Latest Contributions by WilliamCraft

Is there any reason that I should not install ArcGIS server software on a MS Server 2012 R2 machine?  Anything known that will render the install useless in general? To answer this question directly, I think the answer becomes: if you ever require technical support from the Esri support team when you open a ticket for software-related issues, they will not be obligated to provide assistance if you're working in an unsupported configuration.  That, to me, is reason enough not to stray from the Esri-documented list of supported operating systems. So, while ArcGIS may very well work just fine with the R2 release of the 2012 Windows Server OS, just because you can doesn't mean you should.  This concept doesn't just apply to the OS, it applies to other parts of the environment such as databases.  There are probably reasons why it is not on the list of supported operating systems; most likely because they have not yet fully tested everything and can't truly certify the application on that platform.  However, why take the chance... especially if Esri did find an issue during testing?  Give them time to work through any potential issues and add R2 to the list, then migrate. ... View more

Can you restart your SQL Server instance and try the rename and add once more? ... View more

Your tables's ID field is NOT NULL, which means that it must have a value to add when performing an insert.  The body of your REST call for the insert does not pass an ID value so that is the reason for the failure.  OBJECTID is an ArcSDE-maintained field for a unique identifier so it gets a value populated automatically by the system during insert operations.  Deleting the ID field is certainly one way to solve the problem depending on your data model requirements. ... View more

Are you talking about a view or a spatial view?  Does it exist within the database or is it a query layer within the map document?  I'm guessing it's the former based on the error you mentioned.  I've always found that views or spatial views which exist inside of SQL Server or Oracle will always show an error when analyzing the map document in advance of publishing it as a service.  This is "expected" behavior and, even though it appears as though it's not supported by Esri, it works (for view-only purposes) when consuming via a map service. ... View more

Great!  Log shipping is a good option.  Well, we just had a meeting about this very topic this afternoon and decided to go with a load balancer as the point of entry.  In other words, our MXDs and other connection points will use the load balancer name as the host name so that we don't have to re-path or re-point everything in the event of a failover.  All we need to do is switch the load balancer to point to the secondary host rather than the primary.  We'll use a DNS entry for the load balancer so that it has a familiar and easy name to remember.  We use Oracle here and decided to use SAN-based replication as our means to write to the secondary.  I'm looking forward to what others reply with. ... View more

Any member of the Portal can create groups.  Group owners decide who can find their groups, if others can request to join, and who can contribute content.  They also have control over items shared to the group and can invite others to join, even if their group doesn't accept membership requests.  Members with the Administrator role can do any of this as well.  Source: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#/Creating_groups/017s00000076000000/ To answer your Group-related question directly, there is not a way to restrict who can create groups.  Once you're in, you're in.  As far as restricting access to Portal, there is an option to allow anonymous access versus not, but that only gets you so far.  As you mentioned, once a person hits the Portal URL then their domain account automatically generates a new account.  I was not able to restrict the pool of users in my domain to a specific set of AD groups; I tried doing this by using the LDAP configuration and specifying a container name (CN) in the LDAP string but I was not successful.  Portal wouldn't respect the filter I tried to add; though this type of configuration works in other non-Esri software such as GeoPortal.  Anyways, another option for you might be to modify the web.config file of the Portal web adaptor to restrict access to a specific set of AD groups.  So, if a domain user who isn't in one of those groups tries to request the Portal URL then they would get a 401 or 403 error.  This is not something that Esri supports most likely, but it's technically possible.  It's not elegant either, but if you wanted to get really clever then you could re-direct those failed requests to another page of your choice.  As a reference, I'm talking about something like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3195608/net-set-active-directory-security-via-web-config-only.  The redirect capability might also be feasible with the IIS Redirect Module. ... View more

Please mark the correct answer and vote up helpful replies. ... View more

What is the underlying source data storage type for the services?  RDBMS, FGDB, or something else?  If RDBMS, is it Oracle or SQL Server?  Are your data sources or enterprise geodatabase on the same machine as ArcGIS for Server?  When the services appear to not be started, is it always ALL of them or only a specific set of them?  When the services appear to not be started, what happens when you manually try to start them?  What OS are you using? ... View more

A couple of questions for you... When you say that you can connect slowly from the server (as opposed to quickly from your PC), are you saying that ArcCatalog is installed on the database server?  In other words, the connection is very slow when using ArcCatalog on the same server as the database to which you are trying to connect?  From your PC, connecting in the same fashion to the same database is fast?  Just confirming what I think you're saying.  Also, I noticed that you didn't mention any errors... so you are not receiving any, correct?  Once the connection is finally made in ArcCatalog from both your PC and from the server, no tables ever appear in the table of contents?  Are you certain that the user account contained within the OLEDB connection file has SELECT permissions to view the data or is assigned to a role that has those permissions?  It sounds like the account does have CONNECT and/or RESOURCE, but verify this too please.  One last item to check... are any of the roles that are assigned to the user account set to be Default roles or are all of them set to not be Default? ... View more

You could do this in Python, but you really don't have to.  Another route to go would be to set up a Windows batch file with SDE command line and run it as a scheduled task; then have it email you the results.  For example, try something like this (assumes Oracle but you could modify for SQL Server): sqlplus sde/sde@database @c:\scripts\lineages_report.sql sdeversion -o compress -i esri_production -u sde -p sde -N sqlplus sde/sde@database @c:\scripts\lineages_report.sql c:\scripts\rnetmail -t [email protected] -f SDE@servername -s Nightly Compress Report -m c:\scripts\lineages_report.txt -x smtp.domain.int Lines 1 and 3 run a separate SQL script against the database to grab the current state ID for BEFORE and AFTER the compress and then spit those numbers out to a text file.  Line 2 performs the compress.  Line 4 would be where you'd send the email containing the info from the text file; in this example I'm showing the use of a utility called RNETMAIL but there are plenty of options for this.  We follow a procedure like this and, each night after the compress finishes, we get an email showing us how much the lineage got crunched.  One thing to remember, however, is that the SDE command line tools will eventually be deprecated after the next release of ArcGIS. ... View more

Depending on the number of users and the amount of traffic you would expect for Portal itself, it may not be advisable to put Portal on any of the machine(s) within your ArcGIS for Server site.  Your AGS services are going to be responding to REST requests, thus consuming system resources alone.  Adding additional load (i.e., essentially ArcSOC processes) to the same machine as Portal to process service requests could be crippling to your server.  Evaluate the number/type/complexity of the GIS services you publish in conjunction with the expected load that will hit AGS and Portal; then make a decision with the available system resources in mind (i.e., CPU, RAM... and also disk space).  You may find that Portal should go on its own machine based on your findings.  What you need to avoid is pushing your server to capacity if both applications are fighting for resources.  On another note, I cannot remember how Portal is licensed by Esri.  ArcGIS for Server is licensed per CPU core, but Portal may have a different licensing model.  You should verify this with Esri before deciding to involve a second server in case you double your licensing costs (unless you have an ELA). ... View more

The 10.1 (non-SP1) web adaptor application is not supported on the Windows Server 2012 platform.  The system requirements are clear that support for 2012 and IIS 8 begins at 10.1 SP1.  Here is the source: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/system-requirements/10.1../index.html#//01510000007s000000 That being said, to verify that the web adaptor is installed properly and responding to requests you should make the following request via your web browser after installation completes: http://servername.domain.int/arcgis/webadaptor (assumes 'arcgis' is the name of your web adaptor) ... View more

No problem.  If possible, perhaps you could reply to this thread once more to indicate what configuration differences exist on the newly-built server when you're finished.  In other words, tell us what you did differently to get it to work (assuming the change from #2 above is the fix).  That would be helpful for others who read the post with similar challenges.  As always, please also remember to mark the correct answer and/or vote up helpful responses when using the Esri forums.  Good luck! ... View more

By "raster layers" are you referring to raster datasets, raster catalogs, mosaic datasets, or individual images in TIFF, IMG, JPG, or some other format?  What type of storage location is being used for the raster layer sources (RDBMS vs. file system)?  Do the layers take the same amount of time to draw in the map document as they do when rendering the service?  For your map service, is it being served dynamically or is it cached? ... View more