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Chapter 4: Upgrading Dragon
the users in your network to run Dragon 9.x or 10.x while you plan your upgrade.
n Plan to upgrade the master Roaming User Profiles at a time when they are not being opened by
end users, 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 you upgrade your Master Roaming User
Profiles on a drive on a computer where Dragon 11 or greater is locally installed. Nuance does
not recommend that you upgrade your Master Roaming User Profiles across a network to either
a mapped drive or UNCpath; upgrading over a network will take an undetermined length of
time. In addition, the User Profile Upgrade Wizard does not support upgrading User Profiles over
an HTTPconnection.
Step 1: Preparing to upgrade Roaming User Profiles
To upgrade your Master Roaming User Profiles from a previous version of Dragon, Nuance rec-
ommends that you install Dragon 11 or greater directly on the network computer where the
Dragon 9.x or 10.x Master Roaming User Profiles are located and upgrade those Master Roaming
User Profiles directly to Dragon 11 or greater Master Roaming User Profiles.
If you are unable to install Dragon where your Dragon 9.x or 10.x Master Roaming User Profiles
are located, Nuance recommends that you:
1. Install Dragon 11 or greater on a separate computer where you will perform the upgrades.
2. Copy the Dragon 9.x or 10.x Master Roaming User Profiles from their network location to the
computer where Dragon 11 or greater is installed.
3. Upgrade the Dragon 9.x or 10.x Master Roaming User Profiles on the computer where Dragon
11 or greater is installed.
4. Copy the upgraded Dragon 11 or greater Master Roaming User Profiles to a network accessible
directory on the original network location.
For more information, see Preparing to upgrade Roaming User Profiles.
Step 2: Upgrading the User Profiles
As administrator you must separately upgrade the master Roaming User Profiles to Dragon 11 or
greater using the Dragon 11 or greater
User Profile Upgrade Wizard
.
After you upgrade the Dragon 9.x or 10.x Master Roaming User Profiles, you can then proceed to
upgrade end-user systems that deploy the Roaming feature.
For more information, see Upgrading master Roaming User Profiles
Step 3: Upgrade the end-user systems
After you have upgraded the master Roaming User Profiles, you can then proceed to upgrade end-
user systems that deploy the Roaming feature.
Note: You can only upgrade from Dragon 9.x or greater to Dragon 11.5. Upgrading from Dragon
8.x or earlier to Dragon 11.5 is not supported.
For more information:
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