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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

Upgrading Your Dragon installation from the Command

Line

There are two command line upgrade scenarios:

l Major Upgrade—Upgrading to a new edition or version of Dragon Group.

l Minor Upgrade—Upgrading to a higher point release within the same edition and version of Dragon.

Minor upgrades do not support the silent upgrade option. When you run setup.exe to install a minor upgrade,

setup.exe can detect when a previous version of Dragon exists on a target computer. When it detects a

previous version, setup.exe runs the rest of your installation in minor upgrade mode, automatically

overwriting older files with newer files and adding any missing files.

A silent installation of Dragon does not display any messages. Check the setup log for any installation

messages or errors.

Upgrading with settings

Although the upgrade does not migrate forward the configuration or Roaming user profile settings from the

earlier version, you can install with your previous settings using one of the following methods:

Reuse the nsdefaults.ini and (Stand-Alone users only) roamingdef.ini files you used when you

first installed Dragon Group.

l Perform an initial installation of the new version of Dragon on a single computer (see “Installation

Using the Dragon Command Line” on page 1) and establish the configuration you want to use by

calling natspeak.exe on the command line (see “Natspeak.exe Command Line Options” on page 1).

Administrators cannot upgrade user profiles during the command line installation.

For Roaming user profiles, upgrade the profiles in the Master Roaming user profile directory before you

upgrade the Dragon clients (see “Upgrading Roaming User Profiles” on page 84). Upgraded Roaming user

profiles become available as soon as you update Dragon on the client computers.

For non-Roaming user profiles, run the User Profile Upgrade Wizard after installation completes. See

“Upgrading user profiles” on page 90 for details on the User Profile Upgrade Wizard.

Upgrading from the command line

Before you begin your upgrade:

l Have the Dragon serial number available. If you are installing or upgrading Dragon on multiple

networked computers, have the group serial number available.

l Ensure all mapped drives you plan to use are mapped on each client computer where you are

distributing the installation.

l Install any pending Windows updates on clients and restart as needed.

Copy any .ini files you want apply to your installation to a central location so you can access them

later.

Using setup.exe for silent upgrades

When you use the command line, you must use the REINSTALL=ALL option and set REINSTALLMODE to the

sub-options you want to reinstall, generally REINSTALLMODE=vamus. If you did not originally install in the