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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

Nuance Management Center Server Installation and Client Configuration Guide

Guide overview

The Server Installation and Client Configuration Guide provides the following:

l Installation and configuration instructions for on-premise Nuance Management Center (NMC)

servers.

l Configuration instructions for single sign-on authentication.

l Installation, configuration, and upgrade instructions for Dragon Group clients.

This guide contains installation and configuration instructions for both clients using their own on-premise

NMC server and clients using Nuance's hosted NMC server in the cloud. Use the following table to determine

the chapters that are applicable to you:

NMC servertype Applicable chapters

On-premise

1-6, 8-16, Appendix A, B, and C

Nuance-hosted 6-16, Appendix A and B

Audience

This guide is intended for IT administrators, database administrators, and Dragon administrators whose

responsibility is to perform the following:

l Install and configure an on-premise NMC server.

l Set up and manage single sign-on user authentication.

l Install and manage a SQL Server database.

l Install Dragon clients and configure them through the Nuance Management Center (NMC) console.

This guide assumes you have experience in hardware configuration, software installation, database

management, and networking.