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amount to no more than a few KB of data, as opposed to roughly 55 MB of data if the entire
User Profile is opened and closed over the network.
n Allow the user to use Dragon even if the network directory is unavailable. In that case, Dragon
opens the local copy of the Roaming User Profile.
n Give the administrator precise control over where users can put User Profiles. If the Roaming
feature is enabled, the administrator can specify whether or not to also allow users to browse to
any User Profile location; the default is not to allow browsing. This means that the administrator
can easily see how many User Profiles have been created and who created them. If the Roaming
feature is not enabled, users can browse to any location to which they have access and create
User Profiles there.
n If HTTP Roaming is configured, it can be used to provide username/password authentication
on User Profiles.
Hosting Master Roaming User Profiles
There are several methods for hosting your Master Roaming User Profiles:
n On a file server you connect to over a Mapped Drive
n On a file server that you connect to over a UNC (Universal Naming Convention) address
n On a web server that you connect to over HTTP (http://)
n On a secure web server that you connect to over SSL (https://)
Why the Master Roaming User Profiles should be in
shared directories
Nuance recommends placing the master Roaming User Profiles in a shared directory to make cer-
tain administrative tasks more efficient. These tasks include:
n Scheduling an Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer task that optimizes multiple User
Profiles
n Upgrading multiple User Profiles to a new major release of Dragon
n Keeping track of how many User Profiles have been created, which helps with licensing
compliance (note that Dragon is licensed per user, not per workstation)
It is possible, though not recommended, to place Roaming User Profiles in a non-shared, user-spe-
cific location such as the user’s home drive, provided every user’s home drive is mapped to the
same drive letter (this is because the Roaming User Profile location is an administrative setting
that is per-workstation, not per-user).
Using multiple Roaming User Profile locations
If you have a large number of Roaming User Profiles, you may want to divide them among mul-
tiple shared directories. This facilitates performing tasks such as scheduling the Acoustic and Lan-
guage Model Optimizer on a subset of User Profiles. You can choose how to divide your User
Profiles, for example:
n By department
n By alphabetical groupings (for example A through H, I through M, N through R, and S through
Z)
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