Latest Contributions by RichardDaniels

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

Hello, this issue is also seen with ArcGIS 10 SP 4. Specifically, REclassify, Reclass by Ascii file, Reclass by Table, and Lookup all fail with some data inputs (e.g., TIFF). If you close ArcGIS and restart 25% of the time one of the above tools will work, however no pattern was seen (e.g., Reclass by Ascii File in the 3D toolbox would work but the one in the Spatial Analysit toolbox would not). Sounds like ESRI is not fully supporting TIFF image, one of the most popular formats for distributing satellite data. I'm looking for a workaround on this. Found that if I created a new file geodatabase and used that as the output location forthe Reclass by Table vs. outputing to a TIF it works. ... View more

To have more control on how the NDVI values are calculated, and to use the equation in modelbuilder you can use the Raster Calculator tool. Equation would be as follows for a simple NDVI.      ((Float("%Near IR Band%") - Float("%Red Band%")) / (Float("%Near IR Band%") + Float("%Red Band%")) This would return a FLOAT data set with values between -1.0 and 1.0 and assumes the input bands are 8 bit unsigned. To covert the values back an 8 bit unsigned raster suitalbe for use with other imagery when doing classification (e.g., maximum likelehood) the above would become:      Int(((Float("%Near IR Band%") - Float("%Red Band%")) / (Float("%Near IR Band%") + (Float("%Red Band%")))  + 1 ) * 127.5 ) This would return a INT data set with values between 0 and 255. Enjoy, ... View more

From ESRI Support Unfortunately, ArcGIS Image Server MicroStation client V8 XM, http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/image-management/details?entryID=5C1D61A4-1422-2418-8827-396FA6AB7F05, is the last one developed. There are no newer clients being developed for MicroStation (or other software). MicroStation v8i does support Web Mapping Services (WMS), so if you publish your imagery via ArcGIS Server as a WMS service you can now add it into v8i. Rich ... View more