With the release of ArcGIS 10 coming up there has been an update of the ArcGIS Product Life Cycle documentation. The Product Life Cycle Support Policy is designed to help communicate to ESRI users the technical support resources available during a product’s life span and to provide advanced notification of planned changes to available support options. On the release date of ArcGIS 10: ArcGIS 9.3 and ArcGIS 9.3.1 will be moved into Extended support. ArcGIS 9.2 will be moved into Mature support. ArcGIS 9.1 will be moved into Retired status A number of Product Life Cycle documentation has...

ArcGIS Product Life Cycle’s have been updated for the recent ArcGIS 9.3.1 release. No big changes. ArcGIS 9.3.1 and ArcGIS 9.3 are in general availability with ArcGIS 9.2 in extended support. ArcGIS 9.1 is in mature support. Versions before ArcGIS 9.1 are retired and no longer supported. The documentation can be found here: ArcGIS ArcGIS Server ArcGIS Imager Server ArcGIS Engine Developer Kit ArcGIS Engine Runtime Something new to note is that ArcGIS 9.1 will be moved to retired support with the release of ArcGIS...

After the ESRI Developer Summit 2009 in Palm Springs last week, I spent Friday at the ESRI campus in Redlands. It was great catching up with the Application Prototype Team and seeing what they have been working. One of the nice samples Richie has been working on is the Presentation Extension for ArcGIS Desktop. What does it offer? Well it allows users to give presentations directly from ArcMap without the need for Microsoft Powerpoint. It also gives users the ability to interact with the map during the presentation. The sample comes with a Presentation Manager and a Presentation Window. It’s built...

ESRI has released a bundle of information on what’s coming in ArcGIS 9.3.1. Firstly ArcGIS 9.3.1 should not be confused with a service pack release. ArcGIS 9.3.1 is a dot release which will include product enhancements and certain bug fixes. ArcGIS 9.3.1 improves the performance of dynamic map publishing and increases the sharing of geographic information. Being a dot release means that ArcGIS 9.3.1 will NOT be made available for users to downloaded. ESRI will automatically ship ArcGIS 9.3.1 to users current on maintenance. Service Pack’s will still be available for users to download from the...

This week I have been doing some research and development around some of the new sample viewers that ESRI has build for ArcGIS Server 9.3 users. Sample viewers exist for the different API’s and is freely available for users to download and extend. Today I thought I would download and have a look at the Sample ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API Viewer. This viewer can be found and downloaded from the Code Gallery on the ArcGIS Server Resource Centre here: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisserver/… Included in the .zip is a developers guide and the folder containing all the required files. The...

I have now got ArcGIS 9.3 successfully installed and running well on Microsoft Windows 7.  So it was a bit of a task to figure out why things wouldn’t work on Windows 7 and basically the problems came down to the following: Registering vbscript.dll Installing Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 4.0 SP2 In Windows Vista Compatibility Mode Running ArcGIS 9.3 Installation With Elevated Permissions Full instructions on how to install ArcGIS 9.3 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 7 can be found in my post here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… I will be testing general compatibility over the next few...

[Update 1 Below] [Update 2 Below] [Update 3 Below] So this afternoon I decided to install Microsoft Windows 7 on one of my laptops. The install ran very well. A few drivers were missing but once connected to the internet the rest of the drivers were all updated. Thought it was time to install ArcGIS 9.3. Mounted the ISO using Virtual CloneDrive. Daemon Tools does not work on Windows 7 so Virtual CloneDrive is a good alternative. Mounted the ArcEditor 9.3 ISO and selected the options I normally do. Just beginning the install and I get this: Hmm ok, weird I thought. I decided to try it again. This is...

This is a great and very useful post from Emeline who is a Support Analyst with ESRI. Emeline polled the ArcGIS Server Usage Team and came up with a top ten most helpful ArcGIS Server help topics that are available from the ESRI Support Centre. No matter how you use ArcGIS Server, whether you are an administrator, developer, or the analyst responsible for making the maps and models, these topics are worth adding to your Favorites folder! The list counting down is as follows: 10. Performance Tips for Web Applications 9.5. Tuning and Configuring Services 9. Working with Configuration Files 8. Checklist...

ESRI released ArcGIS 9.3 Service Pack 1 earlier this month. SP1 included an enormous number of fixes and enhancements. Since the release an important issue has been discovered which ESRI has released a patch for. ESRI® announces the ArcGIS 9.3 SP1 (Desktop, Engine, Server) Topology Validation Patch. This patch includes a fix to an issue that only occurs when validating a geodatabase topology. The geodatabase topology may incorrectly modify the shape of true curves in your data. We recommend that you download and install this patch at your earliest convenience to ensure the highest quality experience...

After a very successful release earlier this year, ESRI has released the first update for the ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API. ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API 1.2 is now available. <script type="text/javascript" src=http://serverapi.arcgisonline.com/jsapi/arcgis/?v=1.2></script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href=http://serverapi.arcgisonline.com/jsapi/ arcgis/1.2/js/dojo/dijit/themes/tundra/tundra.css></link> This new updates comes packed with a bundle of new enhancements and corresponds with the recent release of ArcGIS 9.3 Service Pack 1....