Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Administrator Guide - Nuance

Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI)
Carrying Out an Administrative
Installation with .bat File
A straightforward way to install Dragon from the command line to a server is to carry out an administrative
installation using a .bat file.
Caution: Only advanced administrators should attempt any type of administrative installation.
Note: A script for carrying out a full administrative installation is provided in the admininstall.bat
file at the top of the directory structure on the DVD. The script includes a bare minimum of the
options available, so you might want to read through the Installation using the Dragon command
line to find out about other options you might use.
Understanding the script in admininstall.bat
Below are some of the lines from the script in the admininstall.bat file, a batch file that de-compresses
setup files into a network location for installation using SMS or another service.
To run the batch file, you enter admininstall.bat and follow it with the location of the Dragon .msi
file.
Near the top of the batch file, you see the lines that check the parameters entered and if the parameters
passed are not acceptable, execute a routine that handles that situation:
:rem //Check and analyze input parameters if .%1.==.. goto bad_args if
.%2.==.. goto bad_args if .%3.==.. goto bad_args
If the arguments you pass when you enter the command are acceptable, the batch file sets the
NETWORK_DNS_DIR to the location of the Dragon .msi file:
set NETWORK_DNS_DIR=%1%
When you run the admininstall.bat file, the file installs Dragon using a single line of code that calls
the setup.exe command and passes it:
n /a option — Indicates administrative install
n /s option for a silent no-GUI installation
n /v option to indicate msiexec options follow, enclosed in quotation marks
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.
The msiexec options with /v include /qb for display of a basic GUI during the process, the TAR-
GETDIR setting, and a /L with a series of log file options, including the name and location for
the log file:
echo Installing Dragon NaturallySpeaking... setup.exe /a /s /v"/qb TAR-
GETDIR=%NETWORK_DNS_DIR% /L*v %TEMP%\admininstall.log"
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