{"id":82891,"date":"2018-02-27T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T11:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/a-tale-of-two-portals-part-3-of-3\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:17:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:17:16","slug":"a-tale-of-two-portals-part-3-of-3","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/administration\/administration\/a-tale-of-two-portals-part-3-of-3","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Portals – Part 3 of 3"},"author":5091,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37501],"tags":[26071,36421,25971,24801],"industry":[],"product":[36551,36561],"class_list":["post-82891","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","tag-arcgis-pro-licensing","tag-named-user","tag-portal","tag-sharing","product-arcgis-online","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"A Tale of Two Portals: The concluding adventures of a GIS analyst who manages portal connections and license settings in ArcGIS Pro to sh...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

A Tale of Two Portals:<\/strong> The concluding adventures of a GIS analyst who manages portal connections and license settings in ArcGIS Pro to share maps to his two ArcGIS Online accounts.<\/em><\/p>\n

Part 3: Changing the ArcGIS Pro licensing portal<\/h2>\n

In this part, Wyatt gets a license update and changes his licensing portal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Go back to Part 2<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter 7: Persistence pays off<\/h3>\n

Wyatt tracked me down in the cafeteria, where I was reading up on Bitcoin and trying to eat my lunch in peace.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were talking about what happens when my ArcGIS Trial expires.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you converting it to a subscription?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not my call. It’s up to our treasurer.\u201d He took a piece of paper from his back pocket, unfolded it, and handed it to me. \u201cHere\u2019s that justification you wanted me to write for an Advanced license,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d been expecting an email with a few bullet points. Instead, I got a weird schematic drawing.<\/p>\n

\"Hand-drawn<\/a>
Wyatt’s sketch for a risk analysis of motor vehicle collisions with burros on Box Springs Mountain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was an analysis model. I couldn\u2019t follow it very well\u2014I haven\u2019t done any hands-on GIS in years\u2014but it seemed plausible. Something about donkeys crossing the road and visibility and whatnot. I guess Wyatt really did need all those specialized tools. \u201cOkay,\u201d I said. \u201cI\u2019ll change your license settings.\u201d<\/p>\n

We had some Advanced licenses available, but we were low on extensions. I like the flexibility of Named User licensing\u2014it\u2019s easy to assign licenses and easy to change license assignments if someone leaves the company or doesn\u2019t need a license anymore.<\/p>\n

After lunch, I scanned the Manage Licenses<\/strong> page of our organization for people who weren\u2019t active. I saw that one of our members hadn\u2019t used Pro since August\u2014around the time he became a department manager and started wearing fancy shirts.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
On the Manage Licenses page, I can see when our members last used ArcGIS Pro.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I selected Ulysses and revoked his extensions. That freed up four analysis extension licenses. Then I selected Wyatt. I changed his ArcGIS Pro license from Basic to Advanced and assigned him four extensions. I clicked Update<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"ArcGIS<\/a>
When I update the license, Wyatt gets an email notifying him that his account has been modified.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chapter 8: Wyatt changes his licensing portal<\/h3>\n

Now that he had an Advanced license, Wyatt was ready to reset his licensing portal to our organization. In ArcGIS Pro, he opened the Licensing <\/strong>page.<\/p>\n

\"Settings<\/a>
Wyatt\u2019s licensing portal is https:\/\/www.arcgis.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He clicked Configure your licensing options<\/strong>. In the Licensing <\/strong>dialog box, under ArcGIS Online<\/strong>, he replaced https:\/\/www.arcgis.com<\/span> with our organization\u2019s URL.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
After the licensing portal is changed, ArcGIS Pro needs to be restarted.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After restarting ArcGISPro and signing in, he went back to the Licensing <\/strong>page. He had an Advanced license and the four extensions I\u2019d given him. His licensing portal was set to https:\/\/iesc.maps.arcgis.com<\/span>. <\/p>\n

\"Licensing<\/a>
Wyatt\u2019s new license configuration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the Portals <\/strong>page, his licensing and active portal were now both set to our organization. He could have kept using https:\/\/www.arcgis.com<\/span> as the portal for his trial account, but he decided to replace it with the organization\u2019s URL. He added that portal and signed in to it. He selected and removed the arcgis.com portal.<\/p>\n

\"Portals<\/a>
Wyatt\u2019s licensing and active portal are set to the Inland Empire Squires Council. A connection is available to the Box Springs Mountain Reserve.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chapter 9: Wyatt switches active portals<\/h3>\n

When their ArcGIS Trial expired, Wyatt\u2019s conservation group converted it to a subscription. They also purchased a couple of ArcGIS Pro Basic licenses. Wyatt kept his licensing portal set to the Inland Empire Squires Council.<\/p>\n

He continued to make maps for both organizations, changing his active portal as needed. He discovered that he could do this easily by clicking his sign-in status<\/strong> in the upper right corner of the ArcGIS Pro window and clicking Switch Active Portal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Sign-in<\/a>
Wyatt switches his active portal from the sign-in status drop-down menu.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Everything was fine until Ulysses Athanasakos showed up at my office wondering where his extensions went.<\/p>\n

\u201cNice shirt, Uly,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

The End<\/em><\/p>\n

Map layers in these images are based on data from Riverside County Open Data<\/a>. Thanks to the Riverside County GIS Department. 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