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I'm looking for a way to prevent an ArcGIS ModelBuilder tool from running if it's been published to ArcGIS Server. Or, even better, for a way to prevent the tool from being published to Server in the first place.

Ideally, I'd like to find a way to keep the tools from running without a license. This has been discussed in Copy protection via license file for ModelBuilder models? although no specific code is given. If licensing isn't possible, I'd like to keep these tools from being published to Server. Does anyone have ideas for Python coding (or a method directly in ModelBuilder) that could achieve this?

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  • Could you instead perhaps limit publishing rights to ArcGIS Server in the first place, thus avoiding it being published? – Chad Cooper May 20 '16 at 14:16
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    My company sells customized ModelBuilder tools and we don't have control over our clients' installations of ArcGIS Server. We'd like a programmatic way of limiting this in the tool itself. The closest suggestion I've found is using Python to detect if the tool is running on Server (http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/62722/can-arcpy-detect-whether-its-running-in-desktop-or-server), and then render the tool inoperable. This might suffice but we'd prefer to keep the tools from publishing to Server in the first place. – user66244 May 25 '16 at 15:26

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