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Table Of Contents

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About this guide
- Guide overview
  - Audience
- Additional resources
Chapter 1: Introduction
- About Nuance Management Center
- Physical architecture
Chapter 2: Installation checklists
- Checklist—Planning the server installation
- Checklist—Planning the client installation
Chapter 3: Preparing for your server installation
- Software requirements—Server
  - Application server and database server
  - NMC console
- Hardware requirements—Server
- Server installation prerequisites
  - Application server and database server
  - NMC console prerequisites
- Other considerations
- Obtaining required server software
- Opening required ports
Chapter 4: Installing the servers
- Installing SQL Server
- Installing Nuance Management Center
Chapter 5: Post-installation tasks
- Installing and binding the SSL certificate
- Verifying the NMS Platform service is running
  - Starting the NMS Platform service manually
- Configuring your network switch
- Logging in to the Nuance Management Center (NMC) console
- Determining your database backup method
Chapter 6: Preparing for your Active Directory single sign-on configuration
- Single sign-on overview
- Before you begin
- Creating an NMC console Administrator user for Active Directory
- Setting the Active Directory connection string
- Creating and configuring user accounts for single sign-on
  - Creating user accounts
  - Configuring user accounts
Chapter 7: Installing the Local Authenticator
- About the Local Authenticator
  - Local Authenticator logs
- Downloading the Local Authenticator
- Creating organization tokens
- Installing and binding the SSL certificate
- Installing the Local Authenticator
- Editing the configuration file
- Starting the Local Authenticator service
Chapter 8: Preparing for your Dragon Group client installation
- Software and hardware requirements—Client
  - Dragon Group hardware recommendations
  - Supported Virtual Desktop infrastructure applications
- Required skills for installing Dragon Group
- Dragon File Structure
  - Windows 7, Windows 8.x, and Windows 10
  - Accessing program files
- Assigning access
  - Assigning permissions
- Configuring client workstations
Chapter 9: Installing the Dragon Group client
Chapter 10: Installing the Dragon client with Settings
- Overview—Installing the Dragon client with initial settings
- Installing the same Dragon configuration on multiple computers
- Performing an administrative installation with a batch file
  - Understanding the script in admininstall.bat
  - Modifying admininstall.bat
- Command Line installation with msiexec.exe
  - Installing the same configuration on additional computer(s)
Chapter 11: Configuring the Dragon client for NMS
- Associating Dragon clients with the NMC server or Local Authenticator
- Converting from Stand-Alone to NMS mode
Chapter 12: Scheduling Optimization Tasks
- Using Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer and Scheduler tools
Chapter 13: Working with Custom Commands
- Using the Convert XML to DAT Tool
- Using the MyCommands Protection Utility
Chapter 14: Upgrading the Dragon client
- Preparing to upgrade Dragon
- Upgrading Roaming User Profiles
  - Before you upgrade
  - After upgrading Roaming user profiles
- Upgrading Your Dragon installation from the Command Line
- Upgrading with msiexec.exe
- Upgrading user profiles
  - Running the Upgrade User Profiles Wizard
  - Importing custom words and commands
Chapter 15: Managing Logs and Errors
- Dragon logs
  - Dragon client logs
  - Usability logs (Stand-Alone mode only)
- Handling Dragon error messages
- Accessing the Dragon Knowledge Database
Chapter 16: Using Dragon over a remote desktop connection
- Use Dragon through a remote desktop connection
- Remote desktop connection support
  - Support for dictation sources over a remote desktop connection
  - System Requirements for using Dragon through a remote desktop connection
- Installing Dragon on the server and the client
- Configuring the Windows server
- Configuring Windows Server 2008 R2
- Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 Part 1
- Configuring Windows 7 Ultimate Server
- Configuring the Dragon clients
  - User Profiles and using Dragon through a Remote Desktop session
Appendix A: Options for MSI Installations
- MSI options for Dragon installations
  - Sample command lines
- Feature variables to set through the ADDLOCAL or ADVERTISE properties
  - Speech options
- MSI options for scheduled tasks
- Editing Miscellaneous and Scheduled Task settings in nsdefaults.ini
- Extracting MSI/MST Files from the Dragon setup.exe
Appendix B: Stand-Alone Mode Installation Options
- Setting Roaming user profile options
- Understanding Roaming user settings in nsdefaults.ini and roamingdef.ini
  - nsdefaults.ini settings
  - roamingdef.ini options
- Installing a Roaming user profile configuration on additional computers
Appendix C: Database backups
- About database backups
- Disabling automatic database backups

Chapter 10: Installing the Dragon client with Settings

For an administrative installation, the administrator creates an image of the installation program on the server

and then configures the server to automatically push the application onto the client systems. You can also

configure network installations to modify, repair, or remove an existing installation.

Support for SMS and Windows Server with Active Directory

Systems Management Server (SMS) provides a mechanism for pushing application installations out from the

server to client systems. SMS supports using the Windows Installer (MSI) to push installations on clients

using Windows 7, 8 or 10. SMS requires that a client application be installed on all client computers.

Active Directory is a feature of Windows Server 2008 and 2012. The Group Policy component of Active

Directory includes a Software Installation snap-in that lets an administrator create a network installation.

Administrators can use this feature to install software onto Windows 7, 8 and 10 clients.

Dragon supports the Active Directory Assign to Computers installation option. This option successfully

installs the software when the computer is restarted. Administrators can delay installation on Windows

clients by enabling logon optimization for group policy; for this type of installation, you can view an entry for

the installation in the event log after the first restart. The installation is then performed on the second restart.

The installation takes place silently, and the software is installed for all users on the computer. When you

perform a silent installation of Dragon, the installation process does not display any messages. To view

installation messages, administrators should view the setup log.