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Overview

Notes from upgrading from ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6.1 to 10.7.

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The ESRI PowerShell for DSC project support upgrades as well as installs. The steps required to put this into practice will follow.

• Related doc here

• ESRI Powershell DSC has a new version - ArcGIS 2.01.01

Process

• Ensure backup exists

• Update the ARM template parameters to ensure all timestamp properties have been increased.

• Ensure backups are in place to facilitate a restore if something goes awry.

• the CSE will copy the new install media

  • Increase timestamp or remove CSE extension from VMs

• Run ARM template to ensure proper infrastructure config and to re-run the Custom Scripts Extensions.-

  • CSE will copy new install media and DSC templates

  • CSE will ensure the current ArcGIS PowerShell module is installed

• Create a DSC upgrade template from the original deployment template

• Remote desktop to web/web0 to WEB0 as user \egisadmin

• Copy this template to the WEB0 VM and ensure that all passwords and paths are correct

• Remote desktop to WEB0 as user cloud\argisservice

• Handle multiple versions of the ArcGIS PowerShell Module

  • May need to update the ArcGIS PowerShell module

    • Get-InstalledModule -Name "ArcGIS" -RequiredVersion 1.1.3 | Uninstall-Module

• Run the script as follows as the cloud\arcgisservice user

  • If there are auto-shutdown configurations in place and this script is starting late in the day then it may be prudent to disable auto-shutdown (Check tags and VM auto-shutdown settings)

# Powershell
Configure-ArcGIS `
-ConfigurationParametersFile 'D:\DSC\PowerShell DSC\some_upgrade_config.json `
-Mode Upgrade 

# Optional
-Credential [Config RunAs - Optional]
-DebugSwitch False

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• Wait for completion

Post-Upgrade

• Quick tests

  • Portal loads

  • Log in

  • Server valid according to Portal > Organization > Settings > Servers

  • Data store valid according to Server > Site > Data Stores

  • Created new hosted layer from CSV

• Confirm Basemaps

  • Go into the Org settings, click the Map tab, check Share the Esri default basemaps to this group when you click Save, select Raster Basemaps, and click Save.

• To fix the CAHS symbols, we should invoke the ConfigureCAHSSymbols script against the environment

• TODO- better wording?Remove and re-add custom print templates

Past upgrades

• DEV 2020-01-13 Upgrade DEV to 10.7.1

• STG 2020-01-14 Update STG to 10.7.1