Following an upgrade, consider the following points to ensure your organization runs smoothly:
- Due to changes in the underlying backup store components, you must create a new backup store after you upgrade to 11.4. If you do not create a new backup store and need to register a backup store using a preexisting persistent volume, you will not be able to access the backups of the previous version of your organization. If needed, the old backup store can be used to revert your organization to the earlier version.
- Once an upgrade has been validated, new backups should be stored in the newly registered backup store, that is, the one that has been created at the latest software release. You can unregister and delete the old backup store and the persistent volume to recover resources in the cluster. You must also update backup schedules accordingly to ensure they're referencing the newly registered backup store.
- As of 11.4, the Editor, GIS Professional Standard, and GIS Professional Advanced user type names have changed to Contributor, Professional, and Professional Plus, respectively. You may notice this update when importing a new Portal for ArcGIS license file. If a member's user type is no longer available after upgrading, you must assign them a different user type. For a list of user types available in 11.4, see User types.
- After upgrading, some user types may include additional apps that were previously available only as add-on licenses. If an app is included with a member's assigned user type, you don't need to assign the member an add-on license for that app. See An introduction to licensing apps to learn more about apps and the user types that include them.
- When one or more add-on licenses assigned to members are included with their user types after upgrading, you will see a notice on the Overview tab of the organization page stating that some members have licenses assigned twice. You can unassign duplicate add-on licenses from all applicable members to free up those licenses.
- As of 11.4, ArcGIS License Manager is no longer required to enable named user licensing for ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Pro extensions, and ArcGIS Drone2Map.
- If you configured routing services by publishing routing services using your network dataset, it is recommended that you reconfigure your routing services after an upgrade to use the latest capabilities. To republish routing services using your network dataset, follow the steps below:
- Sign in as a default administrator or custom role with the appropriate privileges to manage organization settings.
- At the top of the site, click Organization and click Settings.
- Click Utility services on the left side of the page.
- Click Directions and Routing on the right side of the page.
- Click the Update routing services button and choose A network dataset that I'd like to publish.
- Follow the steps in Configure routing services to configure routing services using your network dataset.
If you encounter issues following an upgrade, review tips for troubleshooting.