For any installation of Dragon, you must first determine where on the network the Master Roaming User Profiles should be located.
Dragon lets you store your Master Roaming User Profiles on:
n Any networked computer.
You are not strictly required to store Master Roaming User Profiles on a server. Any shared location accessible to other computers on the network is a perfectly acceptable place to store Master Roaming User Profiles.
n A Windows file server n A web server (HTTP)
n A secure web server running SSL (HTTPS)
Note: The location(s) you pick must be accessible to all computers where users will dictate with a Roaming User Profile. Each location must have adequate storage space for Roaming User Profiles. For more information, see Storage space required for User Profiles.
What to consider for the Master Roaming User Profile location
To set up a location for the Master Roaming User Profiles, you should first determine:
n The kind of network file server on which you want to store your Master Roaming User Profiles. Make sure it has enough storage space. Each location you pick must be accessible to all computers where your users will dictate with Roaming User Profiles. You can create multiple network storage locations.
n How the computers from where your users will dictate will connect to that network location; for example using a mapped drive, UNC connection, or an HTTP or HTTPS connection.
Using a networked computer or Windows file server
If you choose to use a networked computer or Windows server, you should determine the path to where the Master Roaming User Profiles will reside. You can create multiple network storage locations.
The Roaming feature supports the following types of locations for your Master Roaming User Profiles:
n Mapped Drives—Connects to a shared network folder that has a drive letter assigned to it.
n UNC Paths—Connects to a shared network folder using the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) to locate a User Profile. Format is:
\\<servername>\<sharename>\<path>\<filename>.
What you'll need to know to configure your local Roaming User Profiles
After you have chosen the type of computer to store the Master Roaming User Profiles, you should determine the following information so that you configure your local copies of Dragon
to connect to a mapped or shared drive: Mapped Drives
UNC paths
Using a HTTP or HTTPS web server
If you choose to use a HTTP or HTTPS web server, the Roaming feature supports the following types of locations for your Master Roaming User Profiles
n HTTP (http:)—Connects to computer on the internet or your local intranet. Format is: http://<myserver.com>/<webdav>
n HTTP with SSL (https:)—Connects to computer on the internet or your local intranet with SSL. Format is: https://<myserver.com>/<webdav>
Supported web servers
If you want to store your Master Roaming User Profiles on a web server, Internet access to Master Roaming User Profiles is supported on two web servers:
n Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 and 7.5. For this type of server: l Be sure that the server has Web-based Distributed Authoring and
Versioning (WebDAV) software is turned on to publish content to an Internet Information Services (IIS) web server.
If you have not already installed the WebDAV component, use the Add or Remove Programs in your Control Panel and run the Windows Components Wizard. WebDav is listed under Application Server>Internet Information Services>World Wide Web
Service>WebDAV Publishing.
n Apache HTTP Server 2.0.54 and higher. For this type of server:
l Internet Roaming User—Redirects must be turned on when using Digest authentication.
l Be sure that the server has Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) software turned on. The WebDAV Apache module is available free of charge at
http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/.
What you'll need to know to configure your local Roaming User Profiles
After you have chosen the type of computer to store the Master Roaming User Profiles, you should determine the following information so that you configure your local copies of Dragon
to connect to the HTTP server:
n The network location: You need to know the URL address of your HTTP server. For more information, see XXXXX.
n HTTP settings: For your http (or https) connection you need to know authentication, firewall, and proxy server information. For more information, see HTTP Settings.
Notes: For use of WebDAV
n After you install Internet Information Services and WebDAV, you need to use the Internet Information Services Manager tool to set the “Allow Unknown MIME Types”, “Allow Custom Properties”, and “Allow Property Queries with Infinite Depth” settings to true. For example, in IIS 7:
n For more information, see Configuring Internet Information Services and WebDAV for HTTP Roaming.
n If you connected to your Roaming User Profile Master Directory over HTTP and you find that the Open User Profile dialog box does not display all the vocabularies and acoustic models for your User Profiles, make sure that you:
l Add all file extensions within your Master Roaming User Profile directories and sub-directories to the Registered MIME types list of your IIS server. You could also add a wildcard ( .*) MIME-type. For more information on adding a wildcard ( .*) MIME-type, see: For Windows Server 2008:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725608(WS.10).aspx l Check that no files in your User Profile directory are locked, password
protected, or otherwise access-restricted by your server permissions.
Where to install and configure Dragon
NaturallySpeaking13
Installing Dragon NaturallySpeaking13 where you plan to dictate using the Roaming feature
Dragon NaturallySpeaking13 must be installed each computer where you plan to have users dictating with Roaming User Profiles.
Installing Dragon NaturallySpeaking13 on the same computer as your Master Roaming User Profiles
Nuance recommends that you install Dragon NaturallySpeaking13 on the same computer where the Master Roaming User Profiles for your network are located.
As the system administrator, you are responsible for running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer on the network location of the Master Roaming User Profiles. The
Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer and the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler can only be run on the Master Roaming User Profiles.
Running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer updates the Master Roaming User Profiles with the accumulated acoustic data from any corrections and additional training done by the users at the computers where they dictate. Running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer will increase your overall accuracy. Any optimizations done by the
Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer are copied to each Local Roaming User Profile when synchronization occurs.
Running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer over the network can result in a large amount of data being transferred between the server and the workstation running the optimizer.
For more information, see Running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer for Roaming User Profiles.
If you are using Dragon NaturallySpeaking13, see Using multiple acoustic models with a User Profile for information on using the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer with a User Profile that has two acoustic models.
Notes:
n You must have Windows Administrator privileges on the computer where you are running the Scheduler for the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer.
n Do not enable the Roaming feature on the administrator computer where you plan to run the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer.
n When the Roaming feature is enabled on a computer where someone dictates, that computer is blocked from locally running the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer or the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer Scheduler on the local copy of the Roaming User Profiles.
For more information on installing or upgrading Dragon
For more information on installing or upgrading Dragon NaturallySpeaking13 on the computers in your network, see:
n Upgrading Roaming User Profiles: Overview for information how to upgrade Roaming User Profiles to Dragon NaturallySpeaking13.
n The Installation Guide that came with your copy of Dragon for information on installing Dragon on a single computer.
n The Dragon Administrator Guide for information on how to use MSI to install or upgrade Dragon on multiple computers.