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Chapter 2: Preparing to install Dragon
Assigning access
To ensure that your Dragon network components can communicate with each other and that the
network can function properly, you must assign permissions to all directories and access rights to
administrator and user accounts on servers and clients as indicated below.
Location or registry key
Permissions level or type of
access rights
Users affected
Roaming user profiles folder
(Optional)
Full read/write/modify
permissions
Windows user accounts for all
users dictating on Dragon
clients
C:\ProgramData\Nuance
folder and all sub-folders
Full read/write/modify
permissions
Windows user accounts for all
users dictating on Dragon
clients
C:\Users\<Windows User
ID>\AppData\
folder and all sub-folders
Full read/write/modify
permissions
HKEY_LOCAL_
MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Nuance
Rights to update the registry to
read/write to these keys
Windows accounts used on
workstations running the
Dragon client
HKEY_CURRENT_
USER\SOFTWARE\Nuance
Assigning permissions for Roaming users
To ensure each dictating user has appropriate access to his or her user profile, you must give full
read/write/modify permissions to all files and directories where the Roaming user profiles are located,
even through http or https connections. This level of access ensures that when the user dictates,
Dragon can interact with the Roaming user profiles effectively.
Each Windows user account that logs in to the Dragon client workstation should also have
read/write/modify access to the Roaming user profiles, since the Dragon client frequently modifies
these profiles.
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