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I have been a big proponent of switching to Pro, and have put in a lot of time and effort on ESRI's behalf as our vendor, urging users across our multi-campus consortium for years even though for much of that time it could best be described as being in beta-stage. Even so, it still has several bugs, or is missing key functionality that ArcMap has, that has thrown big wrenches into 101 courses and other parts of our curriculum and for established publication workflows for public research agencies housed out of our Universities. And, as others have noted here, there are several cases where ArcMap is still required for research due to 3rd party products. Where applicable we've been pointing our researchers to other vendors / options for similar tools I agree with others here about the Higher Ed Team's process and communication around this being far from optimal. For over 5 years we were told we had until 2026 to make the transition. Needless to say, the sudden introduction of friction in obtaining ArcMap licenses in 2022, followed by the surprise announcement above that ESRI changed its mind and is only giving Higher Ed until 2024 to make the switch, seems weirdly punitive/bully-ish and not respectful of its customer base, let alone receptive to the under-resourced realities of many of their customers in Higher Ed and the various obstacles we face. ESRI's process around this conveys a belief at ESRI that GIS staff on campuses can somehow make money, staff, equipment, infrastructure, and streamlined bureaucratic processes appear on the spot out of thin air to rapidly pivot to vendor desires. Many of our procurement timelines around getting newer machines that meet recommended, let alone required, specs for ArcPro were based on the 2026 deadline: we have entire labs of relatively new machines that only just barely meet ArcPro's minimum specs from last year. Many smaller campuses with only a single part-time GIS instructor were also basing their curriculum and staffing changes on that 2026 deadline. These sudden changes, on top of perennial SNAFUs on ESRI's end with our licensing creating several dire emergencies on our end, has created hundreds of hours of additional, and completely preventable, work for our IT staff, instructors, license admins, etc. over the past few years. This whole process of suddenly moving the goalposts, and the poor "last-minute" broadcast communication style around it, has eroded much of the good faith and trust our campus community has historically had with ESRI as a software vendor. While we get one heck of a deal with the Higher Education License agreement, for what most of us are paying we deserve better from the Higher Ed team in this regard.
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We're looking to transfer ownership of a storymap in our AGOL organization from one account to another. What's unclear is if the ownership of the content that storymap references (maps, layers, photos, etc...) is also transferred to the new account or if the old account still retains ownership. Would we have to transfer ownershipp of all that content as well?
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Hi All, Our annual educational site license for our consortium agreement (~3000 user seats) is renewing, and I'm faced with the task of re-issuing several hundred single-use license provisioning files for users across several institutions. Is there a way to automate this, or batch create them and send them out to a list of e-mail addresses? The MyESRI user interface only allows me to create one provisioning file at a time. Thanks! Joe Kopera Mass. Public Higher Educational Consortium
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(4.5 years later) I agree... this is a bit much needed functionality for those of us who managed consortium license agreements amongst educational institutions. I have 2000+ new provisioning files to issue in the next month, and ESRI currently only allows me to create one at a time.
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Thanks for scheduling the webinars and for making them available to those of us that can't make it-- a table of benefits / changes would be incredibly helpful, as with the new fiscal year the bean-counters are starting to look closely at cost-savings with software licensing, etc... for our campus. I'll likely be in touch with my ESRI contact about a preliminary quote under the new system for budgeting purposes.
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I am having the same issue. With all due respect Eric, the ArcGIS 10.1 help tells us to do just that: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//015w0000003s000000 After a good 20 minutes of searching after finding the above and not having it work, I did find instructions that clarify that an "LAS dataset" is in fact different from *.las files. Which is something the help could be clearer on in the get-go. It turns out you have to create an LAS dataset in Arc Catalog. And then add LAS files to it. It's buried in the ArcGIS help here: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/Adding_lidar_data_to_a_LAS_dataset/015w0000005r000000/
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