Latest Contributions by JonSwoveland

Hello all,  This is something that has been a mystery to me for a while and has led to complications with several ArcGIS Enterprise deployments I have led.  There are two parts to my question: How does ArcGIS Web Adapter "know" what it's own URL is? Is there a way to reconfigure this URL? I should clarify, the above questions are specific to a Web Adapter (WA from here on) registered with a Federated ArcGIS Server. Re the first question, when installing and registering WA, there's no way to specify the hostname/FQHN to the WA.  I assume the registration routine looks at the IIS settings and decides for itself what to use, but  I've run into the situation where, after federating an ArcGIS Server, the WA's URL (as registered in Portal) is not as desired. Most commonly, this is a case of the URL using only the machine hostname instead of the FQHN.   Re the second question, there does not seem to be any way, short of unfederating and refederating, to reconfigure a federated ArcGIS Server WA's URL in Portal.  I need to move an internal ArcGIS Server's WA to a public-facing DMZ and reconfigure it to use a publically available FQHN.  Seems crazy that I would have to unfederate / refederate the ArcGIS Server to simply reconfigure a setting in Portal.  If this server had many hosted feature services, those all become orphaned when unfederating the server.  Thanks for any insight! ... View more

So upgrading Portal in customer's staging environment took almost 3 hours to complete.  To minimize the maintenance window required for the production upgrade, I'm curious if we can go ahead and complete the upgrade of the hosting ArcGIS Server and additional federated ArcGIS Servers and their respective web adapters while Portal is upgrading.  Esri's docs "recommend" doing the upgrades in a specific order, but don't explicitly say you can't do them in parallel.  Thanks! ... View more

Hi All, I'm curious if deploying a standalone instance of Portal for ArcGIS (no DataStore or ArcGIS Hosting Server) is supported by Esri.  The scenario in which this would be useful is an organization that wants to configure Web Maps / Scene / Apps based on publicly available map services (or an existing in-house ArcGIS Server).  I can't see any reason why this would not work.  I know much of Portal's capabilities will not be available in this scenario, but it could be useful. Thanks! ... View more

Hey all, so I seem to have got myself into a wee bit of a pickle.   First off, this is not a case of forgetting the built-in admin username or password.  I'm (all too) familiar with the cmd line tool to reset that.  I setup an instance of Portal 10.8.1 to test configuration of a SAML 2.0 Federation with OKTA. This all worked fine until I disabled the option for users to login using built-in Portal accounts.  The only administrative user is the built-in portal admin user, and there appears to be no way for me to log in with built-in users anymore. This means I have not way to re-enable built-in user logins via the Portal UI. I'm so used to using IWA authentication through the web adapter, I figured I'd be able to login with the built-in account by access Portal directly via :7443 but of course that still redirects authentication to OKTA.   I can login to the portaladmin directory using the built-in admin account, but cannot find any way to enable built-in user logins from there.    Looking at the response from the <portal-url>/sharing/rest/portals/self endpoint, I see there is a property named "samlEnabled", with a value of true.  However, I have  scoured all the configuration files I can find, but am unable to find a setting to control this. This is just a test setup, so in my case it's not a big deal to reinstall, but there really should be a way to fix this via configuration.   If reinstall is the only answer, I will be submitting a suggestion to Esri that disabling built-in user logins is not allowed unless at least one administrative user from an alternate IdP exists, and IdP settings should be configurable via portaladmin. Thanks all!   ... View more

Hi all, I just deployed ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7.1, federated with three instances of ArcGIS Server: GIS Server, assigned as the Hosting Server Image Server, assigned as the Raster Analytics Server GeoEvent Server I'm attempting to assign the Image Server as the Image Hosting Server, however every time I select it and hit save, the drop down menu reverts to "No Image Hosting Server".  The message "Settings Saved Successfully" then appears.  I have Portal's logging set to DEBUG, and there are zero log messages.  Nothing in the browser console either. Could there be some prerequisite for the Image Server that is missing? ... View more