Migration from ArcGIS Desktop 9.0 to 9.1
Notes: In case they help others.
Uninstall – reinstall is relatively simple, as promised. Two problems arose:
- License Expiration: The Tracking Analyst (Tracking) license has expired.
The suggested “uncheck License Timeout Warning on the Miscellaneous tab in AdvancedArcMapSettings.exe” (in C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Utilities\) successfully stopped that error arising. - The GxCatalog.GetObjectFromFullName method crashed my VB6 program for one particular SDE table
This was standardly named “Database Connections\Connection to SERVER.sde\sde.sde.rogueTable”. It was a hard crash – didn’t allow the program to catch the error – unfriendly. Deleting this table (or rather renaming it) from ArcCatalog got the program working again. This process had to be repeated for each user?
We had previously installed
- ArcSDE 9.1 (86 MB) and it was working with ArcGIS Desktop 9.0, but we encountered the known issue of Acrobat Reader 7.0.0 with exported pdf files.
We upgraded to v9.1
- ArcGIS Desktop (929MB) on the server and a development machine.
- Desktop Developer Kit (366 MB) was also installed on the development machine, but to save space
- Desktop Tutorial Data (~900 MB) and
- Crystal Reports for ESRI (~700 MB) were not installed. Again, to save space, the
- ESRI Software Documentation Library (395 MB) was copied onto a separate PC, as was
- ArcReader (206 MB).
- ArcInfo Workstation for Windows (718 MB) was installed on the development machine in case we ever need to run legacy AML programs.
We have not yet installed
- ArcIMS. We may install this with v9.2 – once the Service Pack comes out.