Latest Contributions by JacobBoyle

No, it works seamlessly for the end user.  There are documented ways to create backups, but we run in our whole GIS in a VMware environment with real-time replication to an offsite location, so we haven't bothered. We still use traditional backups for SDE though.  Some habits are hard to break This page is worth a read What is ArcGIS Data Store?—Portal for ArcGIS (10.3 and 10.3.1) | ArcGIS for Server ... View more

As an early adopter of portal, I can attest to the speed benefit of using the Data Store over an SDE database, The one downside, and it's minor if you pull the data in through portal, is that the Data Store Database is not SDE, and it's not able to be connected to like an SDE-enabled database, at least as I've found. ... View more

It sounds like a folder permissions issue on the host machine, make sure the account that Portal and ArcGIS Server are running on have read/write on the respective directories. ... View more

Ravin, You have to have Web Adapter installed for Portal to work.  About the ArcGIS Web Adaptor—Portal for ArcGIS (10.3 and 10.3.1) | ArcGIS for Server first line specifies: ArcGIS Web Adaptor is a required component of Portal for ArcGIS... It sounds like you skipped the following steps outline here: About the initial administrator account—Portal for ArcGIS (10.3 and 10.3.1) | ArcGIS for Server Portal does not let you go any further until you setup the initial Administrator account. In addition, Portal does not run on IIS, you need a web adapter to run in IIS that serves as a reverse proxy to Portal. I also see you're using IE, i've had mixed results with IE and Portal setup playing well together, I'd consider using Firefox or Chrome. ... View more

That's the easiest way I've found to set ArcGIS Server up, with public shared folders and private shared folders. ... View more

Hey Ismael, thanks for the help thus far. I noticed that it's only supporting the baked in authentication right now.  Any ETA on SAML / ADFS authentication being supported? ... View more

I have professional services coming in at the end of September, I've been running the most current 1.x version for 6 months now.  It'll be of interest to see what the results will be when we migrate to the new architecture. The one thing I would consider is using multiple machines per cluster in the site, this will give you the failover you're looking for. ... View more

As far as federation, unless you're making portal accessible to your employees off-site, you can just share everything to public and only users on your domain will be able to use the Portal site. ... View more

You sure can, just select My Hosted Services when you select which connection to publish to, then you'll get the options you get on ArcGIS Online. ... View more

Thanks for posting, I hadn't caught the change either.  I've been running four 2 core, 16 gb machines for 2 years now without issues, but i'll look at performance since updating to 10.3.1. ... View more

Hi Camilla, As James said, a mosaic would most likely be your best option, but it's not available at the basic level.  You could try some general house keeping like calculating statistics and building pyramids if you haven't already. More than likely, you're going to have to work with less images at a time though, 200+ DEM's would be a challenge for any 32 bit application to render.  Keep in mind that you can run multiple instances of ArcMap on one machine too. ... View more

As Derek said above, Seneca has been using Portal successfully across our entire enterprise for a little over a year now.  We have ours configured for onsite and offsite access for our employees. Portal was fairly straight forward to deploy, and many of the hiccups we had a year ago have been resolved, either through bug fixes or major improvements to documentation.  Portal serves as our spatial backbone, we are running several applications, both esri and 3rd party, that rely on the data provided.  We have about a 75% user rate currently, with the majority of those people using it everyday. ... View more

Yeah, per Esri, it's not designed to work with Portal. ... View more