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Thanks for the info Jonathan.  ... View more

10.5.1? ... View more

I'd start here: http://server.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/get-started/windows/what-is-arcgis-enterprise-.htm This will give you an idea of the new "branding" Then on the left hand side, go to the info on the new Enterprise Builder This might help you out a lot. http://server.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/get-started/windows/arcgis-enterprise-builder.htm I have not used this but it looks very promising. Enterprise is a complicated system. Using ArcGIS Online (AGOL) is a much better solution if you don't have the support or experience to build up a network of servers, etc... If you don't have a really good reason for your own Portal, let Esri do the work for you and use AGOL. ArcGIS Enterprise (basically rebranded Portal, AGS, DataStore & Web Adaptor at 10.5) is awesome but you need an IT staff experienced with Esri servers to support it. Or be prepared to start learning a lot. The new name does say it all. This is an Enterprise solution and that's a very different game than even what most people think of as Client/Server. My 2 cents anyways. -Paul Davidson ... View more

Hi Jonathan: Fixed at 10.5.1 for all versions of Chrome?  I had applied that Patch in 10.4.1 which corrected most issues with Chrome but every once in awhile, I'd still have an issue that was similar to the previous ones.  I decided it was not worth having to wonder if an error was Chrome based or something else so I shelved Chrome with Portal. Thanks.  Are you presenting at the UC again? ... View more

What version of Portal?  Do you have a Web Adaptor?  Hard to help without understanding of the environment. And try using IE rather than Chrome.  If you want to use Chrome and you're on <10.5, then you need to find the patch. Even then, I've seen issues with Chrome, especially with HTTPS/SSL If you're using a self-assigned certificate, I suggest you don't.  They're known to create issues. Personally, I'd recommend using the Chef cookbooks for the installation.  It helps get a consistent and known installation and will make future upgrades a lot easier. Good luck. ... View more

Have you rebooted the server? Give us more info please on your setup. Version, OS, hardware, what's installed on the box (portal, AGS, etc...) -Paul Davidson ... View more

I don't know the solution but two things come to mind: Have you cleared the browser cache?  (seems unlikely to solve but caching creates a lot of issues) What browser are you using and have your tried alternate ones? I've gone to using IE exclusively, at least for the moment, because even with Esri's released Patches for Chrome (for Portal 10.4.1) , I still have problems that show up on occasion.  Most of the issues seem to be related to Chrome's security model.   good luck ... View more

Enrico: My two cents.... If your intent is to make a public facing Portal site, then I would highly recommend that you use ArcGIS Online (AGOL). Why reinvent the wheel? Take advantage of letting Esri be your sys admins, keep your system up to date, scale as needed, etc... Portal is a great tool for keeping your data and maps, etc... internal to your organization.  But it is not a trivial system to setup and support. There's a reason why Derek's list is all AGOL sites.  Having been through (& going through) a Portal setup, deployment, support, etc... I would recommend any organization take a good look at what their needs are.  If you don't need to protect your data (we do) then it really makes no sense to waste your resources on setting up a Portal. Even with a Portal, for any public facing data, I'm going to put that out on AGOL and let Esri manage the infrastructure for me.  Best of luck... ... View more

Hi James: We are still having publishing failures when in IWA mode. So far it appears that we are creating the Feature Layer but we're still getting shutdown when the Form tries to upload: code: 400 [    "Folder title 'Survey-Test Upload to Test Portal' not available. ]   Unable to create folder. However, this problem has occurred on our Dev and Test Portal.  And Dev is not using IWA. Yet, when we take Test Portal out of IWA mode, then we can upload ok. Very strange.... This looks to me like a standard folder permissions problem. Do we need to open up permissions on the Portal VMs folders such as: arcgisportal or arcgisserver or arcgisdatastore ? Where are the forms written to on the Portal server?  I'm guessing that they're stored server side? Suggestions? ... View more

Chris: We are seeing the same issue in our Portals here.  We are pretty sure it is related to using AD/IWA (Integrated Windows Authentication.)  In fact, given the work around, I don't see what else it could be. We have a DEV/Test/Prod setup, all three are all in one servers (Portal, Data Store and ArcGIS Server are all running on same server, which are VMware (Vsphere)  virtual servers (Win2K 2012R2.)  All three are using the web adaptor under IIS. Test and Prod both are set to use IWA and both fail when publishing a Survey123 in the same manner you describe. The Feature Service gets published but the Form does not. The work around we have found is to: Turn off IWA, publish your Survey123, Turn IWA back on. 1. Using IIS Manager on your Portal server, Navigate to your Portal website and open Authentication.    a. Disable Windows Authentication    b. Enable Anonymous Authentication 2. Publish your Survey123 using a publisher account on Portal that is not your AD login.  3. Go back to IIS Manager and reverse what you did in #1 to turn IWA back on (Enable Windows Authentication and Disable Anonymous Authentication.) You should end up with your Survey123 published (both Feature Layer and the Form) and IWA working. Obviously, probably need to do this after hours when others are not on your Portal. Not an optimal fix for sure but it does seem to work for us. Hope this works for you. ... View more

Self signed SSLs are problematic in the Portal world.  I've had problems that went away as soon as I installed our enterprise cert. Don't know if that's your issue or not and Esri only talks about security being an issue but if you browse Geonet, you'll see a lot of WA issues where folks mention self-signed and the typical response is: get rid of it. We run our WA under IIS so can't help with the Tomcat version. From: Portal and SSL Certs " HTTPS is always enabled in the portal. It’s strongly recommended that the certificate used be signed by a corporate (internal) or commercial Certificate Authority (CA). The portal itself comes with a self-signed certificate. A self-signed certificate means that a client can’t verify the identity of the server. Replacing the self-signed certificate with a CA-signed certificate greatly improves the security of your deployment." Good luck...  PS - this is where I always point folks towards the Chef cookbooks for installing a system, especially a single box solution.  I can stand up a full all in one box in about an hour or two these days, including publishing 10-20 map services, etc...   Most of that time is non-interactive and just letting things run. It took some effort to get to this stage but know I can update our Dev/Test/Prod portals with little effort as well as stand up new AGS VMs with little effort (e.g GeoProcessor, an Imagery server and now Insight (haven't done Insight yet, on the list.)  Get-Started-With-ArcGIS-Cookbook ... View more

Felix:  to access the web adaptor (WA) configuration software, you have to be logged onto the server on which the WA is actually installed.   If the server is a Windows OS, then can you use Remote Desktop (RD) that is part of Windows to log onto the server or if the server is physical, you can either RD to it or log on directly from an attached keyboard and monitor. To RD to the server (or any PC for that matter)  you either need to know the server's IP or name on the network and of course have access to that network.  If the server is Linux based and a VM, then you'll need a terminal program (I'd assume one that allows a GUI interface but I haven't worked with Esri on Linux so don't know what the remote access requirements would be (X windows compliant or ?) Hope this helps. ... View more

A commercial option for moving content across Portals and AGOL from geo-jobe is their Admin Tools package.  I don't have any experience with this package so can comment on its viability: geo-jobe admin-tools ... View more

Ah, thanks for that clarification. That's a good question.  I believe you are correct and the data is only sorted by Object ID. This would be a nice enhancement to persist a table sort with layer or map. It does seem that a Portal map will persist the table sort across that map's on-screen lifetime.  Not sure if the same behavior translates to a web app You can enter suggestions for improvements at the GeoNet Ideas site:    GeoNet ArcGIS Ideas (I didn't see a similar idea in the ArcGIS-Portal section.) I can think of a work around but it's not very pretty and probably more trouble than just teaching an end user how to sort the table on CODE:  You could take your underlying data source, sort it on CODE and then copy to a new Feature Class so that ObjectID would be assigned according to the CODE sort. But that is then in essence a static table.  New records would not be sorted by CODE so you'd have to be constantly rebuilding the data source.  Like I said, ugly but doable.  If your mxd's data source is a Feature Class in a file geodatabase that you're pulling out of an EGDB, then you could script that transfer to build a new Feature Class sorted appropriately.  That might be a viable solution for that scenario. Good luck! ... View more

Everton, you need to provide more information for anyone to help you. Just saying "Webgisdr is giving problem " doesn't give anyone enough information to provide much help.  Hee are some guidelines to tell the community so they can perhaps help you: What Linux version?   Free disk space, RAM, etc... can be helpful (and you might discover an issue there) What is your configuration?  How many servers are involved? Is the Backup on the same server or on a share? What is happening? Where is the process failing? What are the error messages you are receiving?  If none, make that clear. Any log files? Do you have any screen captures of messages? Etc... The more information you can provide, the better someone can help you. Good luck!  ... View more