Latest Contributions by Joshua-Young

I am also a one man GIS department and we started using ArcGIS Enterprise in 2016. I would also recommend running the three main ArcGIS Enterprise components on different servers (physical or virtual) for the same reasons stated above. I would recommend virtual servers to have the snapshot availability. I guess I do not fully trust Esri's backup and restore tools. I still use the backup tools, but I think using both is safer. Start with a fresh ArcGIS Server instance for the hosting server. I would not recommend trying to federate an existing ArcGIS Server instance. I did that back in 2016 and had all kinds of odd issues over the years that went away we I migrated to new servers and started with a fresh install of everything. Be patient, some of the installers can take a long time to complete and look like that are not doing anything. Depending on the servers it can take awhile. But... sometimes the installers will hang for some reason. I do not think that happened during my last fresh install but it has happened often with upgrades. Contact Esri Support before trying to cancel or close anything. Read and re-read the ArcGIS Enterprise help documentation about installing and configuring. It is really helpful to know what to expect and make sure you are not skipping any steps. Create an admin account to manage the deployment and a separate account to publish/create content. Come up with some standards for naming conventions (for services, items, folders, tags, etc.) and content organization before you start loading content. Make sure your storage for ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Portal config directories have good performance with small, random input/output. Otherwise ArcGIS Enterprise will be slow for many operations (https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/install/windows/choosing-a-nas-device.htm). I hope that helps. ... View more

The print templates are being stored locally on the ArcGIS Server server. They were being referenced using a UNC path but I have changed that to a direct path. I added antivirus exceptions to the print templates folder and the custom print service folder. Those changes had no affect on the duration. The default printing tools service only takes a 2 seconds to get a response from the Get Layout Templates Info task and it is stored on the same local drive on the server with no antivirus exemptions. My custom print service has fewer layout templates than the default print service so it seems reasonable that the Get Layout Templates Info task would execute faster. ... View more

I would go with the least privilages mindset. Creating a new member role for the consultant and give the role only the permissions that they absolutely need to have to do their work would be my recommendation. Then assign that role to a new account for the consultant. This gives you complete control over what they can do. This requires more thought and coordination up front but is the most secure way to go about it. If they absolutetly have to have administrative access, I would still create their own admin account. Sharing admin credentials is usually not recommended. ... View more

Have you tried running Firefox's developer tools while loading the page to see what is happening when the page loads? In my version of Firefox pressing F12 opens the developer tools and the Network tab should show any errors that may be occuring. I upgraded from 11.0 to 11.1 last week and have been using the method above to try to figure out some issues that started up after our upgrade. ... View more

I tried clearing the broswer cache again this morning and the custom print service started working for a little while and then it went back to throwing an error about being unable to access the secure services. I cleared the cache again, it started working again for a little while, and then it throws access errors again. I have not restarted the print service today. I am only clearing the browser cache. ... View more

I have reached out to Esri Support. I used the wrong term in my initial post. The print services are not crashing where the service has to be restarted. The print services are throwing an error message when trying to print a map with secure services in it. ... View more

The Park Infrastructure Management or Recreation Outreach come to mind, but really any solution that has hosted feature services as part of the solution. We prefer to use a State Plane coordinate system versus Web Mercator Auxillary Sphere. ... View more

Is content still being transferred from the old site to the new one? I went to look for patches for ArcGIS Enterprise and I was presented with only Issues Addressed Lists, an ArcGIS Online June 2019 Update, and a ArcGIS 10.9 Announcement. Where would I find the actual patches? I used the link on the ArcGIS Enterprise page to get to the results above.   ... View more

I just wanted to let you know that Esri did fix the append issue in ArcGIS API for Python 2.1.0. Unfortunately, ArcGIS API for Python would not update for me in my ArcGIS 3.0.3 conda environment. To get around that I downloaded the code from Esri's conda repository. The append function is in .\Lib\site-packages\arcgis\features\layer.py and I copied it from the 2.1.0 version. Then in the layer.py file in my 2.0.1 version conda environment I deleted the append function and pasted in the newer version. Finally I saved the layer.py file. Now my appends are working again in my scripts. It would be nice if Esri would add fixes like this to version of the ArcGIS API for Python that are used by their current products instead of making us wait for the next product release. ... View more