I am sure if you have been working with ArcGIS 9.3.1, 10 and running this on Microsoft Windows Vista, 7 you would have come across issues when using help! When you start ArcMap or ArcCatalog, pressing F1 launches the ArcGIS Help Library. This is a useful library to navigate through to find information. Currently this works on Microsoft Windows Vista, 7. Pressing F1 after ArcMap or ArcCatalog has been started also displays this dialog window. This is standard Microsoft Windows Vista, 7 dialog indicating that the help was created in Windows Help Format. This is an older format which is not installed...

ArcGIS 9.3 is fully supported on Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows Server 2008. The full support listing for this can be found here: http://support.esri.com/index.cfm… Before installing ArcGIS Server on these operating systems there a few features or components that need to be enabled on the server. IIS 7.0 is very modularised which means that installing IIS doesn’t install all the features. You have to manually go in and select the features of IIS that you require. Chris Whitemore who is one of the Installation Product Engineer’s has provided some tips on how to go about doing...

I thought I would mention about this change in Microsoft Windows Vista SP1. If you have installed SP1 and like me spend most of your day in remote desktop sessions, there is often a need to remote desktop to the console on the server or machine. Normally one would use mstsc /console /v:127.0.0.1. You will notice that after installing SP1 that /console does not work anymore. Why? Well that’s because Microsoft has decided to change the name to make it more descriptive I guess. Now you use mstsc /admin /v:127.0.0.1. Basically it’s the change from /console to /admin. You can see this by...

It’s taken me a little while to get around to installing Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 on my work laptop. This is mainly due to lots of other work I have had on and I was a bit hesitant in breaking my existing setup. I have been running Windows Vista SP1 now for a while on other machines: http://mandown.co.nz/microsoft/… I made the call on Friday to go ahead and install SP1 as I needed to install SP5. I had to grab the x64 version of SP1 which has a nice 726 MB download and install. The installation took a reasonable while to complete and went well. Once this was completed I installed SP5 for...

More and more users out there are making the moving to x64. The processors coming out these days are all x64 an I have noticed recently that users are starting install Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 to run their applications. This is good move although there is a little configuration to get ArcGIS Server 9.2 running on Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP or even Windows 2000. This configuration change is to do with the .NET Framework and IIS. You have to enabled 32-bit application support on IIS. This is because ArcGIS Server 9.2 runs as a native 32-bit application on x64. ArcGIS Server 9.2 and...

ESRI has released a press release which talks about ArcGIS 9.3 and it’s support for Microsoft Windows Vista. The outcome brings integrated compatibility which increases stability. For those wondering if ArcGIS 9.3 will support Windows Vista, I think this answers your question. I am not sure yet whether it will support SP1 which has now been released. I would think it would but we would have to wait and see. Integrated Compatibility Will Increase StabilityRedlands, California—ESRI’s upcoming ArcGIS 9.3 software release will fully support the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system across...

Microsoft has released Windows Vista SP1. This was released to manufacturing in early February but was not available to end users. End users are now able to download Windows Vista SP1 from the Microsoft Download Centre or via Windows Update. I have been running SP1 on one of my development laptops but have yet to try it with ArcGIS 9.2 SP4 or ArcGIS Server 9.2 SP4. I will do this when I get back from the ESRI Developer Summit. You can download SP1 from the following links: x86 x64 An overview on Windows Vista SP1 can be found here:...

I seem to receive many emails from people asking how to go about doing this. I did mention a while ago that I was going to post information on how to get ArcGIS Server 9.2 SP4 installed on Microsoft Windows Vista but I never got around to it. This was mainly around the IIS configuration side of things. So here it is today. Due to the security and IIS changes in Windows Vista, certain parts of ArcGIS Server seem to break. There are however some easy fixes to get around the issues. I have been running ArcGIS Server 9.2 SP4 on my Windows Vista laptop now for quite a while and I haven’t noticed many...

I see this morning that Microsoft has made Windows Vista SP1 available to MSDN and Technet Subscribers. You can access this in the Top Subscribers Downloads section on the subscriptions home page. I have yet to test ArcGIS 9.2 SP4 with Windows Vista SP1, will do very soon and post the results. Head over and download it from...

Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing last week. I wrote about this here: Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 RTM. Since then I have installed Microsoft Windows Vista SP1: Installing Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 and downloaded Microsoft Windows Server 2008. The download is available on MDSN. It was pretty quick to create a VMware image of Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008 now ships with the same activation as Windows Vista. No more VLK keys to activate the server for an eternity! By default when you install Windows Server 2008 without entering a product...