Latest Contributions by BillFox

‎02-17-2017

As an enterprise system, please allow all ArcGIS Data Stores to use UNC paths for Relational/ Tile Cache/Spatiotemporal Big data stores and allow duplicate item names. Reading about ArcGIS Data Store it appears to be a different options depending on the type of data store. Also, I'm thinking maybe the 10.5 release of ArcGIS Server was mistakenly coded to act like an ArcGIS Online subscription where I noticed in a recent ESRI MOOC two users are not allowed to name something the same (Organization-Wide). Reading more about ArcGIS Data Store 10.5, it seems like everything will get tossed into a single schema in the back-end. Reading about Pro 1.4, it is currently not able to publish directly to an ArcGIS Server into its separate ArcGIS Server folders - It publishes directly to Portal for ArcGIS which then creates all map services in the root folder of ArcGIS Server. (Federated that is) That would match the behavior of not allowing duplicate feature class names. If this is correct and intended, it is a huge restriction to put on enterprise GIS/geodatabases. A show stopper of sorts for ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5 at this time until workarounds and/or new supported ways of doing things are figured out. For example: Production & Test schemas: Production schema with feature class name ALPHA.CITY_LIMITS and one field name AGENCY_CODE Test schema with feature class name BETA.CITY_LIMITS and two filed names AGENCY_CODE AGENCY_NAME Please make adjustments as needed to not force customers to completely change proven production workflows with ArcGIS Enterprise.

‎02-17-2017

Here's a couple references to BUGs similar to what I'm seeing with ArcGIS Server 10.5 (without replication) BUG-0000093897 --> Replicated data store displays incorrect data if the connection user has view access to multiple feature classes with the same name. Logged with Oracle; but other cases documented for SQL Server. BUG-000099007 (duplicate of 93897)--> When packaging a service definition, ArcGIS 10.4.1 Desktop mixes up feature classes with the same name from two different schema. Documented for SQL 2012/2014 Both are marked as fixed in 10.5.1, which will be released in the next quarter. It isn't a patch, but another install, like 10.3 and 10.3.1 I'm trying to get the fix released as a 10.5 patch to save time. 10.5.1tcraig-esristaff10.5.1‌

‎02-16-2017

I'm thinking maybe the 10.5 release of ArcGIS Server was mistakenly coded to act like an ArcGIS Online subscription where I noticed in a recent ESRI MOOC two users are not allowed to name something the same (Organization-Wide). Reading about ArcGIS Data Store 10.5, it seems like everything will get tossed into a single schema in the back-end. Reading about Pro 1.4, it is currently not able to publish directly to an ArcGIS Server into its separate ArcGIS Server folders - It publishes directly to Portal for ArcGIS which then creates all map services in the root folder of ArcGIS Server. (Federated that is) That would match the behavior of not allowing duplicate feature class names. If this is correct and intended, it is a huge restriction to put on enterprise GIS/geodatabases. A show stopper of sorts for ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5 at this time until workarounds and/or new supported ways of doing things are figured out. If this is not a BUG with an immediate fix, it will force customers like us to completely change proven production workflows with ArcGIS Enterprise. Hoping it is just a mistake somewhere on my part. I'm working a case with ESRI support now.

‎02-13-2017

ArcGIS Online and Portal: Display full date/time for "Modified" column in My Contents Examples: GeoNet Latest activity February 13, 2017 11:42 AM ArcGIS for Server Manager View Log Messages Feb 13, 2017, 1:17:44 PM Portal for ArcGIS and ArcGIS Online Modified May 2, 2016 Please display the full date/time like we already see in AGS and GeoNet Thank you, -Bill

‎02-13-2017

ArcGIS Online and Portal: Display full date/time for "Modified" column in My Contents Examples: GeoNet Latest activity February 13, 2017 11:42 AM ArcGIS for Server Manager View Log Messages Feb 13, 2017, 1:17:44 PM Portal for ArcGIS and ArcGIS Online Modified May 2, 2016 Please display the full date/time like we already see in AGS and GeoNet Thank you, -Bill

‎02-13-2017

ArcGIS Server/Portal 10.5 (Including the ArcGIS Server 10.5 Service Publishing Patch) has drawing errors with the same feature class name in multiple schemas. For example: Production & Test schemas: Production schema with feature class name ALPHA.CITY_LIMITS and one field name AGENCY_CODE Test schema with feature class name BETA.CITY_LIMITS and two filed names AGENCY_CODE AGENCY_NAME The mxd with BETA draws fine, attribute table contents look fine, symbol category draws fine and publishes without errors. But, the published map service REST end point of the BETA schema feature class does not show the correct attributes. Instead it shows the attributes of the ALPHA schema feature class including its geometry column name of LAYER. The BETA feature class uses the newer geometry filed name of SHAPE The ArcGIS Server logs have errors about: Cannot find a field named AGENCY_NAME and references the ALPHA.CITY_LIMITS feature class The map service added to a new empty webmap will not draw Simply renaming the BETA schema feature class from CITY_LIMITS to CITY_LIMITSCOPY and publishing works great, shows the correct fields names in the REST endpoint and draws fine in the webmap. This acts like a BUG where ArcGIS Server scans the geodatabase alphabetically by schema name to find the correct feature class instead of scanning for the fully qualified feature class name. It finds ALPHA.CITY_LIMITS before BETA.CITY_LIMITS -Bill

‎01-31-2017

Please provide ArcGIS Enterprise configurations to automatically e-mail logs to system administrators? Example: 1) Portal for ArcGIS / GIS Server / Web Adaptor service stopped/started or not responding 2) ArcGIS Server site lost communication to ArcGIS Data Store xyz and these registered data locations 3) ArcGIS Data Store xyz is now in read-only mode due to full-disk drive Having this information included in the My Organization > View Status dashboard would be very useful too. Jonathan Quinn‌

‎01-31-2017

Where is the ArcGIS Enterprise configuration to automatically e-mail such logs to system administrators? Example: 1) Portal for ArcGIS / GIS Server / Web Adaptor service stopped/started or not responding 2) ArcGIS Server site lost communication to ArcGIS Data Store xyz and these registered data locations 3) ArcGIS Data Store xyz is now in read-only mode due to full-disk drive

‎01-28-2017

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‎01-27-2017

Today we noticed "missing layers" in some ArcGIS Server 10.4.1 map services and found that the SQL Server windows services for our enterprise geodatabase that are set to start automatically did not start after a maintenance reboot last night. Starting the windows services manually works fine but some of the GIS map services were still only showing partial list of layers. Those SQL services are now changed from Automatic to Automatic (Delayed Start) I think they used to be set to Automatic (Delayed Start) but a recent SQL Server back in November to update from SQL 2008 R2 to SQL 2014 to get compliant with ArcGIS 10.4.1 probably set them back to default of just Automatic. We hadn't rebooted the SQL Server during the holidays until a couple weeks ago and thought the services not auto-starting was just a fluke. We'll see if the Automatic (Delayed Start) works during the next maintenance window. The troubleshooting led us to this Microsoft Bug: 59557 It seems because our servers are now virtual on fast SSD drives, they boot too fast for service domain #user accounts to get authenticated. This Microsoft article outlines a work-around registry edit we can also try. A service does not start, and events 7000 and 7011 are logged in Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2 -Bill pfoppe‌

‎01-27-2017

Hi Patrick, Thank you for posting your item. FYI part two here, and I'll post in a geonet discussion too. Today we noticed similar "missing layers" is some ArcGIS Server 10.4.1 map services and found that the SQL Server windows services for our enterprise geodatabase that are set to start automatically did not start after a maintenance reboot last night. Starting the windows services manually works fine but some of the GIS map services were still only showing partial list of layers. Those SQL services are now changed from Automatic to Automatic (Delayed Start) I think they used to be set to Automatic (Delayed Start) but a recent SQL Server back in November to update from SQL 2008 R2 to SQL 2014 to get compliant with ArcGIS 10.4.1 probably set them back to default of just Automatic. We hadn't rebooted the SQL Server during the holidays until a couple weeks ago and thought the services not auto-starting was just a fluke. We'll see if the Automatic (Delayed Start) works during the next maintenance window. The troubleshooting led us to this Microsoft Bug: 59557 It seems because our servers are now virtual on fast SSD drives, they boot too fast for service domain #user accounts to get authenticated. This Microsoft article outlines a work-around registry edit we can also try. A service does not start, and events 7000 and 7011 are logged in Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2 -Bill ServicesPipeTimeout‌ #Service_Does_Not_Start_Automatically‌

‎01-18-2017

Yes, the report should have the same look and feel as the popup presents. A nice print table button, an export to CSV button and e-mail button Example of clicking on a parcel now just takes the x/y and the popup displays 1 of # to view. It should take the geometry of the parcel (and offer to buffer it +/- number of feet) and overlap it with all the layers in the map. A typical report could look like this: Parcel Number: 12345603ST Flood Control Districts AE DE Zoning R-1 R-A Census Tract 4987 Block Group 54654 Owner Smith John A Address 1234 Main Street City Limits Redlands State CA Building Permit 546464 321312 Assessed Value 656464646 Home Owner Exemption 7000 Senate District Jones Election Polling Place Fire Station 2 Soil Type Sandy etc.

Re: Your Guide to Named User Levels · ‎12-21-2016

I see a Change Member Level on the Right-Click menu for a user, but the dialog fails trying to change it from 1 to 2with error about the maximum number of level 1 members has been reached. The Subscription Status shows Level 1 is 0 of 0.

‎12-21-2016

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Your Guide to Named User Levels · ‎12-21-2016

Your Guide to Named User Levels https://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2016/12/20/your-guide-to-named-user-levels/#comment-10951 Question about this part: “All your existing Named Users have been automatically converted to Level 2 Named User.” “Please note that it is technically not possible to convert a Level 2 Named User to a Level 1 Named User.” If we cannot change them back to Level 1, why were they automatically converted to Level 2?

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Latest Contributions by BillFox

Allow all ArcGIS Data Stores to use UNC paths for Relational/Tile Cache/Spatiotemporal Big data stores and allow duplicate item names

Re: Is anyone else having ArcGIS Server 10.5 drawing errors with same feature class name in multiple schemas?

Re: Is anyone else having ArcGIS Server 10.5 drawing errors with same feature class name in multiple schemas?

ArcGIS Online and Portal: Display full date/time for "Modified" column in My Contents

ArcGIS Online and Portal: Display full date/time for "Modified" column in My Contents

Is anyone else having ArcGIS Server 10.5 drawing errors with same feature class name in multiple schemas?

Automatically e-mail ArcGIS Enterprise logs to system administrators

Re: ArcGIS Server: Missing layers in services... Cleared Rest Cache Fixed Issue (v10.3.1)

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Missing layers in map services and services not starting automatically

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