Latest Contributions by RyanUthoff

‎02-13-2026

Thank you for submitting this idea and linking my similar idea to it! I definitely agree that this idea is much needed. As I said in the idea I submitted, Esri states in their ArcGIS Enterprise Hardening Guide that "using any administrator account without MFA is a high-risk configuration", yet the WebGISDR tool requires an administrator account which is not compatible with MFA. So the WebGISDR is essentially designed to go against security best practices. On a side note, I attended a session at the UC last year where they stated they're essentially revamping the WebGISDR tool, so I'm really hoping that security best practices gets incorporated into it.

‎02-10-2026

So if you click a feature to open the pop-up, the pop-up doesn't open until after the layer finishes drawing? If so, then that sounds like normal behavior to me (at least it is in my experience with ExB). I think what it will come down to is improving the performance of your zoning layer. I'm assuming your ExB app and data is all hosted in AGOL? If that's the case, you can try configuring some of the settings on the hosted feature layer (such as the spatial index and optimize layer drawing). This blog post has a lot of good information. I don't think it would hurt to reproject the data to Web Mercator. The data essentially gets reprojected on the fly anyway when accessing it through the web map. So theoretically, it will take less processing power to display the data. But in practice, that usually happens pretty fast.

‎02-09-2026

I'm assuming that means that you just want to use the spatial analyst tools in ArcGIS Pro, and then publish the results on ArcGIS Enterprise. If that's the case, then you should be okay with ArcGIS Enterprise Standard. Of course, it's always good to speak with your Esri account representative where they will be able to confirm that, but based on the functionality matrix, you just need the Professional Plus user type with ArcGIS Enterprise Standard.

‎02-09-2026

Will you need to use 3D Analyst and/or Spatial Analyst tools in ArcGIS Enterprise? I think that will be the determining question. You're going to need the Professional Plus user type, no question about that. But you will only need ArcGIS Enterprise Advanced if you plan on using the spatial analyst tools in ArcGIS Enterprise as well. Here is a good functionality matrix provided by Esri that will help you determine what you need: https://www.esri.com/content/dam/esrisites/en-us/media/manuals/arcgis-enterprise-functionality-matrix-current.pdf

‎02-05-2026

It depends on your definition of read-only, but you could also just disable all editing on your feature layer without creating a view. I think creating a read-only view is the better option, but technically, you can just disable editing on the feature layer and that would make it read-only.

‎02-05-2026

Someone might be able to provide a better solution, but I have a couple different ideas with the knowledge I have, but none of it will display changes in the Excel file in real time. Use Python to make the updates. There are various implementations of this, but you can use Python to identify the changes in the Excel file, and then have it update the SQL table. Do the same thing as what I said above, except do it in FME. None of this will push the data up in real time, but you could schedule it every 15 minutes, hour, etc.

‎02-05-2026

I don't know an official answer, but historically, any new functionality introduced in AGOL is typically released in ArcGIS Enterprise in the Enterprise version following the release in AGOL. Technically, 12.0 was released right after that functionality was released in AGOL in October of last year. But, that might have been too soon for it to make it to ArcGIS Enterprise, so I would guess it will be released in 12.1 later this year.

‎02-05-2026

Esri did streamline some of this process last year. Here is a blog post that I think helps explain some of the changes you are seeing. Anyway, you have the S123 form itself along with the _form feature layer shared publicly (which is what the S123 form is connected to), so I think you should be good. The only other thing to check is to make sure your feature layer settings are configured correctly. Since it is shared publicly, what you can do is just open an incognito tab and try to access the data anonymously to verify you can't access any of the underlying data. Here is another blog post that might be helpful for you as well, although it's also a little dated.

‎02-02-2026

Esri removed all of the 11.2 documentation that you can select from in the toggles because it's already in mature support (at least, I'm assuming that's the reason). But yeah, it's definitely strange that we encountered that issue. I'm assuming it's not a common issue, otherwise there would have been a fix for it, or at least talked about here. But I was just posting here in case anyone had also encountered that issue. Or to hopefully help someone else who's actively experiencing the issue.

‎02-02-2026

Yep!

‎02-02-2026

I just upgraded one of our ArcGIS Enterprise environments from 11.2 to 11.5 and noticed that the upgrade "breaks" the pg_hba.conf file in the ArcGIS Data Store. When using the allow connection data store command line tool to allow connections to the ArcGIS Data Store, it adds them to the pg_hba.conf file like this: host db username ip/hostname scram-sha-256 However, after upgrading to 11.5, the upgrade changed all the entries from "host" to "hostssl" which breaks any and all connections to it (including the ArcGIS Server). For example, it changed it to this: hostssl db username ip/hostname scram-sha-256 After upgrading, all of my hosted services didn't work and saw a "bad user login" message in the ArcGIS Server logs. Luckily, I've worked with the ArcGIS Data Store enough to know what this message means. Running the allow connection data store command "fixes" this by adding a new entry with only the "host" option. What I am looking for is a little bit of clarity on why this happened, because it appears that the ArcGIS Data Store isn't even compatible with any "hostssl" connections in the first place for two reasons: The previously existing ArcGIS Server entry in the pg_hba.conf file didn't work by default after the upgrade, nor did the Esri upgrade mitigate this by adding a new "host" only entry. Even after upgrading, the allow connection data store command line adds entries only as "host" and not "hostssl", despite the upgrade changing everything to "hostssl". I'm unable to find anywhere in Esri's upgrade documentation stating that re-adding entries to the pg_hba.conf file is a required step, so I'm just wondering why Esri changes all of the entries in the pg_hba.conf file when it's not even compatible in the first place? If anything, hopefully this will help others who encounter this issue considering this is not a documented step in the upgrade process.

‎01-31-2026

I've been following this thread closely since I was eventually going to be upgrading to 11.5. I upgraded one of our ArcGIS Enterprise environments today and ran into one issue with the ArcGIS Data Store. Upon upgrading the ArcGIS Data Store, I was not able to validate it in ArcGIS Server Manager and none of my hosted services worked. The server manager logs stated "bad user login" or something like that in reference to the data store. Luckily, I have enough experience with the ArcGIS Data Store and making direct connections to it to know that I need to use the allow connection command to allow our ArcGIS Server machine to access the ArcGIS Data Store (which under the hood, just adds an entry in the pg_hba.conf file). After running that command, everything worked fine. Unfortunately, this is not documented in Esri's data store upgrade documentation. I also don't know why we'd have to allow our ArcGIS Server to access the data store when it worked perfectly fine before the upgrade. We didn't make any architectural changes (hostname changes, IP changes, etc.) during this upgrade. Anyway, just thought I'd post this here to hopefully help anyone else that might encounter this issue.

‎01-26-2026

Per the bug page, this was fixed in ArcGIS Pro 3.6. Just because a version is still "supported" doesn't mean that every bug will be fixed in that version. In my experience, only the "major" bugs will be fixed in previous versions. Otherwise, anything else will be fixed in new versions going forward. https://support.esri.com/en-us/bug/the-arcgis-pro-taskbar-icon-is-no-longer-readable-after-bug-000177777

‎01-21-2026

I can replicate this issue. It's kind of weird that Esri would allow a user to delete their own account through the rest endpoint (this is the case even when not using a custom role and just using a viewer user type and role). Luckily, it appears the changes the user can make are isolated to their own account and not anyone else. Also, it appears that the user isn't allowed to do other things, like create groups, etc. which is good. With that being said, in my opinion, Esri allowing a viewer only user type (or an account with a role without administrative privileges) to delete their own account is an explicit violation of Esri's own security roles. If the role privilege below is disabled, Esri should not allow that user to be able to delete any accounts, not even their own. RyanUthoff_0-1769006747255.png On a side note, if you don't want people having access to the portal rest endpoint at all, you can always disable it. https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/11.5/administer/windows/disabling-the-arcgis-portal-directory.htm

‎01-21-2026

What do you mean by you want to run the python externally? Does that mean you do not want to use ArcPy since that requires ArcGIS Pro (even if you run it completely outside of ArcGIS Pro)? If you're fine using ArcPy, @DanPatterson's solution should work since you can set that parameter in the Python script.

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Re: WebGISDR authentication options

Re: Experience Builder Pop-Up

Re: Acquisition of an Enterprise GIS

Re: Acquisition of an Enterprise GIS

Re: What are the different ways of making an AGOL feature layer read-only?

Re: Updating a feature class when there are changes to an Excel row

Re: Configure data sources in ArcGIS Enterprise

Re: Ensuring results from public survey are secure - Survey123 Connect

Re: ArcGIS Data Store Breaks pg_hba.conf File During Upgrade

Re: ArcGIS Data Store Breaks pg_hba.conf File During Upgrade

ArcGIS Data Store Breaks pg_hba.conf File During Upgrade

Re: 11.5 upgrade observations

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Re: Custom member role without permissions

Re: Preserving GlobalID from enterprise database to fileGDB

Re: Order of Operations for Enterprise Upgrade

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Re: ArcGIS Data Store upgrade 11.5 to 12.1 fails

Re: Limit the size of the ArcGIS Data Store

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