"},{"ID":356032,"user_firstname":"Riley","user_lastname":"Winkler","nickname":"Riley Winkler","user_nicename":"rwinkler","display_name":"Riley Winkler","user_email":"rwinkler@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2024-04-09 15:58:49","user_description":"Riley is a Product Marketing Manager on the ArcGIS Enterprise team. In her role, she focuses on supporting customer success by developing resources for effective onboarding, training, and adoption of ArcGIS Enterprise on Windows and Linux.","user_avatar":"
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"}],"short_description":"Explore new features and functionality in ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 on Windows and Linux.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 <\/span>for Windows and Linux <\/span>is here, bringing a host of exciting updates and enhancements designed to <\/span>improve the<\/span> way you manage, analyze, and visualize your data.<\/span> This<\/span> version is packed with features that <\/span>benefit<\/span> a wide range of users, including GIS administrators managing user access, IT professionals ensuring system security, GIS analysts conducting spatial analysis, and developers building custom applications<\/span>.<\/span> Fr<\/span>om i<\/span>mproved security <\/span>posture<\/span> and<\/span> enhanced<\/span> observability<\/span> to powerful<\/span> tools for 3D visualization and data integration<\/span>, this release has something for everyone.<\/span> In this blog, <\/span>we’ll<\/span> guide you through the updates and enhancements tailored to your role, exploring how they can make your GIS work more <\/span>efficient<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":" ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 is a short-term support release that introduces the next generation of self-hosted GIS, bringing both exciting new functionality and feature retirements that may require <\/span>additional<\/span> planning prior to upgrading. To ensure a smooth upgrade, <\/span>it’s<\/span> recommended to review the <\/span><\/span>features deprecated in version 11.5 and retired in 12.0.<\/span><\/span><\/a> Alongside these retirements, there are also <\/span><\/span>product life cycle updates for ArcGIS Enterprise on Windows and Linux<\/span><\/span><\/a> to consider. If you upgrade less than once a year, consider using a long-term support release. More on this can be found in the <\/span><\/span>product documentation.<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image_reference":false,"layout":"standard","image_reference_figure":"","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" Key features of ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 :<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Jump to a section in this blog to start exploring.<\/p>\n ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 empower<\/span>s<\/span> GIS administrators <\/span>to manage their organizations with greater confidence and efficiency. <\/span>This release <\/span>introduces<\/span>,<\/span> additional<\/span> insight into <\/span>system updates<\/span> and more granular controls over user experiences and application access. With improved tools for content and data management, administrators can ensure data integrity<\/span>, simplify governance, and provide a seamless experience for users across the organization.<\/span><\/p>\n ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 introduces new features and enhancements that give administrators more fine-grained control over user experiences, helping members work more efficiently. <\/span>With the ability to configure custom sign-in experiences for different member categories, administrators can tailor what users see when they log in, streamlining the process across the organization.<\/span> <\/span>Custom categories for registered apps also allow administrators to better organize<\/span> and control sign-in <\/span>options<\/span> for app users and organization<\/span> members.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To enhance the organization administration experience, improvements to app blocking now allow administrators to restrict access to ArcGIS Pro through the ArcGIS Enterprise portal even if it is granted by default with a member\u2019s user type. These enhanced controls for managing application access are complemented by updates to user types, which further expand the capabilities available to your teams and simplify administration.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n User types empower GIS Administrators to deliver more capabilities to their teams, ensuring users have access to the right tools for their roles and streamlining organizational workflows. Upon upgrading to ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0, the following additional products are included in user types: ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App Standard is now included with the Creator user type and above, ArcGIS CityEngine is included with the Professional user type, ArcGIS Navigator is included with Mobile Worker and above, and ArcGIS Urban is included with Professional Plus. These updates help organizations maximize the value of their ArcGIS investment by making advanced applications more widely available and simplifying license management for administrators. Learn more about user types on the <\/span>overview webpage<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Additionally, organization administrators should be aware that the ability to provide a Bing Maps key to configure Bing Maps basemaps will no longer be available at ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0. If a Bing Map was configured prior to upgrading to ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 and a basemap was added to a web map in Map Viewer Classic, that web map will work with the Bing Maps basemap until the Bing Maps key expires. Read the <\/span>Deprecation Notice<\/span><\/a> to learn more.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the realm of content management, GIS administrators play a crucial role in maintaining the integrity and usability of data, ensuring that it\u2019s always up-to-date and accessible. One of the most significant challenges in this role is managing the vast array of data sources, both internal and external, that users rely on for their GIS projects. With the introduction of new <\/span>Organization Settings<\/span><\/b>, GIS administrators now have new organizational settings to curate users\u2019 access to localized and external Esri content in the ArcGIS Enterprise portal, streamlining the user experience and enhancing data governance.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n GIS administrators play a vital role as custodians of the data that powers maps and applications, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and accessibility. With ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0, several improvements have been made to support their work. Notably, the item details pages have been updated to match the style seen across the ArcGIS Enterprise portal. This consistent design allows administrators to locate information quickly, reduces the time needed to train new users, and helps minimize errors during data management. As a result, these changes not only enhance the overall user experience but also streamline daily workflows for GIS administrators.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" Whether you’re looking to enhance your security posture, optimize your cloud deployments, or gain better visibility into your server performance, this release has something for every IT administrator.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 brings features that enable administrators to improve sign-in security. As an administrator tasked with managing data access and security, you can now enforce multifactor authentication (MFA) for users. Enforcing MFA helps users protect their accounts by requiring an additional verification step, making it much harder for unauthorized individuals to gain access, even if a password is compromised. Additionally, the <\/span>allowedProxyHosts<\/span><\/b> property\u2014previously an advanced setting\u2014has become a basic security requirement. This change ensures that only explicitly approved external domains can be accessed via the portal\u2019s proxy capability, mitigating risks such as Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Building on these security improvements, ArcGIS Enterprise now offers greater flexibility for cloud deployments. IT administrators can configure ArcGIS Server directories to reside in highly durable <\/span>cloud storage services<\/span><\/b> like Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage. This update eliminates the need for dedicated file servers, reducing infrastructure complexity and cost, while improving resiliency and scalability in high-availability environments.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In addition, ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 delivers improved observability with support for using <\/span>Prometheus to capture<\/span><\/b> ArcGIS Server metrics (beta). This feature provides deeper insights into system health and performance by exposing key information such as transaction times, user account activity, and hardware details. Together, these enhancements empower IT teams to manage their environments with greater confidence and efficiency.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 introduces several updates that make system management more efficient and proactive for IT administrators. To begin, you can now use the \u2018About\u2019 page to quickly view details about your organization\u2019s recent backups and installed patches, helping you stay informed about system status and maintenance. Expanding these improvements, the release makes it easier to manage security-related tasks. For example, you can configure email settings so that administrative contacts automatically receive notifications when the SSL certificate used on port 7443 is nearing expiration. This ensures timely action and helps prevent service interruptions. Together, these enhancements streamline routine monitoring and alerting, allowing IT teams to maintain a secure and reliable ArcGIS Enterprise environment.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Continuing the theme of streamlined system management, ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 also brings notable improvements to the ArcGIS Data Store experience. The browser-based interface used to configure or upgrade ArcGIS Data Store deployments has been improved to correct errors, streamline links, and match the style of other interfaces in ArcGIS.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 delivers powerful new tools and enhancements for GIS Analysts, streamlining workflows and boosting productivity across mapping, data management, and analysis. With updates to Map Viewer, Scene Viewer, and core analysis capabilities, this release makes it easier to discover, visualize, and manage geospatial data.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n These two key features are both in beta in this release and are delivered as two key enhancements that will help to streamline data management workflows.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Item Details Assistant (beta)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Metadata plays a critical role in enabling search, content discovery, data reuse, and governance\u2014especially within ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise, which host millions of items. With the rise of AI, metadata has become even more essential. One highlight of this release that will impact GIS analyst workflows is the ability to generate item details more easily with the Item Details assistant (beta). To help jumpstart and enhance metadata creation, the Item Details assistant uses generative AI to enrich information about your items by suggesting improvements to titles, summaries, descriptions, tags, and attribute field details. Learn more about how this assistant can make <\/span>your data easier to find, understand, and reuse in <\/span>this blog<\/span><\/a>, and join the beta in the <\/span>Early Adopters Community<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2948777,"id":2948777,"title":"ItemDetailsAssistant_Jordan Duft","filename":"ItemDetailsAssistant_Jordan-Duft.gif","filesize":1381721,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ItemDetailsAssistant_Jordan-Duft.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-enterprise\/announcements\/whats-new-in-arcgis-enterprise-12-0\/itemdetailsassistant_jordan-duft","alt":"Jumpstart creating information about your content using the Item Details assistant.","author":"356032","description":"","caption":"Item page for a hosted feature layer, showing the interface where users can launch the Item Details assistant to create and review metadata suggestions.","name":"itemdetailsassistant_jordan-duft","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2945673,"date":"2025-11-17 19:15:53","modified":"2025-11-17 19:16:15","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1352,"height":632,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ItemDetailsAssistant_Jordan-Duft-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ItemDetailsAssistant_Jordan-Duft.gif","medium-width":464,"medium-height":217,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ItemDetailsAssistant_Jordan-Duft.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":359,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ItemDetailsAssistant_Jordan-Duft.gif","large-width":1352,"large-height":632,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ItemDetailsAssistant_Jordan-Duft.gif","1536x1536-width":1352,"1536x1536-height":632,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ItemDetailsAssistant_Jordan-Duft.gif","2048x2048-width":1352,"2048x2048-height":632,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ItemDetailsAssistant_Jordan-Duft-826x386.gif","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":386,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ItemDetailsAssistant_Jordan-Duft.gif","wide_image-width":1352,"wide_image-height":632}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" ArcGIS Data Pipelines (beta)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Another key highlight with ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 is the introduction of ArcGIS Data Pipelines (beta). This new server role enables ArcGIS Data Pipelines, a no-code, visual data engineering capability that makes it easy to prepare and integrate data for mapping and analytics. With ArcGIS Data Pipelines, organizations can connect to datasets from a variety of sources and use common data engineering tools to clean, format, and combine them. The resulting datasets are saved and managed as hosted feature layers. Users can author and run data pipelines, as well as schedule them to automate data updates. ArcGIS Data Pipelines is now in beta for Windows and Linux and available to all ArcGIS Enterprise Advanced customers. To get started, check out <\/span>this blog<\/span><\/a> and join the <\/span>ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 Beta Features Early Adopters Community<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2948781,"id":2948781,"title":"Screenshot-7Ent","filename":"Screenshot-7Ent-1.png","filesize":463210,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-7Ent-1.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-enterprise\/announcements\/whats-new-in-arcgis-enterprise-12-0\/screenshot-7ent-2","alt":"ArcGIS Data Pipelines (Beta) user interface showing a flow diagram of data used in a map layer called \"Update Bicycle Infra Layer\"","author":"356032","description":"","caption":"A data pipeline consists of one or more inputs (1), tools (2), and outputs (3). 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