Latest Contributions by RyanUthoff

I am currently looking at migration strategies for migrating our on-premise ArcGIS Enterprise deployment to AWS. I know there are a couple migration strategies we could use, but the one I am looking at is the "lift and shift" strategy. This is where we just copy our VMs from on-premise and put them in the AWS environment. My question is if this is a recommended or viable migration strategy we should use? Or would we be better off using other migration strategies, such as using webgisdr to do a backup and restore of our servers? We have a 4 machine deployment, along with the config store also stored on a server, all of which will be migrated into AWS. Since it is a "lift and shift", all hostnames will be staying the same. The only thing that will probably change are the IP addresses. But we used hostnames when configuring ArcGIS Enterprise, so I think we will be okay with that. The "lift and shift" strategy is the most simplest and straightforward for us, but I haven't seen much documentation on if this is a viable strategy for migrating ArcGIS Enterprise into AWS. Or if this is just a bad idea with disaster written all over it. Are there any reasons why we shouldn't use this migration strategy? Or anything to look out for if we choose this migration strategy? ... View more

I am looking to do a reverse viewshed analysis. I have a DEM and I can use the Viewshed tool to determine what is visible using a set of observer points. However, I would like to do the reverse of this where I use a DEM to find observer points that can maximize visibility with the least amount of observer points as possible. Basically, I want to find observer points that will make all areas in my DEM "visible." Hopefully that makes sense. Is this something that is possible to do within Esri? ... View more

I'm currently using ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9 and the latest version of field maps on my phone. I noticed today that maps that are shared with the entire organization, but are not a part of a group and that you aren't an owner of that map, are not visible in the Field Maps app. For example, User A shares a map in Portal with the entire organization, but does not share it with a group. Since you are sharing with the entire organization, it shouldn't be necessary to set group permissions. User B signs into the Field Maps app (both in iOS and Android) and the map is not visible. The only way for the map to be visible is to: Share the map with a group and make sure User B is in the group Make User B the owner of the map Having to create a group to share a map that is already visible to the entire organization is a little convoluted. Why do we have to create a group to be able to view maps in Field Maps when the map is already shared with the organization? My idea is to allow maps that are shared with the organization to be visible in Field Maps without having to create a group, share the map with the group, and adding any users to the group. ... View more

It has been brought to my attention that a bug within ArcGIS Pro will not be addressed because it is "not in current product plan." For reference, see bug description and Esri's response below. Esri BUG-000123133 - The Share Package tool fails with the error message, “ERROR 999999: Something unexpected caused the tool to fail. Failed to execute (SharePackage)” when the user is a part of more than 53 groups in the ArcGIS Enterprise portal." Public Explanation: Will not be addressed. Despite the error message, the process completes successfully. User may disregard the error or remove the user from any unneeded Portal groups until they are in fewer than 54. It is disappointing that Esri's response to this error message is pretty much "technically, it still works so just disregard the error message." This error makes it significantly harder when scripting this tool in Python because the tool fails, causing the entire Python script to fail (without adding any exception handling). Since it appears that this behavior is acceptable by Esri's standards, I propose that Esri update its Share Package tool documentation to show how and when it is "normal" for this tool to fail and any workarounds to get around this issue. Otherwise, you will have other users also encountering this issue and needing to know how to resolve it. I'm sure other users would be appreciative if this bug was documented in the tool documentation so they knew it was expected behavior, especially since a lot of the bugs aren't publicly searchable (to my knowledge). ... View more

Is there a way to customize or modify the Survey123 Item ID in Portal?  For example, changing https://domain.com/portal/home/item.html?id=4a4f0659e8dd442a9adcfcac87bb0f53 Is it possible to change that item ID? Since Portal seems to randomly generate an ID every time you publish a Survey123 form, it would be nice to be able to customize it, especially when going from a development Portal to production. When testing in a development environment, it will generate an item ID and we can test everything using that item ID. Then, when we move to production, it would be nice to be able to maintain that item ID so we don't have to change it in other S123 forms, maps, etc. from the development S123 item ID to the production S123 item ID. Is there anyway to change it? Or, are there any other workflows that could we could use to easily migrate S123 forms from a development to production environment? ... View more

I've seen various posts and documentation about how you can use either S3 or DynamoDB as the config store for ArcGIS Server in AWS. I've seen Esri documentation that uses DynamoDB as the config store (DynamoDB Config Store). And then I've seen Esri blog posts that uses S3 as the config store (S3 Config Store) What I haven't been able to find any documentation on though is which one is better to use? Or if there are any special considerations we need to think about when choosing one or the other?  Does one have any better performance than the other? ... View more