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See this thread also: https://community.esri.com/thread/250155-wheres-arcgis-for-personal-use  ... View more

ArcGIS for Personal Use is not a downloadable "product" by itself, it is a licensing type. This means you simply need to download & install the products from the My ESRI site that you can access if logged in on the ESRI website after having bought the license, and in the case of ArcMap / ArcGIS for Desktop, separately authorize the software with instructions you should be getting from ESRI once you've completed the purchase and ESRI acknowledged that. For ArcGIS Pro, you do not need to authorize the software like with ArcMap, simply being logged in with the same account that was registered for your Personal Use license, should work. Pro will prompt you for that if you start it up. ... View more

I think the chances of that ever happening are next to nil. Pro is so tight up with the whole Windows and Windows Presentation Foundation thing, which isn't going to be available in a Linux environment anytime soon, if discussions like these are a reliable measure: Make WPF cross-platform (MacOS and Linux support) · Issue #48 · dotnet/wpf · GitHub  Have you tried using Oracle's free Virtualbox once? I currently run an Ubuntu instance with PostgreSQL 11 in Virtualbox on Windows 10 as host, and access it from Python using the 'pyodbc' package that you can install from the ArcGIS Pro package manager. Works really nicely to create tables and views, that I subsequently access as ArcGIS 'Query Layers' after adding an ObjectID column using the 'Add Incrementing ID Field' geoprocessing tool. I even use Python multi-threading and record-by-record updates to insert and generalize data in PostGIS. Here's an image of my small test Core i7 server going flat out on all 4 cores / 8 threads generalizing data using Python multi-threading from ArcGIS Pro: ... View more

Well, there is the ArGIS for Personal Use program, that gives you a whole smack of software of ESRI, including ArcGIS for Desktop, ArcGIS Pro, the SDKs, most extensions etc, for a very affordable per year price (here in the Netherlands 100 euro / year): ArcGIS for Personal Use Program | ArcGIS Desktop Advanced for Personal Use  Only caveat is that it may not be used for commercial work, only non-profit. I guess your situation may be a bit of a grey area, depending on how you have been contracted. If you are on the payroll of these organizations, them having the licenses to cover your day-to-day job, and not hired as external consultant, I guess there is not a whole lot wrong with using the Personal Use license because it would in fact be just another additional sale for ESRI (albeit a small one compared to a full commercial seat), but you'd have to contact an ESRI representative to be sure. ... View more

As always, your likely best resource is the "System Design Strategies" Wiki pages maintained by ESRI as part of the Wiki GIS platform: System Design Strategies - GIS Wiki | The GIS Encyclopedia  And things like the "Capacity Planning" tool referenced therein, a spreadsheet that allows you to do calculations. More general information about GIS accessible here: New to GIS - GIS Wiki | The GIS Encyclopedia  ... View more

Jamal, You really should spend a bit of time to familiarize yourself with all the options in the Maplex label engine. Yes, it can be intimidating in the beginning, but once you get to know some of the most important settings, and develop a feeling for their effect, you should be able to handle these label jobs fine. The lower image shows what can be achieved with careful Maplex label settings and distinct label classes, all of the labeling in that image is dynamically placed by Maplex. Not a single manual intervention. And ultimately, if you want full control, Annotation is the way to go, but that is largely manual placement. However, I don't think that is what you want, and dynamic labeling with Maplex has the advantage of well... being dynamic! It will adjust to changes in the data (although feature linked annotation is based on field contents as well). ... View more

I noticed you have used some pretty big symbols. If you've set a label offset, and it uses an offset from the feature geometry, the problem may actually be that the set label offset is to small to avoid overlap with the large capital symbol and that might cause the loss of the capital label. Try the "Measure offset from the exact symbol outline" option instead, to see if that helps and if it makes the capital label appear. ... View more

What is that you actually want to achieve, have the labels somehow "fit" your country polygons by rotating them? Or do you want to rotate the entire map including all of its labels? If the former, I think Maplex's curve fitting and label font scaling options are far more appropriate and convenient than some manually set rotation angle. E.g., see these nice examples of labels that fit the glaciers by using Maplex curved fitting options and font scaling. ... View more

This is the view of the available "Developer Tools" download in "My ESRI" for my Personal Use license, so ArcObjects SDK is available. However, I strongly recommend to develop in Pro's new SDK. ArcObjects is dead in the waters with ArcMap eventually going. Alternative is Python scripting. I developed an ArcMap / Pro and Python 2.x/3.x compatible toolbox with Python scripting that runs really nicely in both apps using the Python "future" package, so essentially writing 3.x code. E.g. put this in the header of all your scripts for a start: from __future__ import print_function from __future__ import absolute_import from __future__ import unicode_literals from __future__ import division ... View more

Due to a serious issue related to changed File Geodatabase locking behavior in ArcGIS Pro 2.5, causing an important tool from my to fail due to unrleased locks (ArcMap and Pro 2.4.x were fine with the same code), I already reverted back to to Pro 2.4.3 by uninstalling 2.5 and re-installing 2.4.3. One thing that does seem to be handled better by Pro than ArcMap, is that Pro 2.4.3 seems capable of opening 2.5 documents, although it will drop incompatible stuff related to the newer version. If you haven't used anything special related to Pro 2.5, you should be fine though. ESRI already releases x.x.x bugfix versions, last version of 2.4 was 2.4.3 after all. They just don't yet release "service packs" with much larger sets of bugfixes as they used to. It is then an x.x "major.minor" version instead with new functionality. ... View more

Note that Pro 2.6 will be the last version to support SQL Server 2014 according to the current deprecation plans (although deprecation plans sometimes prove fluid and change with time): FAQ: What are the deprecation plans for ArcGIS products?  Deprecation plans final version year 2019 ... View more

Makes one wonder what use case resulted in only the current version being available..... Honestly, I have no idea... ESRI always made a great effort to keep at least the Help systems of previous versions of their Desktop software available, you can still access the 9.2 Help... , even though ESRI retired 9.x long ago: ArcGIS Desktop Help 9.2 - welcome  ... View more

I second Asrujit SenGupta‌'s reply. Ultimately, if this is a vital system, doing a test run of the upgrade on a secondary instance, is the only really safe way to upgrade. Nonetheless, if none of your customizations has involved the Geodatabase System tables, which I actually also think quite unlikely, as any such modifications would be a pain to maintain for the developers of that customization as well, then you may actually be safe with upgrading. The thing is, in order to support new Geodatabase functionality, ESRI has had the need to modify the table structure of the geodatabase system tables in multiple major releases over the years / decades. These could be minor but also major re-structuring with replacement of entire tables / fields. In order to safely - and automatically - upgrade the geodatabase system tables' schema in such instances, I fully understand it is paramount for ESRI to know the existing table structure and contents. This is why having custom triggers, indexes or other modifications to the geodatabase system tables may become problematic once you attempt to upgrade. ... View more

You do not specify, except a brief mentioning of "user tables, non-sde", what it actually is that constitutes your "highly customized environment"... You could have a "highly customized environment" which still behaves entirely, and acts within, the geodatabase concept, but only a review of the applications / extensions involved and contacting the parties who developed it, should tell you this. I don't think having some "user tables, non-sde" is necessarily a problem if that is the only true "customization" you have done. If I quote your quote of the docs, it says: Have all custom functionality added to the geodatabase system tables outside ArcGIS, such as triggers or additional indexes been removed? which specifically references the actual geodatabase system tables, not user tables or non-sde stuff inside the same database. So, the first question for you to answer to yourself is, do you have custom "triggers or additional indexes" set on the geodatabase "system" tables to implement some of that "highly customized environment"? If not, you are likely safe upgrading the geodatabase. That said, I would certainly take George Thompson‌ 's advice and ensure you have a full - and restore tested(!) - backup of your geodatabase before doing any upgrading of the geodatabase environment. You will be even worse off if anything fails and you don't have a working backup to quickly restore your environment. ... View more

That is actually a slightly different option and new in Pro. It creates separate label classes automatically based on symbol classes. This, however, is not the same option as Jamal NUMAN‌ pointed out. In ArcMap, the  “Define classes of features and label each class differently” is just a generic option to create multiple label classes with e.g. distinct SQL Queries to select certain features to label, it isn't tied to the symbol classes perse (although you could manually set it up to replicate the symbol classes). To access the same functionality in ArcGIS Pro, open the Label Class pane from the ribbon, and access the menu option to create/rename or delete label classes, see screenshot. ... View more