty 0 0 0 0 0 Zero-of-everything edge case tiny 4 2 1 1 8 Sanity, one of each type flat_small 20 10 0 0 30 Isolates root enumeration flat_medium 100 50 0 5 155 Forum-thread baseline nested_medium 100 50 5 5 160 Tests FD recursion wide_datasets 100 0 20 0 120 Stresses FD count deep_only 40 0 1 0 41 Single FD holds all rc_heavy 20 20 0 50 90 Stresses RC enumeration xl 500 200 10 30 740 Stress tier, largest workload Total 884 332 37 91 1,344     FCs counts all feature classes including those inside feature datasets, so nested profiles roll up. Total is the sum of FCs, tables, FDs, and RCs for that profile; it excludes domains (which Walk does not enumerate). Every FC and table gets five baseline fields (NAME, VALUE, CATEGORY, CREATED, FOREIGN_KEY) plus three deterministic-random extras. All objects are empty; Walk enumerates schema, not rows. ... View more

Is it always the same machine becoming unstable?  Since this is a multi-machine site, I would put one of the machines into maintenance mode for a day or two or three and see if the site remains stable with just one machine.  If the same machine becomes unstable now, drop that one into maintenance mode first.  Then swap which one is in maintenance mode.  If the site is stable when only running on one machine but highly unstable when only running on the other, you know that something likely went wrong with the upgrade process on that one machine.  At that point, chasing gremlins is seldom worth it, just drop the one machine from the site, uninstalled and reinstall software, and then re-join it back to site. ... View more

I will have to check out the library on GH.  I don't fully understand what the screenshot is showing?  Are you just running the same code block in a loop using the same data set(s) and arguments?  If so, the file system caching done at the OS level and the caching happening in ArcGIS code is likely influencing the results.  For code like this, the cold call performance is what is important, right?  What types of latency are you dealing with to your network file shares?  I know your screenshot is for a test database or example database, but are these times slow enough to warrant the time to optimize an approach in the first place? ... View more

Given Esri makes no statements about which modules, DLLs, etc... are thread safe, the safe bet is to assume ArcPy is not thread safe.  The initialization quirk you found using arcpy.da.Walk with a ThreadPoolExecutor is both an example and indicator that arcpy.da.Walk is not completely thread safe.  Although you did find a workaround to initialize arcpy.da.Walk, I am not sure the benefits of running multi-threading (if any) outweigh any risks of multi-threading non thread-safe code. Have you tried doing sequential calls and compared performance?  The internal caching that the libraries behind arcpy.da.Walk use should result in fairly performant sequential calls. ... View more

To @BriannaEttley and the Esri staff that helped pull this information together and share it, thanks.  Even though many of us interactive with other MVPs on a fairly regular basis, it is challenging to keep up on the goings on of all MVP members.  This is a nice way for all of us to see what others are up to and recognize some of the more meaningful contributions from MVPs.  Cheers. ... View more

When you logged in as the domain service account the other day and successfully ran the model, did you get any dialog pop-ups?  Specifically, what there any dialog relating to accepting a certificate? ... View more

Thanks for following up and sharing the root cause and solution.  This is the kind of small thing that can really trip people up, so getting it out in the web more broadly can only help. ... View more

If you haven't already, it might be worth reading through Solved: how to generate correct token for a federated Ente... - Esri Community.  Esri's various APIs handle authentication workflows correctly, and handling them with hand-rolled code commonly trips people up.  I can't say I fully understand your authentication workflow. It seems like you are using what is commonly called the two-step exchange, i.e., authentication first happens on Portal to generate a Portal token, and then that Portal token is used to create an ArcGIS Server token using the generateToken endpoint with the token and serverUrl parameters.  Portal validates your Portal token, then creates a new ArcGIS Server token encrypted with the federated server's shared key. The resulting token is meant to be used with that specific federated ArcGIS Server and can be validated locally by that server. Portal cannot validate it because it was encrypted with the server's shared key, not the Portal's. If you need to validate a token against the Portal's portals/self endpoint, use the Portal token directly — before the exchange step. ... View more