ArcGIS Server First Experience

My first hands on Experience with ArcGIS Server was at the NEARC Conference where we had a little hands on training excercise. It was pretty basic, we simply authored a map in ArcMap and used ArcCatalog to setup a connection to our webserver then published the map to the web. It was pretty straighforward and I felt right at home having used a frontend to publish maps to the web the past two years. I felt that in some ways that ArcGIS Server provided a nice frontend to publish your maps to the web and that the maps were also quite fast once they were up.  I was also quite excited about all the tools especially the editing tools that one could add provided you had the right license. My first impression after my hands on have been positive and now my hand has been itching to install the software and have a bit of fun.  Anyway, Dealy Geomatics has written up a “Hands-on” post about their introduction to ArcGIS Server . Check it out. I think some great points were made there. For a second pass ArcGIS server is much improved and I’m hoping that it will get even better as time goes on.