Best practices

Best practices can be defined as professional procedures that are accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective. We've talked about best practices throughout this book without even knowing it. Let's cover some specific best practices that can help your ArcGIS Enterprise system run smoothly and efficiently.

Credentials

We covered password strength at length in Chapter 6, Security. Let's talk more about service accounts and some best practices around them.

Service accounts

ArcGIS Server, Portal for ArcGIS, and Data Store for ArcGIS all run as Windows services, but what exactly is a service? A service is a program that runs in the background and executes with no user interaction. Most services are typically configured to start automatically with Windows. A service account is a Windows user account that exists solely to provide a security context for a Windows service and determines the service's ability to access local and network resources. In other words, the service...