Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Administrator Guide - Nuance

Dragon 12 Administrator Guide
Upgrading Roaming User
Profiles: Overview
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This section describes how to upgrade Roaming User Profiles from Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.x
or 11.x to Dragon NaturallySpeaking .
Since the Local Roaming User Profile is a copy of a subset of the end-user data taken from the
master Roaming User Profile, an administrator cannot directly upgrade the Local Roaming User
Profile when they upgrade the local Dragon installation from Dragon 10.x or 11.x to Dragon NaturallySpeaking
.
See "Upgrading User Profiles to Dragon NaturallySpeaking " in Dragon - What's New for administrators
for more information.
Notes:
n Upgrading a set of Dragon 10.x or 11.x master Roaming User Profiles to Dragon
NaturallySpeaking leaves the Dragon 10.x or 11.x master Roaming User Profiles unchanged.
Leaving the Dragon 10.x or 11.x files intact allows the users in the network to run Dragon 10.x
or 11.x while the administrator plans the upgrade.
n You can upgrade from a variety of Dragon products to Dragon NaturallySpeaking . If you have
custom vocabularies from other versions or editions of Dragon, you must recreate the custom
vocabularies in Dragon NaturallySpeaking . See 'Upgrading to Dragon NaturallySpeaking ' in
What you should know before upgrading from a previous version for details.
n Plan to upgrade the master Roaming User Profiles at a time when User Profiles are not in use,
for example during the night or on a weekend.
n Even though the Dragon NaturallySpeaking User Profile Upgrade Wizard supports both mapped
drives and UNC paths, Nuance strongly recommends that administrators upgrade the Master
Roaming User Profiles on a drive on a computer where Dragon NaturallySpeaking is locally
installed. Nuance does not recommend that administrators upgrade the Master Roaming User
Profiles across a network to either a mapped drive or UNC path; upgrading over a network will
take a undetermined length of time. In addition, the User Profile Upgrade Wizard does not support
upgrading User Profiles over an HTTP connection.
n If upgrading from Dragon version 8.x or earlier to Dragon NaturallySpeaking , version 8.x or
earlier custom words and commands can be re-used in Dragon NaturallySpeaking :
1. In Dragon 8.x or earlier, export the custom words and commands
2. In Dragon NaturallySpeaking , create a new User Profile
3. In Dragon NaturallySpeaking , import the custom words and commands
See the Dragon Help for information on exporting and importing custom words and
commands.
Step 1: Preparing to upgrade Roaming User Profiles
To upgrade Master Roaming User Profiles from a previous version of Dragon, Nuance recommends
that an administrator install Dragon NaturallySpeaking directly on the network