11.5

Chapter 6: Configuring and using the Roaming feature and Roaming User Profiles
Estimating Network traffic caused by
synchronization
The following table explains how and when individual files are copied or updated to the master
Roaming User Profile or to the local cache when the Master and Local Roaming User Profiles are
synchronized and how much data is transferred in the process.
In addition, this table which option controls whether the data is transferred. For more information
on what options effect what data gets synchronized between the Master and Local Roaming User
Profile, see Setting/selecting Roaming User Profile options.
The estimates of the data transferred across the network is for a single Roaming User Profile.
Files copied to the Master
Roaming User Profile
Transfer Direction
& Data Amount
Files copied to the
Local Roaming User
Profile
Administrative
Setting to enable
for Transfer
Acoustic files: *.user
and *.sig
User Action: Dic-
tation, Audio Setup
Transfer time: When
the User Profile is
saved
35 MB
<---->
Transfer
time: Copied
if server ver-
sion is dif-
ferent from
client version
n Always copy acous-
tic information to
network
n Save Acoustic infor-
mation
Vocabulary files:
*.voc
User Action: Dic-
tation, Learn from spe-
cific documents, Learn
from sent e-mails,
Vocabulary Optimizer.
Transfer time: Copied
only after the vocab-
ulary files for the user
have been modified
with information from
Learn from specific doc-
uments, Learn from
sent e-mails, and the
Vocabulary Optimizer.
Copy only happens
after saving or closing a
User Profile.
18 MB
<---->
Transfer
time: Copied
if server ver-
sion is dif-
ferent from
client version
Access net-
work at user
profile
open/close
only
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