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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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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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Friday, May 01, 2009 9:50 AM

Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

In a previous post Design patterns for Web maps , we talked about strategies and challenges for displaying different types of map layers on the Web for the best performance. Caching is the fastest way to serve Web maps, but requires an initial time investment
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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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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:27 PM

Performance tips for Web applications

How do you get an ArcGIS Server application to run as fast as possible on the Web? This is one of the most common questions we receive, and at version 9.3 we added an ArcGIS Server help topic on this subject called Performance tips for web applications
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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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Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:38 AM

Tips for caching by feature class

The ArcGIS Server 9.3 map caching tools allow you to create tiles based on the boundaries of a feature class. Caching by feature class allows you to create tiles only in the places where you need them, avoiding empty or uninteresting areas. For example,
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Monday, November 17, 2008 11:18 AM

Developing scriptable controls with the .NET Web ADF

A key consideration when designing a custom web control is where the control’s logic will execute. While all the logic could be put in either the client or the web tier, the best approach is usually to place some logic in each tier. User interface data
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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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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:04 PM

Building a partial map cache at large scales

We’re occasionally asked how to build a partial map cache at large scale levels, while having a full cache at smaller scales. This is useful if you have highly detailed data in certain areas of your map. For example, you might have medium resolution data
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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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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:31 AM

Online seminar for optimizing map services

The ESRI Virtual Campus recently released a recording of the training seminar Authoring and Publishing Optimized Map Services . Excellently presented by Danielle Hopkins (ESRI Educational Services) and Tom Bole (ESRI Development), the seminar covers best
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