Latest Contributions by JonathanQuinn

If the service has an associated feature service, you'd be able to right click on the service and export the data as if it were a regular feature class.  Considering the service is a map service, (and thus only returns images), you'll need to get the data from the REST endpoint, submitting query requests.  If query is disabled on the data and feature access is not enabled, then unfortunately, I don't think there's a way to download the data. ... View more

The data within the feature classes in the status.gdb determine the completion percentage of the cache and that shouldn't be erased by simply moving the status.gdb to a different directory.  It may be a good idea to run the Manage Map Server Cache Status tool regardless if the cache status is 100% or not, as it'll help tell you if the service sees the cache is there.   ... View more

You'll first need to access the geometry and attributes of the service and store it in a feature set, or save it to disk as a feature class.  After a quick search, this can be done using a few tools that are available: http://epro.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=16e5cc64178941839eca62837f168ec9  Download ArcGIS Online Feature Service or ArcGIS Server Feature/Map Service  You don't really need to store the feature class on disk.  Simply make a request to the query endpoint of the service, and store the results in a feature set.  If there are more than 1000 features and the maximum number of records returned by a query is 1000, (which is the default), you'll need to make additional query requests to get all of the data.  Once you have the feature set, you can use that as input with your other feature class to run the intersect. ... View more

No problem.  With the user that was used to install Portal, can you reach that location and create a folder or file in it?  I haven't run into a situation where that error is thrown and it isn't permissions related. ... View more

I believe you'll need to add the images as attachments to the points.  You can also try to add the path to the image to a new field in the attribute table and make sure that the path is accessible to wherever you think the data will be accessed, (internally or externally). ... View more

You can copy the cache to your new cache directory and publish a service with the same exact name.  The data frame name should also be the same.  Set the service to render based on the cache and it should draw from the cache automatically. ... View more

Are you trying this in your own application?  I thought I read in a post somewhere that you can configure the application to render tiles until an LOD, and at that point, render it dynamically.  I can't find it now, though, but if you're using your own custom application, it may be a start. ... View more

Right, exactly.  Permissions only apply to consuming services.  You may be able to control access to folders using an SOI, but I'm not sure. ... View more

You should place the data in one location, share the folder so you can access it via a UNC path, and then publish the data from that location.  The Publisher Connection and the Server Connection will be the same in that case, and you won't have to worry about making sure the data is redundant and synchronized.  The accounts running the ArcGIS Server Windows service on each ArcGIS Server machine should be able to reach the data through the share. ... View more

I've installed it on Windows Server 2016 and haven't seen any problem.  To be honest, I was testing something very specific, unrelated to the OS.  The safe thing to do is to wait until the software is verified on Windows Server 2016, but I don't expect there to be any major issues. ... View more

ConvertWebMapToMapDocument takes a string as the WebMap_As_JSON parameter, which is essentially what you have when you do  WebMap_as_JSON = jsonResponse.read() Note I got rid of the json.loads as that converts the contents to JSON, (which is why you see the u character, indicating it's unicode). What ends up working is something like this: import arcpy, urllib, urllib2, json webmap="http://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/95562b6a24994641bbbaa3d1f2b7cf4f/data?f=pjson" WebMap_as_JSON = urllib.urlopen(webmap).read() result = arcpy.mapping.ConvertWebMapToMapDocument(WebMap_as_JSON) mxd = result.mapDocument mxd.saveACopy(r"C:\Temp\myMap.mxd") print("Map document saved")‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ I'm not sure the resulting MXD is really giving you a backup of the webmap though.  A backup implies that you can restore it in case there was any problems.  In the case of turning a webmap into an MXD, you're simply taking the operational layers within the webmap and creating layers in a map document that point to their original source.  For example, the feature service layer in the webmap is still simply a feature service in the map document.  You can't then publish the map document back to ArcGIS Online.  You can backup your webmaps by creating another folder in your My Content called "Backups" or something and save a copy of the webmap in that folder. ... View more