Latest Contributions by StephanieSnider

chiliblast, Are you working with secure map services?  If so, are you using a trusted certificate or a self-signed certificate?  I had errors working with the Flex Viewer using a connection to ArcGIS Server with just a self-signed certificate.  We had to switch to using a "trusted certificate" on the ArcGIS Server (server hosting the map services) in order for the Flex Viewer (on another server) to accept the secure map service without errors. ... View more

Your plan is to secure services outside your organization and unsecure services inside your org.  But what if you did it the opposite way.  Securing services internally so that the public could not access them and unsecuring services externally. I have a similar situation.  As directly by our IT dept, we went the route of purchasing two ArcGIS Server licenses - one for internal services (unsecure) and one for external services (secure).  However, if I was restricted to only one license of ArcGIS  Server, this is how I would set it up: You could setup ArcGIS Server to use secure services (https) with SSL encryption (trusted certificate).  Use the GIS Tier authentication on the GIS Server and set the Web Adaptor to use anonymous authentication in IIS.  Then put all your unsecure services (the ones you want the public to see without logging in) in the root directory and set permissions to Public.  Then create a folder for your secure services (the ones you want only your internal users to see) and set permissions on that folder to a role which contains the users who should be able to access those services.  If you have web maps that need to use secure map services, you can put those in a folder that also has the permissions set to a role, then create tokens for the web maps to use those secure services. The public would not be able to see the folders that have permissions set but would be able to see all map services in the root directory.  The internal users could see all the public services (in the root directory) plus whatever folders they have been given access to use. ... View more

I wanted to chime in incase this point had not been made clear.  There's a difference between an enterprise geodatabase and ArcSDE application service.  You can have an enterprise geodatabase (Example: SQL Server or Oracle) and also have ArcSDE installed for an application service.  Or you can have an enterprise geodatabase and not have ArcSDE installed.  Both options require an ArcGIS Server Basic license.  At ArcGIS Desktop 10.0, the default connection type to an enterprise geodatabase assumed the application service was installed - although ESRI recommended using a direct connect at "best practices".  At 10.1 and above, ArcGIS Desktop uses the direct connection by default.  You still have the option of connecting using an application service, but the setup is hidden in the ArcToolbox.  After 10.2, ArcSDE will no longer be available...so you will have to use a direct connect to get to your enterprise geodatabase.  Hope this helps. ... View more

I discovered my problem.  When Web Tier authentication is used, you must publish map services using the Web Adaptor URL.  I had ArcGIS Server setup to use the Web Tier (for Windows single sign-on), but was using an ArcGIS Server connection in ArcMap with the GIS Server URL (http://gisserver:6080/arcgis). Since the authentication happens at the Web Tier....you need to use the Web Adaptor URL to publish (http://webadaptor/arcgis).  Now....no more errors. ... View more

I tried restarting the server and creating a new ArcGIS Server connection in ArcMap, but neither worked.  Still same error.  I added a new user with Admin rights to publish and created a new ArcGIS Server connection in ArcMap, but still the same error.  There are no error reports at all on the server under .../arcgisserver/machinename/errorreports.  There are no logs under the .../arcgisserver/machinename/server directory mentioning this error message or anything with a time stamp that would relate back to the time I'm trying to publish the service and seeing the error in ArcMap.  The publishing tools GP service says "Geoprocessing service instance is successfully contructed." from two weeks ago. ... View more

Thank you!  I'll give it a try. ... View more

My main goal is to disable or deauthorize the geodatabase so that we will not be responsible for licencing the enterprise database (ArcGIS Server Basic).  I'm ok with the wayward tables and geometry that come with enabling the geodatabase.  We can remove the SDE user and schema.  So do you know how I would go about manually removing the authorization key?  I just want to be legal with ESRI and don't need a perfectlly reverted database. ... View more

So if you didn't create a database snapshot before you enabled it as a geodatabase, what then?  Can you deauthorize the enterprise geodatabase? ... View more

I contacted ESRI tech support on this issue.  They said the problem may be because I did not build footprints after I loaded rasters to the mosaic dataset.  I thought you didn't need to build footprints if your data did not have No Data areas, but according to ESRI, you ALWAYS need to build footprints after loading rasters no matter what your data looks like.  So their solution was to redo the mosaic dataset.  My mosaic dataset was 1.15TB, not a small redo.  I did redo it and the analyze mosaic dataset worked....but the overviews failed and we couldn't get them to work.  So now I'm back at using the original mosaic dataset where the analyze dataset function does not work.  I decided I can live without the analyze function becuase the mosaic dataset works perfectly....other than that. ... View more

We are planning to move up to 10.2 by the end of the year...although we may still use application services since we do versioned editing and replication.  This is just something that has annoyed us for quite some time, so I wanted to see if there was a work-around.  If we can avoid having to ask our IT dept to do administrative tasks for us, all the better. ... View more