James Fee GIS Blog

Richie Carmichael released ArcGIS Diagrammer 9.2 (beta) and it is very impressive. I’ve used Geodatabase Diagrammer in the past with Visio to create such graphics, but this new ArcGIS Diagrammer will simplify the process. ArcGIS Diagrammer is a visual editor for ESRI’s Xml Workspace Document that is created out of ArcCatalog. You can graphically manipulate [...]

As most of you already have heard via either the new RSS feeds or the support email, ArcGIS 9.3 9.2 Service Pack 3 is ready to be released by the end of the month. Jack’s Q&A from before the UC said that it would be released in July and it appears that they have hit [...]

I didn’t see much about this out of the 2007 User Conference, but an updated Technical Article spells it out. ArcGIS 9.2 Desktop and ArcGIS 9.2 Engine are currently undergoing certification on the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system with the 9.2 SP4 release targeted for October/November, 2007. Please note that this certification will not include [...]

UPDATE: I have no idea why ESRI doesn’t believe in permalinks so all those links below do nothing special. Sorry. I’m not going and probably most of you aren’t either so this might be your best bet as to getting an idea what might or might not be said Monday morning. ESRI International User Conference [...]

geoLibro spots mention of ArcSDE 9.2 support for PostgreSQL 8.2. Probably just a typo as ArcSDE support for PostgreSQL support is to be available at the ArcGIS 9.3 release.

Nate Irwin’s been working at getting MapDotNet Server 2007 to talk with ArcSDE 9.2. I’ve been experimenting quite a bit recently with MapDotNet Server 2007 (from hereon, referred to as MDNS), and I’ll say that I’m pretty impressed. Building maps in MDNS is admittedly more difficult than simply publishing an .mxd with ArcGIS Server – [...]

OK, where the heck is ArcSDE CAD Client for 9.2? Its May already and I still don’t see it on the ESRI support site. My choice right now is AutoCAD 2006 (or earlier) and ArcSDE 9.1 which isn’t much of a choice at all anymore (my company is in the process of upgrading us from [...]

As ESRI announced at the Developer Summit, April would be the month that ArcGIS 9.2 SP2 would be released. As luck would have it, SP2 arrived tonight. You can begin hitting the ESRI servers when you get into work in the morning: ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 2 – ArcGIS Desktop/Workstation, ArcReader, ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS [...]

The ESRI Support Center News Blog has an entry detailing some changes coming and some things that have already changed. I wonder if they’ll finally update their search engine to recognize ArcSDE?

Care to take a look at the questions that attendees to the Dev Summit asked and ESRI answered? Some questions/answers of note: Q: What are the plans for supporting the PostgreSQL database with ArcGIS Server (ArcSDE technology) and when will this functionality be available? ArcGIS Server (ArcSDE technology) will support the PostgreSQL database at the [...]

Back in November, before we all got our ArcGIS 9.2, ESRI posted an updated ArcGIS Desktop Life Cycle PDF that showed that ArcGIS 9.1 had entered “Extended Support”. I guess they changed their minds because it appears that 9.1 is still in “General Availability”. We are back to the ArcGIS 9.1 will be moved to [...]

It should. I’m not sure why 9.1 made it into this FAQ though…

No sooner than I post that ArcIMS 9.2 Service Pack 1 is out, the rest shows up on the ESRI Support site. Remember you need to download the separate ArcIMS and ArcSDE service packs even if you download the ArcGIS service pack. ESRI posted last week what was fixed in Service Pack 1, but some [...]

Wondering if ArcGIS 9.2 SP1 will address your problem? Check out ESRI’s ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 1 – Announcement page and find out. The first ArcGIS 9.2 service pack, ArcGIS 9.2 SP1 is planned to be available as a download to the public late the week of December 25, 2006. This service pack is to [...]

Rusty Planet reports that ESRI Tech Support is saying that Service Pack 1 for ArcGIS 9.2 will be delayed until after Christmas. The Tech Support operator did say that ESRI plans on releasing the Service Pack next week (week of December 25th). THERE IS NO SERVICE PACK HERE, NOW GO AWAY!

I’ve been holding back on this post trying to figure out what has changed since I last thought I understood ArcGIS 9.2 licensing. David Maguire goes into a pretty detailed post about ArcGIS Server 9.2′s Business Model. Basically what we’ve though about the cost of licensing the ADF on another server is less than I [...]

I’ve been getting a couple of readers panicked that they haven’t received ArcGIS 9.2 yet and there is already a Service Pack on the way. I’ll just repeat here what I’ve been emailing back, I have no idea why you haven’t received your copy yet. The best thing to do is talk to your ESRI [...]

Sean McGinnis posted in my comments that ESRI has released a whitepaper to help with migration of ArcGIS Server products to 9.2. Some points of note are (some of this is rehash if you’ve been following, but just to recap I’ll post the big stuff): ArcGIS Server now comes in 6 versions depending on functionality: [...]

Thanks to Joel for the heads up via email! The first ArcGIS 9.2 service pack, ArcGIS 9.2 SP1 is planned to be available as a download to the public late the week of December 18, 2006. This service pack is to help address issues users have encountered in the ArcGIS 9.2 release. CD media will [...]

Howard Butler had this problem back in October and now Paul Ramsey seems perplexed by the ESRI licensing agreement. I don’t believe we’ve heard anything back from the last time. If there is anything more confusing that ESRI licensing agreements, I’d like to see it. Our company is run by lawyers and they have trouble [...]