Latest Contributions by MichaelRobb

Yes, there are other avenues of doing this as you mention. Leveraging the Server Admin toolkit for example: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=12dde73e0e784e47818162b4d41ee340  Renaming works. or write your own py to rename. This though requires stop/starting services, other methods may not require. Cache is cache. (as long as the content in the conf.xml / conf.cdi files match...aka scales) ... View more

if arcgis server services are not secure, one can simply hit up the Specific Port - side stepping the web adaptor and still get access to services. Once you web tier auth, other than admin / manager, you must go through the web adaptor. or you will get a 403  also handy through the web adaptor is the manager / publisher accounts are auto logged in... no need for Digging up KeePass credentials.  ... View more

that is normal.  The time stamped service is due to checking overwrite a service with an Existing Cache, and cahcing automatically after publishing is enabled. It is to avoid disrupting the existing cache. You would have to copy the cache from the timestamp service to the root service once complete. I find it is much easier to make another service (call it acceptance) run with keep existing cache and manual, then use Catalog Cache Manager and initiate. create the cache...  then go into the production world , copy the original cache (if you need to archive it) Blow away in the main service and copy over your new cache. I write .net to run this process in another separate service, then simply copy over the cache to the production service in one shot.  ... View more

Hi Eric, You also may be interested in what I can offer. I provide GIS Server Services for a post secondary institution in Western Canada along the same lines what you are describing here, not AGOL tied.  The machines are dedicated servers on 1Gb/s connections. You RDP in, you control, publish, do what you want, your ArcGIS Server / Portal sit there.  I can probably do it all, including the machine for less than your 50up/down Telus connection costs alone.   What Paul is missing is that Imagery from AGOL for Canada is atrocious. some areas being 7+ years old and/or awful resolution.  ... View more

Are you SURE you want to IWA Portal?   You know that each user that logs in is auto assigned a Named User account, right?  Meaning.. if you have 100 staff type in the portal url... you better have 100 named users handy. This can be quite costly with large enterprise organizations.   Restricting editing and viewing could just as easily be done using web tier authentication on arcgis server / web adaptor, rather than portals. (and save you the licensing nightmare). Collector can also be one named user group, if I understand you correctly, for internal (corporate) use.   I am not quite following your lesson here. Why would you use local GIS Server URL at all?  Were you not using the web adapters at least? Are you not using a DEV/ Acceptance/ Production silo approach? (it does not sound like it)  or at bare minimum, EDN (DEV and Prod)  From a web end, id also be using a Load balancer... that points to whatever machine you want it to, you can change FQDNs all day long, wont impact having to go back and change stuff...  Portal for example, would be adding a REST service from your ArcGIS Server THROUGH the NLB which points to whatever web adaptor you want..   e.g. gis.company.com/arcgis/rest/services/   regardless where that GIS server(s) sit or the web adaptors for them are...  ... View more

Do you mean this? Disabling users' ability to create built-in portal accounts—Portal for ArcGIS (10.3 and 10.3.1) | ArcGIS for Server  I find that this JSON does not always work, and I simply navigate to the file and rename it to _OFF.html [INSTALLDIRECTORY]\Portal\webapps\arcgis#home\signup_OFF.html" ... View more

how can you calculate cut/fill with imagery?  I would think you would need Lidar or some sort of B.E., not imagery ? (and also need a Before and after).  ... View more

Drone2map it is not tied to any one platform. ... View more

Makes sense.  Thanks for clarifying.  ... View more

Hmm. I am a bit confused with the link.  You mention 'based on user login', but I don't see where this happens anywhere.  I am faced with having to somehow show specific widgets based on the Windows Authentication that is done through IIS and Active Directory.  Do you perhaps know a direction to look? Thanks ... View more

Hi Everyone, The workaround is... Run the GP tool:     Data Management Tools >> Package >> Create Runtime Content. This will create a compressed version of tile cache. (exactly how ArcGIS Server would) Look like so:   Once you have this... spin up a new instance of ArcMap and add this Raster Tile Compressed layer to an mxd.   It will look like this in Catalog / ArcMap Save the mxd.  (dont forget to add your mapdoc descriptions -  File >> Map Document Properties...) Then go ahead and Run the Create Map Tile Package.   Done. Maybe one day, ESRI will remove that TPK GP block...  Cheers ... View more

The workaround is... Run the GP tool:     Data Management Tools >> Package >> Create Runtime Content. This will create a compressed version of tile cache. (exactly how ArcGIS Server would) Look like so:   Once you have this... spin up a new instance of ArcMap and add this Raster Tile Compressed layer to an mxd.   It will look like this in Catalog / ArcMap Save the mxd.  (dont forget to add your mapdoc descriptions -  File >> Map Document Properties...) Then go ahead and Run the Create Map Tile Package.   Done. ... View more

For WABde 2.0 you would go to the widget of interest. For example, for the About Widget... [app#]\widgets\About\css\style.css ... View more

For anyone reading this... This bug is FIXED in Web Application Builder 2.1 ... View more