The following diagram illustrates the release processes used by the administration tool to create full and partial phone books (delta files) from the database. The administration tool then incorporates the version and region files into .cab files. As part of the posting process, the Connection Point Services database and accompanying .cab files are placed in a posting directory and then transferred to the server.
Note
The following diagram uses ByteComp as a fictional phone book name to better illustrate how Connection Point Services uses file, database, and directory naming conventions.
The identifiers prefixed by C (C1, C2, C3, and so on) correspond to process steps in creating phone book files, .cab files, and phone book database updates. The identifiers prefixed by P (P1, P2, P3) correspond to process steps in posting information to Phone Book Service.
| Process step | Explanation |
| C1 | Generate full phone book file, up to five delta phone book files, version file, and region file. The tool creates an array of files and puts them into a release directory when building a phone book release. |
| C2 | Create the full .cab file by using the phone book, version, and region files. The tool compresses the full phone book file, version, and region files into a full .cab file. |
| C3 | Create delta .cab files, using delta phone book, version, and region files. The tool compresses delta phone book, version, and region files into delta .cab files. |
| P1 | Add query values to the Connection Point Services database. The values are indexed to match particular .cab files needed to update Connection Manager. |
| P2 | Create new post directory. The tool creates a new post directory unique to the phone book version and post attempt. |
| P3 | Copy .cab files from the release directory to the post directory. The tool copies the .cab files into the unique post directory. It then copies PBServer.mdb and renames it newpb.mdb. |
| P4 | Post the Connection Point Services database and .cab files to the Phone Book Service host. The administration tool uses FTP service to transfer the database and .cab files to the server. |