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JoshuaBixby
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(19 Idea Submissions)Latest Contributions by JoshuaBixby
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You may be consulting for/on IT, but it is clear you have very limited knowledge of GIS, so the earlier comment about hiring a consultant still applies. ArcGIS Enterprise is a complex platform with many components. Which components get deployed and how depends on the businesses requirements, but having requirements means little if it isn't accompanied with understanding the product itself.
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03-12-2026
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Optimizing a map service starts in ArcGIS Pro. ArcGIS Enterprise uses the same rendering engines as ArcGIS Pro, so anything that is slow to open and slow to render in Pro will be slow to start and slow to respond in ArcGIS Enterprise. Taking ArcGIS Enterprise out of the equation to start helps focus on data and map structure issues that negatively impact performance. Once the map is opening and rendering quickly in Pro, then start looking at publishing it and potentially optimizing service-related settings.
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03-03-2026
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I think the better option would be not having such drastic character restrictions in the first place. Some of the existing restrictions feel like we are back in the 1990s, or at least early 2000s.
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02-25-2026
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Assuming you already have seen the following, so I am posting this for others that may find this question and am looking for "best practice" from Esri. From ArcGIS Enterprise implementation guidance—ArcGIS Trust Center | Documentation: Disable the ArcGIS Server Primary Site Administrator (PSA) account, and demote or delete the Portal for ArcGIS Initial Administrator Account (IAA). Disabling the default accounts ensures a singular access path for administrators identified in the enterprise identity store and provides additional accountability.
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02-17-2026
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You should reach out to your account representative. There is a lot of nuance around licensing, and most users here will only comment on technical matters and not licensing matters.
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02-12-2026
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This is exactly the reason we continue to deploy ArcGIS Web Adaptor both on-prem and in the cloud when upstream network devices could replace it. In large organizations, managing across silos always adds time and complexity to change management, and that is best case. Worst case, fighting personalities and silos can make for real headaches.
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01-19-2026
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Part of the reason Esri has moved away from documenting single-service recommendations like the old "n+1" limit is that any such recommendation is so generic that it isn't really applicable, or at least isn't really helpful. Unless your ArcGIS Server site only has a single service published, which I doubt very few do, how a single service is tuned really depends on all the services on the machine. A rule like "n+1" may be a reasonable suggestion in a vacuum, but what if you have published many heavily-used services and tuned them all the same way? It won't be pretty for any of the services when the machine is maxing out its CPU (and likely memory as well) because many heavily used services all have "n+1" max instances. Tuning an ArcGIS Server site has so many factors to consider that it is hard for single, simple suggestion to be made. Unless you are trying to maximize or optimize computing resources too eek every last penny out of some capital expense or monthly hosting bill, at the end of the day the most basic metric of whether a service is tuned well enough is whether you are getting complaints from users. Start with the defaults Esri provides and see what feedback you get from users.
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01-17-2026
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It is an implementation artifact, not an actual desktop license or feature type. You can think of it loosely as the license for the license manager itself, but even that isn't exactly correct.
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01-07-2026
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The answer to this need used to be ArcGIS Engine, but that product was never migrated to ArcGIS Pro runtimes, and now Esri is retiring it this March.
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12-31-2025
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@AliTalaat22 , wildcard behavior is fairly standard across programming/scripting languages and commands. Is there specific wildcard behavior that you are finding unexpected? If so, can you provide an example?
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12-30-2025
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Unfortunately, I can't re-link to the public defect listing because Esri appears to have yanked it from being publicly available. I have never had that happen before, where a defect is logged and made public and then Esri removes it from public view. Here is the defect and description: BUG-000181467: When running the updateFederatedServerUrl operation after changing the server Web Adaptor name, all feature services become inaccessible and are not updated.
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12-23-2025
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Not sure if the following is related, but our organization just logged the following defect a couple weeks ago: BUG-000181467 for Portal for ArcGIS
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12-19-2025
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I have a hard time believing the data source itself is a factor, at least the difference between different types of geodatabases, but it is definitely worth looking into some more. If I can find some time I will run some additional tests. Regarding one of my earlier questions, what is the full REST call? Is f=json&token=Foo really the full URL that is causing changing ETAGs?
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12-18-2025
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Does your understanding come from documentation, experience, or somewhere else? If documentation, please share links to specific Esri documentation to back up the information. If experience, how much have you tested this specific situation? A quick 5-min check on a couple of the multi-machine ArcGIS Server sites I manage, so the opposite behavior you describe as expected. If you can share a reproducible test others can try to generate the results you expect, I would be interested.
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12-17-2025
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A quick check on a couple of the multi-machine ArcGIS Server sites that I manage show the same ETAG being generated from different machines in the same site when the same REST API calls are made to the different machines. Without knowing more about the specific REST API calls being made (is f=json&token=Foo really the complete URL?), I can't offer any additional comments.
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My kudoed posts
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| 1 | 06-11-2026 07:04 AM | |
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- Got a Kudo for Re: Regedit values to start up ArcGIS Pro as named user. 2 weeks ago
- Kudoed Re: DA Search Cursor Ignoring sql_clause for RandyMcGregor_BMcD. 2 weeks ago
- Posted Re: Arcade Expression on ArcGIS Pro Questions. 3 weeks ago
- Posted Re: Arcade Expression on ArcGIS Pro Questions. 3 weeks ago
- Posted Re: Add IP Allowlist Control for ArcGIS Enterprise REST Directory Browsing on ArcGIS Enterprise Ideas. 3 weeks ago
- Kudoed Re: What is wrong with this code? for JoseSanchez. 3 weeks ago
- Kudoed Re: Azure Virtual Desktop and ArcGIS Pro performance for Robert_LeClair. 3 weeks ago
- Kudoed Re: How to read server statistic correctly for berniejconnors. 3 weeks ago
- Kudoed Re: How to read server statistic correctly for HenryLindemann. 3 weeks ago
- Posted Re: How to use arcpy environment settings with python multiprocessing in arcgis pro? on Python Questions. 3 weeks ago
- Kudoed Re: Roadmap to Get Started with ArcGIS Enterprise for George_Thompson. 4 weeks ago
- Kudoed Re: Roadmap to Get Started with ArcGIS Enterprise for ArchitSrivastava. 4 weeks ago
- Posted Re: Select by Location on Selected Records on ArcGIS Pro Ideas. 4 weeks ago
- Got a Kudo for Re: Search on objectid. 07-21-2026 02:23 PM
- Kudoed Optional Governance Mode for MarGIS. 07-21-2026 06:44 AM
- Got a Kudo for Re: azure, arcgis enterprise 11.5 and poor browser performance. 07-17-2026 11:55 AM
- Posted Re: azure, arcgis enterprise 11.5 and poor browser performance on ArcGIS Enterprise in the cloud Questions. 07-17-2026 06:54 AM
- Kudoed Why Still Require a Security Question After Installing the ArcGIS Security 2026 Patch 2? for RyanUthoff. 07-10-2026 10:18 AM
- Posted Re: A workaoround to merging holes in larger polygons if eliminate tool is not available in basic version on ArcGIS Pro Questions. 07-10-2026 06:10 AM
- Posted Re: How to bypass raise Error in if else statement on ArcGIS Pro Questions. 07-10-2026 05:28 AM
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