Latest Contributions by DEWright_CA

Hi Hilary,  Yes that is the problem; because the service has to be shared to the whole organization; but each group has a restricted web-map that they view. So if the user is able to just go and browse and find the all-encompassing service versus just what they are allowed to see is our concern. We are trying to get away from building 29 different map-services that then need to be shared in 29 groups. ... View more

No you are right about the manual re-index; there were several places they talk about how post 10.7.1 when you are upgrading portal it will automatically re-index in the post-install. This is nice feature improvement... ... View more

No, there was a great session at the Virtual-UC covering upgrades. You don't need to do a interim upgrade before 10.8.x ... View more

The problem with relying on documents with recommended specs is that its very subjective; different use cases mean the specs of a machine can change. ... View more

The problem with relying on documents with recommended specs is that its very subjective; different use cases mean the specs of a machine can change. ... View more

Maybe edit my grammar a bit; replying to threads on a phone isn't always pretty.... 😉 ... View more

I see many people in career that held various certifications (CNA/CNE, MCSE+I etc) but when it came to real practical understanding were dumb as a brick. This is why when in hiring processes I will say a GISP can be recommended but it is never a requirement because practical and demonstrated experience is better in many ways. ... View more

Sadly, being a GISP is a loaded topic; because many organizations do not support them in professional tracts since they are not a license, such as a PE, RA, RLA. I have seen GISP get pushed to the side while PMP (which much of can correlate in GISP work) is not valued in a commensurate way. ... View more

Hi Derek Law‌ , That is the direction I am going to be operating from. Keeping my internal Portal which is federated and controlled by ADFS/IWA; but using a separate Portal instance that we will/can explicitly share/expose the services that are needed in that manner. Since from the public(AGOL) or even secured-customer side (new Portal) side, the use of hosted services and doing Ad-Hoc functions are not needed. My main focus is using services/features such as Geocortex or even Vector-Tiles where I need a Portal or AGOL endpoint to host certain things. ... View more

Hi Shane Miles‌, Yes I was considering at least 2, possibly 3 portal instances (I already have 1 well established) that would support a separate identity methods and group controls. That post you referenced was good; I do like Jonathan Quinn‌ 's suggestion of a collaboration route as a fallback for not being able to cross-federate which I do recall. For my public (non-authenticated) users I was going to do a pass-through from my AGOL which is easy enough; but for my other authenticated route that was not ADFS/IWA I was looking at a totally separate portal instance.where additional sets of controls would isolate things. ... View more

Austin Dotson, the first thing you need to consider is how you plan to really use ArcGIS in your city. If you are planning to integrate into various other city functions and support the public then you really need to look at more than a single machine. ESRI will allow you to deploy a Active/Passive cluster to support redundancy. You really want to think through your scenarios. Will you be running Windows as your OS? If so then you need to plan for some monthly minor downtime for MS-Patching etc, you can handle this with a low-level cluster (patch the passive machine, reboot, swap the active/passive, patch the now passive etc). As George says, look at a min of 4 cores, and RAM is much cheaper; I don't deploy any machines with less than 32GB for the simple fact that ArcSOCs can be a hog. ... View more

Hello jay shukla‌ ; there is not a solid answer for this; but would be very interested in discussing the potential options... ... View more

I would vote this one up if you submit it... ... View more