Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Administrator Guide - Nuance

Dragon 12 Administrator Guide
Install the same Dragon configuration
on multiple computers
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Note: If you chose Enable Desktop Search Commands on the Commands tab during the initial
installation, you must install Google Desktop or Microsoft Vista Search before you install Dragon;
otherwise, that option does not take effect.
1. Be sure you can access the .ini files you created in the previous procedure from the computer
you will be installing on or copy the files to a local path on the client computer where you are
about to install Dragon.
2. Be sure you have the Dragon serial number (or the group serial number, if you are installing
Dragon to multiple computers on a network).
3. Be sure all mapped drives you plan to use are mapped on individual client computers where you
are distributing the installation.
4. Install any pending Windows updates and reboot the computer.
5. Open a command line window (Start > Run cmd).
6. Insert the product DVD in the DVD drive and search the DVD for the path where the Dragon
setup.exe is located.
7. On the computer where you are installing Dragon, to install the same configuration you created
during the initial installation, enter the following on the command line (using the customized
nsdefaults.ini file) of a single client. You pass the Dragon serial number for the SERI-
ALNUMBER option and the full path to the nsdefaults.ini file using the DEFAULTSINI
option (this line assumes no Roaming User Profiles):
setup.exe /s /v"SERIALNUMBER=#####-###-####-####-##
INSTALLDIR=\"C:\\Dragon12\"
DEFAULTSINI=\"C:\\nsdefaults.ini\"
/L*v C:\Logs\logfile.log
Note: The full path for the DEFAULTSINI setting uses escaped out quotation marks (preceded
by a backslash) only when there are spaces in the full path.
Caution: The first time you test any installation, you should pass /q rather than /qn so that if
you have neglected to provide information about a setting that does not have a default, you
receive a GUI prompt for that information.
8. If you entered a network address in the Network Directories box and set up HTTP or HTTPS
settings in the Roaming tab of the Administrative Settings dialog during the initial installation,
those settings are transferred to your client computers only if you include the ROAM-
INGUSERINI option, set to roamingdef.ini:
setup.exe /s /v"SERIALNUMBER=#####-###-####-####-##
INSTALLDIR=\"C:\\Dragon12\"
DEFAULTSINI=\"C:\\nsdefaults.ini\"
ROAMINGUSERINI=\"C:\\roamingdef.ini\"
/L*v C:\Logs\logfile.log