Latest Contributions by RichardDaniels

danielri;343086 wrote: If you will be 'deploying' the Maps for Office package to your users and they DON'T have admin on their computers then you should tweak the msi so that the 'check for updates' option is turned off after installation (i.e., in Excel you will find this setting in File | Esri Maps). If you have access to an MSI editing tool like Orca, just go to the Property Table and change the "CheckboxForUpgrade" properties valu to 0, ensure ALLUSERS is set to 1. Other option would be to just go to the Upgrade Table and change the versionmin number to a large value like 3.0 so an upgrade never can occur. QUOTE] Note at 2.1.3 and 2.1.4 you can still set the values shown here but the MSI does not appear to actually use them, thus setting the version min to a large number may be your best bet. CheckboxForUpgrade value to 0 in the Checkbox table AND CheckboxForUpgrade value to 0 in the Property table SoftwareUpgradeCheckBox condition to SOFTWAREUPGRADE="false" in ControlCondition table SetCheckForSoftwareUpgrade condition to CheckboxForUpgrade="0" inControlEvent  table ... View more

I don't know how to fix it, but before Python 2.6.x there was no explicit way to declare an abstract class. It changed with the abc (Abstract Base Class) module now available from the standard library in Python 2.7. I'm getting the same error with this line of code. partGeom = arcpy.Geometry("polygon", arcpy.Array(trPoints)) The variable partGeom probably needs to be declared now... Rich ... View more

This is the key, you need to open an inbound port on the ArcGIS Server for port 6080. How to do this is described at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc947814(v=ws.10).aspx. Rich ... View more

If you will be 'deploying' the Maps for Office package to your users and they DON'T have admin on their computers then you should tweak the msi so that the 'check for updates' option is turned off after installation (i.e., in Excel you will find this setting in File | Esri Maps). If you have access to an MSI editing tool like Orca, just go to the Property Table and change the "CheckboxForUpgrade" properties valu to 0, ensure ALLUSERS is set to 1. Other option would be to just go to the Upgrade Table and change the versionmin number to a large value like 3.0 so an upgrade never can occour. just saying... ... View more

This still applies, substitute the new 10.2 FlexLM lmutil.exe to the one provided by the download and you are in business. ... View more

Current ArcGIS Server Enterprise licenses (basic, standard, and advanced) are for 4-cores. There are "additional cores" licenses availalbe that give you "blocks" of 4 more cores. However, in most cases a 8-core machine would be virtualized and you would actually run 2 to 4 VM's on the same hardware. In that case you would just assign the license to one of these VM's. Enjoy, Rich ... View more

Looks like problem is the "ARCGIS using TCP-port 0" issue.  In your service.txt file located at C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\License10.1\bin make sure you have a port specified. The top two lines of the file should look something link the following: SERVER MYSERVERNAME ANY 27000 VENDOR ARCGIS PORT=1234 Most likely you need to lock your vendor daemon to a static port. There is a ESRI troubleshooting document for this that was first written for ArcGIS 9.x which still applies. ... View more

You want Microsoft SQL Native Client 2008 R2, version 10.5x or greater. If you have an older client installed you may be able to connect to SQL 2008 but not 2008 R2. There is a version that works included on the ArcGIS DVD in the support folder. ... View more

You can manage your map documents (.mxd) in ArcCatalog. Navigate to the MXD in ArcCatalog then right click on it and you will be given a "Set Data Sources" option where you can update multiple connections at once. 🙂 ... View more

As a side note, the 'no cost' Geocoder option will return a graphic representing the geocoded location. If you select these graphics and use the Graphic to Feature command you should be able to get a feature class or shapefile with the locations. This is described at http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Converting_between_graphics_and_features and still applies to v10. ... View more

The services reference in the announcement are also included with ArcGIS Desktop[ATTACH=CONFIG]23840[/ATTACH], how will there retirement impact Esri's desktop applications which were sold based on the availability of these, or similar, services? Geocoding �?� European Address Locator �?� North American Address Locator �?� North American Address Locator (ArcGIS 10 style) �?� United States Street Locator �?� United States Street Locator (ArcGIS 10 style) �?� World Places Locator ... View more

the pitfalls of reusing .css styles 😉 to keep a one-DOT look. ... View more

Esri is phasing out the complimentary use of Bing Maps in its ArcGIS products.  The final version of ArcGIS Explorer 2012 as well as other Esri products will be "Bing Ready", which will allow you to input a Bing Maps key that you obtain directly from Microsoft.  After you input the key you will be able to use Bing maps as you did previously. Mark No Bing Maps in its ArcGIS? Sounds like a bad mistake, unless then plan to replace it with Google Maps. rich ... View more

The import utility for ArcGIS coverage .E00 files can be found at C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.0\Bin or C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.0\Bin. Your looking for Import71.exe. This can be directly. In ArcCatalog, you can find this command in the 'ArcView 8x Tools' toolbar, where it is called Import From Interchange File. This should work for v6 to v7.1 E00 files. If you have a ArcInfo coverages (to include the .\info folder and the .\youcoverage folder), add the coverage into ArcMap and copy the data to a feature class or shapefile using Data | Export. Note you do not need an ArcInfo license to do this. Hope this helps. ... View more