Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Federation

Federation is a process whereby more tightly integrating ArcGIS Server with Portal, we can delegate ArcGIS Server security to Portal, effectively eliminating ArcGIS Server-level based security and replacing it with Portal's sharing model. That's right; when you federate ArcGIS Server with Portal, all your security for services is handled as sharing in Portal. As a matter of fact, with a federated ArcGIS Server instance, when you publish a service, it is shared with the portal and shows up in the My Content folder of the publishing user's account!

By default, all published services on a federated ArcGIS Server are not shared by default. Note that this is the opposite to a standard ArcGIS Server site where all services published ...