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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:26 AM

New paper on high-capacity map services; functionality matrix updated

We’ve just published a new paper that discusses strategies for creating a dynamic map service that supports heavy user loads. The paper is the latest release in the ArcGIS Server in Practice Series, which describes how to optimally configure ArcGIS Server
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:25 AM

Dealing with underscore characters in your Web server name

Today, many individuals and organizations have conventions in place that restrict how a machine or web server can be named. Commonly, underscore characters ( _ ) are used to separate strings and numeric labels, such as SERVER_1234, or to assure that special
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Friday, July 31, 2009 9:25 AM

New white paper gives metrics, best practices for a workgroup ArcGIS Server deployment

You probably wonder how much you can get out of a four-core machine with ArcGIS Server. The answer depends on what you do... We've prepared a new white paper document where you can see some interesting metrics on the throughput of a workgroup ArcGIS Server
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Friday, June 26, 2009 7:25 AM

New ESRI white paper discusses ArcGIS Server and virtualization

Virtualization, which allows multiple operating systems and applications to share the resources of a physical machine, is probably a word that you have heard. Many IT departments are adopting virtualization as part of a broader strategy to conserve resources
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Monday, April 27, 2009 11:50 AM

Using detailed logging with ArcGIS Server 9.3

During the initial releases of ArcGIS Server, many users asked for fine-grained logging down to the layer draw level. This functionality was added to ArcGIS Server 9.3 as a new logging level Info:Detailed. The detailed logging is especially helpful when
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Monday, April 06, 2009 10:16 AM

Parallel processing with ArcGIS Server: A case study with geocoding

You're probably already familiar with creating Web applications and services with ArcGIS Server, but in this blog post we're going to talk about how you can use ArcGIS Server to run very large back-end jobs. We'll also do it in the context of geocoding,
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:44 AM

Creating an ArcGIS Server Java custom security store

ArcGIS Server at 9.3 introduces Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to secure capabilities published by the GIS Server. ArcGIS Server comes with a default embedded database system to maintain all user and role information. ArcGIS Server for Java provides
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:01 PM

ArcGIS Server 9.3 Nationwide Seminar Series occurring now

ESRI has been working on two, half-day ArcGIS Server 9.3 Seminars . These seminars started September 23rd and are taking place through November within the U.S. This is a great opportunity to see how to implement ArcGIS Server to its fullest capabilities.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:04 PM

Strategies for on-demand caching

ArcGIS Server 9.3 introduces the option to create map cache tiles "on demand" as they are visited by users. The first user to navigate to an uncached area must wait while the corresponding tiles are drawn by the server. The tiles are then added to the
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 5:08 PM

Understanding the 9.3 System Requirements

The ArcGIS Server 9.3 system requirements are available at http://wikis.esri.com/wiki/display/ag93bsr/ArcGIS+Server . You can access them from the ESRI Support page or ArcGIS Resource Center. The system requirements are now broken up by the different
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:08 PM

The REST API cache

"I published my map service but I don't see it in my Services Directory." We've received similar questions on the forums from users asking why their services are not showing up in the Services Directory. The reason in most cases is that they didn't clear
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:52 AM

Design patterns for Web maps

Web maps often contain a base map, which provides a geographic frame of reference, and operational (or thematic) layers, which show a focused item of interest on top of the base map. A familiar example might be an online mapping service that provides
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Friday, August 01, 2008 11:08 AM

2008 UC Featured Workshop: Case Studies of Building and Deploying Enterprise ArcGIS Server Solutions

ArcGIS Server has a scalable architecture that can accommodate a few users in a small office to thousands of users scattered worldwide. If you’re in charge of a large deployment, consider attending “Case Studies of Building and Deploying Enterprise ArcGIS
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 2:36 PM

Taskbar scripts for administering services

Bryan Baker, a Product Engineer on the ArcGIS Server development team, contributed this post: Working with ArcGIS Server requires you to stop and start services on occasion. In fact, the server object manager (SOM)itself is represented by the Windows
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Friday, January 25, 2008 8:49 AM

Optimizing your web services by avoiding per-request impersonation

Here’s a tip that can improve your ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .Net Framework performance if your web services are receiving many requests over an extended period of time. When someone makes a request from one of your web services, the web server
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