Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Administrator Guide - Nuance

Dragon 12 Administrator Guide
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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:///
n HTTP with SSL (https:)—Connects to computer on the internet or your local intranet with
SSL. Format is: https:///
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.