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Dragon Administrator Guide version 11.5
Upgrading Roaming User
Profiles:Overview
This section describes how to upgrade Roaming User Profiles from Dragon NaturallySpeaking or
Dragon Medical 9.x or 10.x to Dragon 11 or greater .
Since the Local Roaming User Profile is a copy of a subset of the user data taken from the master
Roaming User Profile, an administrator cannot directly upgrade the Local Roaming User Profile
when they upgrade the local Dragon installation from Dragon 9.x or 10.x to Dragon 11 or greater .
See "Upgrading User Profiles to Dragon 11 or greater " in Dragon - What's New for administrators
for more information.
Notes:
n Upgrading a set of Dragon 9.x or 10.x master Roaming User Profiles to Dragon 11 or greater
leaves the Dragon 9.x or 10.x master Roaming User Profiles unchanged. Leaving the Dragon 9.x
or 10.x files intact allows the users in the network to run Dragon 9.x or 10.x while the
administrator plans the upgrade.
n You can upgrade from a variety of Dragon products to Dragon 11 or greater . If you have
custom vocabularies from other versions or editions of Dragon, you must recreate the custom
vocabularies in Dragon Medical 11 or greater . See 'Upgrading to Dragon 11 or greater ' in What
you should know before upgrading from a previous version for details.
n Plan to upgrade the master Roaming User Profiles at a time when User Profiles are not in use,
for example during the night or on a weekend.
n Even though the Dragon 11 or greater User Profile Upgrade Wizard supports both mapped drives
and UNC paths, Nuance strongly recommends that administrators upgrade the Master Roaming
User Profiles on a drive on a computer where Dragon 11 or greater is locally installed. Nuance
does not recommend that administrators upgrade the Master Roaming User Profiles across a
network to either a mapped drive or UNCpath; upgrading over a network will take a
undetermined length of time. In addition, the User Profile Upgrade Wizard does not support
upgrading User Profiles over an HTTPconnection.
n If upgrading from Dragon version 8.x or earlier to Dragon 11 or greater , version 8.x or earlier
custom words and commands can be re-used in Dragon 11 or greater :
1. In Dragon 8.x or earlier, export the custom words and commands
2. In Dragon 11 or greater , create a new User Profile
3. In Dragon 11 or greater , import the custom words and commands
See the Dragon Help for information on exporting and importing custom words and
commands.
Step 1: Preparing to upgrade Roaming User Profiles
To upgrade Master Roaming User Profiles from a previous version of Dragon, Nuance rec-
ommends that an administrator install Dragon 11 or greater directly on the network computer
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