ArcGIS Enterprise 11 includes the biggest update to ArcGIS Server in years. Find out about the under-hood-changes that make the move to Enterprise 11 an extra-big and extra-rewarding step. As well as covering key upgrade considerations, we introduced the new options that Enterprise 11 brings. There are mesmerising cartography tools in the Map Viewer and new options in Scene Viewer. For sharing your maps, there are new features in ArcGIS Instant Apps, ArcGIS Dashboards and ArcGIS Experience Builder. Moreover, if you are looking to benefit from a cloud native architecture, ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes has also been updated. Watch this presentation to find out more.
Speakers: Chris Barker, Martine Cameron
Hi everyone,  Thanks for coming to the session on turning up your ArcGIS Enterprise to 11. My name’s Chris Barker ,I’m a Senior Consultant in Professional Services and I’m joined by my colleague Martine.  Hi everyone, my name is Martine Cameron and I’m a Technical Support Analyst here at Esri UK.
So in today’s session, we’re going to be taking a whistle stop tour of some of  the new features that are available with ArcGIS Enterprise 11, particularly 11.1 with some extras on upgrade considerations and a little bit on ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes. Â
But before we jump in it’s important to note that ArcGIS Enterprise 11.1 is now available and is the  first major release or long-term support release of the 11 iteration. This should be the target version for all upgrades and many of the features that we talk about today are exclusive to 11.1. Â
Firstly, Chris is going to take us through some of the upgrade considerations for ArcGIS Enterprise 11.  Do Chris over to you. Thanks Martine. A major change in version 11 is the removal of the ArcMap Runtine and Python 2.
This means that any service or geoprocessing tool that you publish from ArcMap will no longer run in ArcGIS Enterprise 11 until it’s migrated to the ArcGIS Pro Runtime. It also means you’ll no longer be able to publish any new services to ArcGIS Enterprise from ArcMap.
It’s important to identify these services ahead of time and there are tools available in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.1 to help you identify and migrate services using the ArcMap Runtime.  If you are not already on version 10.9.1, we recommend upgrading to this version first to Â
Give you access to all the tools available for a smooth transition to Enterprise 11. Furthermore, any geoprocessing tools that are written in Python 2 will need to be updated to use Python 3.  Any scripts that have been written in Python 2 will need to be updated manually Â
But there are tools available in ArcGIS Pro to help you with this. There are some important changes to the system requirements at version 11 as well which may  impact your upgrade. Both Windows Server 2012 and Red Hat 7 support has been dropped
So if you’re on either of these operating systems you won’t be able to upgrade directly to Enterprise 11. The ArcGIS Enterprise SDK has also moved to .NET 6  which impacts anyone using server objects extensions or interceptors.  There are resources available online to help you update your existing SOEs and SOIs to .NET 6.
And for Portal users, perhaps the biggest change at version 11 is the retirement or  deprecation of several app templates. Several configurable app templates  have been retired or replaced with new templates in the ArcGIS Instant Apps range. There’s a full list of retired configurable app templates available online Â
But any apps using these templates will no longer be visible or viewable at Enterprise 11.  Some classic app templates like Classic StoryMaps and Classic Dashboards have also been retired at version 11. These apps will continue to be usable at version 11 but they will no longer Â
Be editable and won’t be supported. Several Esri raster basemaps  have also been moved into mature support at version 11 and won’t be updated. We recommend moving to Esri Vector Tile basemaps to take advantage of the latest map styles and updates. Â
And it’s also worth mentioning that Web AppBuilder was deprecated as of February this year.  It’s still going to be a part of Enterprise for a long time to come, but we recommend  familiarising yourself with alternatives like Experience Builder. We will share some resources at Â
The end of the session but if you have any questions come and talk to us afterwards.  Now I’m going to hand over to Martine who’s going to take you through what’s new in the map viewer. Thanks Chris. So you’ve recently upgraded or you’ve deployed a fresh install of ArcGIS Enterprise 11.1,Â
What are some of the new things that you can expect to see with the map viewer?  Well since the map viewer has been around since the 10.8.1 release, it’s now the default map  viewer for ArcGIS Enterprise 11.x and harnesses JavaScript 4 so that it has a more Â
Intuitive design and it has responsive mapping with real-time updates to your map as you work.  One of the new things that we like to show today is that the map viewer now has  the native ability to add a GeoJSON layer directly to your map from a web URL. Â
So you can see here I’m adding a URL for a GeoJSON layer and it is showing some  cycle-free traffic rates around Belfast and see how quickly that was added into my map.  And I’ve got a few other layers on my map here, as I said that layer I just added was a cycle route.Â
This is the Belfast City Centre Cycle map and as well as some Belfast City Centre trees. So I just want to quickly turn off my GeoJSON layer and select on trees. Now I’ve got it symbolised in Â
Such a way that it sort of looks a bit like tree coverage but I can see that there’s quite a lot  of data on my map and it would be great if I could aggregate this to make it a little bit Â
More readable. So jumping over to the aggregation options, we can see here that I have a few more  options available to me than what was available in the 10.9.1 release. We now have binning as an option and additionally depending on the data that you have you may have charts available as well.
So I’m going to turn on the binning option and as we can see the map here will automatically create  bins for me. Clicking on options I can quickly change my bin size, edit the fields and create  labels for it as well as configuring pop-ups. The initial pop-up is going to configure Â
Just the aggregate count and so this is the number of trees in that bin and but my pop-ups can also  be the predominant values of different fields that may be non-numerical and within my data.
This takes me on to the next new thing that I’d like to show today. We can now create charts within our pop-ups.  So I’m going to turn off my aggregation just temporarily and click on the pop-up for one of my trees.Â
Now you can see I have quite a bit of data here but it’d be great if I could create a chart, right? So clicking on pop-ups, selecting add content, I now have the chart option available.  I’m going to select this and you can see I have bar chart, line chart and pie chart.
Selecting different fields, I’m going to scroll down to the bottom where I have disease spread for June  2022 and January 2023. And as you can see in my pop-up it is automatically created me a bar chart.  I can also change this very quickly to a line chart.
Now depending on the data that you have you might want to show a pie chart as well and you can get a little bit more creative by using Arcade scripts and so that you can create the same sort of bar charts,
Line charts, pie charts within your pop-ups for non-numerical values or fields. And that’s all I really have time for today so  I’m going to pass you over to Chris now who’s going to take you through some Experience Builder.  Thanks Martine. So as I said earlier, Web AppBuilder has been deprecated and a great Â
Alternative is Experience Builder which has seen a huge number of updates in version 11.  You can now host your own custom widgets in the Portal and add them to your own applications.  To show this off, I’ve taken the What Three Words widget available on GitHub Â
And I’ve hosted this on my own website. I can take the Manifest URL and add a new item into my Portal.  I can use the new Experience Builder widget option to add this widget directly into my content  and then share this content across my organisation.
I can access this widget from the custom widget section with an Experience Builder  and then I can customise the look and feel of  this widget as I can any other out of the box widget in Experience Builder. So let’s take a look at this working in my finished Experience. Â
Every time I click on the map, I receive a precise three-word location alongside the latitude and  longitude for the point. In the background, this is using the What Three Words locator  that I’ve added to ArcGIS Enterprise and can be used for free using the What Three Words API. Â
There have been some other great updates at version 11, including the new editor widget which  can be used to edit both 2D and 3D data. We’re currently looking at the centre of St Albans with restaurants and cafes from OpenStreetMap shown on the map.
I can see that there’s a really nice bar missing so I can use the editor widget to add this bar called The Snug directly to my map. There have also been some great updates in the 3D space.  On the left, we can see this 3D view of the Esri UK offices in Aylesbury. Â
This floor aware layer can now be explored using the new floor filter widget so I can now start to explore and interact with the floorplan of Millennium House. And on the right, we have this absolutely stunning 3D scene of Edinburgh Castle  using Bluesky Metro Vista data available in the ArcGIS Marketplace.
At version 11, there’s a new 3D toolbox that I can use to adjust the sun angle to analyse the impact of shadow across my scene. And I can also do direct line of sight analysis against 3D objects in my scene.  So I can start to analyse what’s visible from different viewpoints around Edinburgh Castle.
I’m now going to hand back to Martine who’s going to take you through what’s new in webhooks. So we’re always looking for ways to improve our workflows and make them more efficient especially through automation. And one way that Esri has improved this for system administrators
Is by creating a way for you to utilise webhooks within your ArcGIS Enterprise environment.  But for the uninitiated what exactly is a webhook? A webhook is an ehttp request that is triggered by a source system or an event in a source system
And it’s sent to a destination system and normally this is with a payload of data. Basically what it means is that it  provides a way for one system to talk to another and trigger an event whenever an action occurs. Â
So what I want to do today is take you through how to set this up. Jumping over to my Portal sharing REST endpoints, I’m going to click on Portals. I’m currently signed in as an administrator here. Clicking on self and scrolling down to the very bottom, I’m going to child resources Â
And selecting webhooks. As you can see here, I already have a webhook configured but for the  purposes of the demo I’m going to click on create webhook. I am going to give it a meaningful name.  And now I need a payload URL. This is where the payload of information from ArcGIS Enterprise is Â
Going to be sent to and then where an action is going to occur for something to either send an  email or text or maybe send something into your slack chat. For this I am going to use integromat. Â
Now again you can see I’ve already got a scenario configured but I’m going to create a new one just  for the purposes of the demo. Clicking on the plus and I’m going to search webhooks. And then selecting custom webhook then clicking on add  and again I’m going to give it a meaningful name.
Now you can see it’s provided me with a URL. This is my payload URL so I’m going to copy  this to my clipboard and paste it in. Secret is basically if you want to set up authentication  for your webhook configuration properties are showing the deactivation policy
I.e. how many times it can feel and before the web hook will be deactivated and you can look at the logs. The last thing that I need to configure though is the event triggers.  So event trigger today that I’m going to configure is anytime an item is deleted from my organisation Â
But just to be clear event triggers can be for almost anything with ArcGIS Enterprise and there is  online documentation for what all the event triggers are and but if I wanted to give an  example you could set it up to see whenever something is shared publicly or an item Â
Has changed ownership. And it can be for very specific items so it can go right down to the  the item ID and but it can be for all items in your organisation, groups, users, everything.  So I’m going to jump back over to my already configured webhook.
You can see here that it is doing exactly what I was going to set it up to do. It’s tracking for items that have been deleted in my organisation. And if I go into my already configured scenario in integromat, and then open up here, you can see that it’s being configured with SendGrid so Â
It’s going to send me an email whenever an item is deleted from my organisation.  And you can also see here that I’ve got notifications down the side to say that  something was deleted. So I’m going to quickly take a look at my emails and as Â
You can see two items have been removed from the organisation as I’ve been speaking to you and now three.  I can see the item ID come through and I can see that’s been deleted by my colleague  Chris here and I can see the time and date when it was deleted.
Again your payload URL can bring through more information than that if you want it to bring through even what the item  is called or something. It can do that as well, it’s just what I’ve configured here today.
So with that, I’m going to pass you back over to Chris now to take you through ArcGIS Dashboards. Thanks Martine. So as I mentioned earlier Classic Dashboards have been retired at  version 11 and replaced with ArcGIS Dashboards which bring a huge range of new functionality. Â
In my opinion, one of the biggest updates might seem like one of the smallest but it’s a huge update to the user experience. The previous versions of ArcGIS Enterprise had no control  over where new elements were added to the layout. At version 11, you can now choose where to dock Â
New features. Let’s take a look at this by adding another couple of new elements to my dashboard.  When I click to add an element and presented with a set of docking points around existing  features in my layout. I can add a new indicator widget to the right-hand side of my mapÂ
And when this is configured I can then add a new element and choose to add it anywhere else within my dashboard. For example, I can add it directly underneath my new indicator widget. So let’s take a look at some other great updates in this dashboard I put together Â
Exploring Santander cycle stations across London, showing bike availability and an average  e-bike charge across the capital. The first update I want to highlight is the follow feature action.  I’m currently monitoring a set of bikes that are moving around London. Â
When I click on one of these bikes the map immediately pans to the bike’s current location.  As the bike moves along the road the map maintains its view on the bike,  and the surrounding elements update as I focus in on the single feature. Â
This enables me to track assets across the map, giving me a real situational awareness. The second update I want to highlight is the new table widget which gives me direct  access to the data that I see on the map and updates as filters and actions are applied.
It can also be configured to use advanced form formatting through Arcade functions.  The table widget can also be configured to use another great addition to Enterprise 11. The ability to download data. This can be configured against any data-driven element in a dashboard, Â
And respects all filters and actions applied. Users can simply navigate to the information they’re  interested in the dashboard and then download the data directly to a CSV from the browser. And finally another great update of version 11 is the reset button.  Users can pan around the map and apply filters to the dashboard Â
And then simply hit the reset button to go back to the dashboard’s default view.  And with that I’m going to hand back to Martine who’s going to give you an overview  of what’s new in ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes. Thanks Chris. So ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes is a game-changing new deployment type.
As our customers you’re deploying bigger and more complex deployments than ever before to power your changing demand and workflows. And this is where ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes can help. It is cloud native with microservices in its architecture to provide inherent high availability without any additional configuration required.
Utilising containerisation technologies such as docker which provide blueprints for all of the  components of your ArcGIS Enterprise environment, Kubernetes then orchestrates or manages the  deployment for you to help scale it up and down to meet differing demands, but also be able to detect Â
When you’ve got an unhealthy service and also to be able to replace them whenever they’re unhealthy.  It makes this deployment type the most robust and resilient that we’ve ever had.  The first big update to ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes is that it is now available Â
In general availability, meaning that you don’t need an Enterprise License Agreement for it.  With the 11.x release it now supports disconnected environments so this is critical  for a lot of our customers who need a completely secure air gapped environment. Â
And we also have additional update support for supported data sources including Oracle and SAP HANA. And alongside this, the majority of the updates that we’ve shown you here today  during our demo are available with the ArcGIS Enterprise on Kubernetes 11.x release.
So we really took a look at a lot of things today and we didn’t have a lot of time to deep dive and  we’re only really scratching the surface of what’s available with this new release.
Some of the other great features we know that you’ll love is being able to search with related terms,  the creation of member categories for helping manage your organisation, operational  health scripts and Deep Learning Studio. There’s just so many things.
So if there’s anything you’ve seen here today or anything on this slide you’d like to chat to us about  afterwards please do feel free to chat to me or Chris or find the Enterprise stand on floor five. So we covered a lot in the last 20 minutes, from what to consider for Â
Upgrading to Enterprise 11 to what’s new in Experienced Builder, webhooks and Dashboards.  I’m sure you can agree there are a lot of great new updates and features available in Enterprise 11.  11.1 is available now and we recommend updating to this version for long-term support. Â
However, it is important to prepare for this upgrade. Understand the content you use and  your organisational workflows and how these may be impacted by an upgrade to Enterprise 11.  We’ll leave you with some useful resources but as Martine said if you have any questions come and talk to us afterwards or head to Â
The Enterprise stand downstairs. Thank you very much and enjoy the rest of your day. [Applause]