A new option has been made available when publishing services on ArcGIS Server 10. This is the ability to periodically check and repair data connections for idle instances. Dependant on architecture and configuration, services could loose connections to ArcSDE or the backend database.  This new option prevents idle services from losing their connections. When a service instance sits idle, it can be difficult for a server administrator to determine if connections to the source data are being successfully maintained. ArcGIS Server has built-in mechanisms to check for invalid connections to ArcSDE...

Over the last few weeks I have had a few users asking for detailed security requirements for ArcGIS Server 9.3 running on Windows. As such I wanted to remind everyone of a whitepaper that is published on the Enterprise Resource Centre. This document provides a list of security settings required for ArcGIS Server implementations. Most customers will not need to refer to this document, as the default installation steps help manage these settings automatically. This document is primarily for customers who need to manually set security settings in hardened environments. There are four primary areas of...

Security has been a big question when it comes to ArcGIS Server. We have a number of clients asking how to go about implementing simple security with ArcGIS Server. This was never easy in the past and a custom solution was required or IIS security but with ArcGIS Server 9.3, they have addressed this issue with some great options. Using the ArcGIS Server Manager you are now able to enable and control security. The ArcGIS Server Manager enabled security for services and the API’s. ArcGIS Server 9.3 has role based security and makes use of the ASP.NET security framework. For services there is a new...