Latest Contributions by RichardDaniels

Those same patches broke UNC paths. now most areas require complete server names in the path. For example, prior to these KBs \\myserver\myfiles would work but now you need to do \\myserver.mydomain.loc\myfiles to avoid DNS errors. This can impact any area where you may store an UNC path (e.g., in a web.config file). ... View more

You can connect to the ArcGIS Server using https from other machines, so the https support must be setup on the GIS Server. From your description it sounds like a firewall issue, is port 6443 open to send/receive communication from https://<your server>:6443/arcgis/manager/ on the VM?  ... View more

There are several profile tools available, one uses the ESRI provided DEMs and others found inthe GeoSpatial Toolboxes provides option to use your own elevation model. I did note the output was a line with measures (using linear referencing at the sample distance distance). You may need to create a Chart  for the feature class with the profile.  Secondly, have you tried changing to the 3D Map view in ArcGIS Pro before doing the profile? ... View more

I just verified that the 'Cancel License File' only shows files you personally created, not those created by other users. This happens if I provided an ECP number to them and then they use the License Wizard. Canceling a file returns: "If this license file has been provided to a user, please inform the user of the cancellation to insure license availability. Cancelling a license file does not disable authorization numbers the file contains that have already been distributed to users." So (1) the license is potentially still active/in use and (2) the activated count does not decrease. As a side note I discussed this with ESRI Support, and it turns out during the Authorization process they never actually 'grab' a MAC address, IP address, or other unique machine specific signature. This means they don't have a machine <-> license association that one often expects. This is partly a result of supporting VM servers, since at each restart the 'server' is not locked to the same hardware. *This does not mean they don't need a 'return or report a lost license' process; it actually means they need a better one since the 'loss' of a VM is common occurrence.  ... View more

In ArcGIS Server (vs. an Enterprise portal) you can do this directly with the Print Utility.  ... View more

Hopefully the following issue is resolved at ArcGIS Pro 3.6, but we had 100 machines out of 900 that would not install and showed the WebView2 error (as well as the .Net Desktop Runtime 8.0.x error in sequence). I believe the errors being shown are actually in reverse order to what one expect. For example, order of errors shown is WebView2, .Net Desktop Runtime, older version of software installed but cannot be removed. We made several hacks to the ArcGIS Pro.msi to address this, but as a last resort on a known-bad machine we ran the following command to get Verbose logs.   To include additional debugging details and flush every line to the log immediately (useful if the installer crashes), use: msiexec /i "C:\path\to\ArcGIS Pro.msi" /L*vx! "C:\path\to\install.log" In this log we found that  The UI (client) sequence custom action CheckforDotNetWindowsDesktopRuntime does find the Desktop Runtime 8.0.25 and sets DOTNETDESKTOPRUNTIME_FOUND=TRUE: Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 8.0.25 [...] .NET requirement has been met. PROPERTY CHANGE: ... DOTNETDESKTOPRUNTIME_FOUND ... 'TRUE' However, when the install moves to the server (execute) sequence, Windows Installer doesn’t carry over that property. This means the property set in the UI sequence is not secure and therefore not visible to the execute sequence, so the server-side detection decides the prereq is missing even though the runtime exists. This is standard MSI behavior unless the property is listed in SecureCustomProperties or passed via CustomActionData for deferred CAs. (The symptom and cause are consistent with MSI property scoping rules.) Our Solution? Edit the ArcGIS Pro. msi and change the default value of the DOTNETDESKTOPRUNTIME_FOUND property to TRUE (this is found in the properties table in the msi). ... View more

web.config is human readable,  you should open in Notepadd++ and see what it says. ... View more

The cost savings is related to Viewer subscriptions; they are included with Enterprise Portal; while in AGOL Viewer is about $150 per seat.  Just another comment about licensing, remember you can assign extensions to Creator seats. This means instead for purchasing Professional Plus it may be more cost effective to purchase Professional and just the extensions you need. This also applies to Creator seats, where I can assign them 3D Analyst or Spatial Analyst extensions (if I have them in my account).  ... View more

Also recall that ArcGIS Pro can be used with more than one Portal or ArcGIS Online organization. For example, I can startup Pro against AGOL to get my license, then 'sign-out' and sign into an Enterprise Portal or different AGOL organization.   ... View more

Did you install the Json file that contains your licenses onto your Portal to provision user types? I see your Admin user account has no User Type defined, it should show Creator. ... View more

If you think you will be digitizing several maps (e.g., a map series) that have the same symbology you should consider creating an editing template before you start. This will allow you to set default values for point, line, polygon data types which will simplify adding attributes to your digital data down the road. In addition, if you don't have access to a traditional digitizing table (that were ubiquitous in 1990-2010) consider scanning the document then use heads-up digitizing. see: Introduction to editing templates—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation ... View more

One option we are considering is just editing the ArcGIS Pro msi and change the signature that it is looking for from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\Clients\{F3017226-FE2A-4295-8BDF-00C3A9A7E4C5} to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\Clients This would mean the install would still look for and require WebView2 -but it would not be depended on finding a specific GUID. ... View more