Register your data with ArcGIS Server using ArcGIS Pro—ArcGIS Server

You can register data directories and databases with an ArcGIS Server site from ArcGIS Pro. Data registration provides the server with a list of locations for your web services' source data. Data registration helps you validate that your services will reference data locations known and approved by the server administrator.

Registering your data directories does not grant the ArcGIS Server account permissions to access your data. You need to give the ArcGIS Server account at least read permissions to any folder that you register. If you register a database (including enterprise or workgroup geodatabases), the type of permissions you need to grant depends on the type of database, the authentication method you use to connect, and what the connecting user needs to do with the data. See Make your data accessible to ArcGIS Server to learn more about the scenarios where you need to apply permissions.

Follow the steps in the sections below based on what you want to register with the ArcGIS Server site.

Register a database

You can register databases that contain enterprise or workgroup geodatabases and databases that do not. See Data sources for ArcGIS Server for information on the registration scenarios you can use for each.

For more information on the requirements for registering a database, see the topic specific to your database management system in the list below. Note that if the database does not contain a geodatabase, it cannot be registered as a GIS Server site's managed database.

Register a database from ArcGIS Pro

Use the Manage registered data stores pane to register databases and enterprise geodatabases from ArcGIS Pro.

Beginning with ArcGIS Pro 2.5, the databases and enterprise geodatabases you register with a federated server in the Manage registered data stores pane automatically have a data store item created in the portal.

Beginning with ArcGIS Pro 2.9, you can register cloud data warehouses with the hosting server in the Manage registered data stores pane.

See Manage registered data stores in the ArcGIS Pro help for instructions and more information.

Register a folder

You can register a local file directory or shared directory that contains GIS resources and data, such as shapefiles and file geodatabases. When you register a directory, all subdirectories under the folder you specify are also registered with the ArcGIS Server site.

Register a folder from ArcGIS Pro

Use the Manage registered data stores pane to register a folder from ArcGIS Pro. Beginning with ArcGIS Pro 2.5, the folders you register with a federated server in the Manage registered data stores pane automatically have a data store item created in the portal. See Manage registered data stores in the ArcGIS Pro help for instructions.

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