Winscribe DD - Standalone database upgrade in v4.2 and above

Standalone database upgrade in v4.2 and above

The database upgrade procedure changed in v4.2. After installing the v4.2 Dictation Server, there will be an executable called Winscribe.Dictation.Server.DatabaseUpgradeTool.exe located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Winscribe\Dictation Server.

To perform a database upgrade to v4.2, you need to run that executable and pass several parameters to it (you cannot run this by double-clicking on it), which are mostly the same as the registry entries from the WEB key (as in previous versions).

In order:
ws98542084 - special password to prevent accidentally running the database upgrade SQL
Server name - including named instance (eg. localhost\sqlexpress)
Database connection type - NamedPipes or TCP/IP
Database security type - SQL or NT (aka Windows authentication)
Database user name - encrypted SQL username found in HKLM→Software→Winscribe→WEB→DatabaseUserName (not required for Windows authentication)
Database user password - encrypted SQL password found in HKLM→Software→Winscribe→WEB→DatabaseUserPassword (not required for Windows authentication)

An example command line:
Winscribe.Dictation.Server.DatabaseUpgradeTool.exe ws98542084 localhost\SQLEXPRESS NamedPipes SQL 5n oQWioCceg

This executable will by default log to
C:\Users\ \AppData\Local\Winscribe\Logs\DictationServerDBUpgrade.log. You can quickly open this folder by executing %LocalAppData%\Winscribe\Logs. Remember to check that file to make sure the database upgrade succeeded, as you may not receive any visual feedback after running the tool.