Portal for ArcGIS 11.1 Sharing Patch

Esri announces the Portal for ArcGIS 11.1 Sharing Patch. This patch addresses, BUG-000158232, a defect that causes the sharing of items to fail when a member owns or manages a large number of groups that are configured to only allow the group owner or managers to contribute content. Additionally, this patch resolves other defects related to the Home Application, Map Viewer, ArcGIS Experience Builder, webhooks, and creating offline areas. Esri recommends this patch for all users of ArcGIS Enterprise 11.1. This patch deals specifically with the issues listed below under Issues Addressed with this Patch.

Before installing this patch on Windows, first run the Portal for ArcGIS Validation and Repair tool to validate that your ArcGIS Enterprise deployment is ready to have Portal for ArcGIS patches applied.

Refer to this Technical Support page for information about these bugs and Esri's planned response.

• BUG-000160803 - Unable to access secured services with saved credentials when using a forward proxy that requires authentication.
• BUG-000160633 - When selecting features from the map using the Query widget with a buffer, ArcGIS Experience Builder fails to include the query results from the buffered area in a linked Table widget.
• BUG-000159271 - Warnings are erroneously logged for ArcGIS Notebooks and ArcGIS Mission while trying to refresh a webhook configuration.
• BUG-000158980 - Trying to add a service to the Map Viewer or as an item is resulting in an infinite loop of checkURL-requests when the allowedProxyHosts-parameter does not contain the domain of the service.
• BUG-000158910 - The Web GIS Disaster Recovery (WebGISDR) tool fails to create a backup if the backup of Portal for ArcGIS indicates items are missing.
• BUG-000158232 - Members are not able to share items with groups through the ArcGIS Enterprise portal when owning or managing more than 29 groups configured to only allow owners and managers to contribute content.
• BUG-000158161 - Include the Embed configurable application in Portal for ArcGIS 11.2.
• BUG-000157727 - On the Organization > Overview page, the 'Administrative contacts' section fails to load.
• BUG-000157485 - Unable to create an offline area for a large data size in Portal for ArcGIS due to a size limit.

To avoid conflicts this patch also addresses:

• BUG-000158430 - In ArcGIS Web AppBuilder, the Geoprocessing widget returns an incorrect output for the selected feature if the 'Set as input for Geoprocessing' option is not selected in the Select widget. 

The ArcGIS product listed in the table must be installed on your system before you can install a patch. Each patch setup is specific to the ArcGIS product in the list. To determine which products are installed on your system, please see the How to identify which ArcGIS products are installed section. Esri recommends that you install the patch for each product that is on your system.

Before installing this patch on Windows, the ArcGIS Enterprise deployment must first be validated by running the Portal for ArcGIS Validation and Repair tool. Please download and run the Portal for ArcGIS Validation and Repair tool before attempting to install this patch

Step 1: Download the appropriate file to a location other than your ArcGIS installation location.

Step 2: Make sure you have write access to your ArcGIS installation location.

Step 3: Double-click ArcGIS-111-PFA-S-Patch.msp to start the setup process.

NOTE: If double clicking on the msp file does not start the setup installation, you can start the setup installation manually by using the following command:

Complete the following install steps as the ArcGIS Install owner. The Install owner is the owner of the arcgis folder.

The ArcGIS product listed in the table must be installed on your system before you can install a patch. Each patch setup is specific to the ArcGIS product in the list. To determine which products are installed on your system, please see the How to identify which ArcGIS products are installed section. Esri recommends that you install the patch for each product that is on your system.

Step 1: Download the appropriate file to a location other than your ArcGIS installation location.

Step 2: Make sure you have write access to your ArcGIS installation location, and that no one is using ArcGIS.

Step 3: Extract the specified tar file by typing:

Step 4: Start the installation by typing:

This will start the dialog for the menu-driven installation procedure. Default selections are noted in parentheses ( ). To quit the installation procedure, type 'q' at any time.

To uninstall this patch on Windows, open the Windows Control Panel and navigate to installed programs. Make sure that "View installed updates" (upper left side of the Programs and Features dialog) is active. Select the patch name from the programs list and click Uninstall to remove the patch.

To remove this patch, navigate to the <Product Installation Directory>/.Setup/qfe directory and run the following script as the ArcGIS Install owner:

The removepatch.sh script allows you to uninstall previously installed patches or hot fixes. Use the -s status flag to get the list of installed patches or hot fixes ordered by date. Use the -q flag to remove patches or hot fixes in reverse chronological order by date they were installed. Type removepatch -h for usage help.

Restart your ArcGIS services.

To determine which ArcGIS products are installed, choose the appropriate version of the PatchFinder utility for your environment and run it from your local machine. PatchFinder will list all products, hot fixes, and patches installed on your local machine.

PatchFinder for Windows

PatchFinder for Linux/Unix