Creating, Configuring, and Deleting Phone Books

Creating a new phone book for use with the Phone Book Service requires two procedures:

Naming the phone book
Configuring the phone book options

Phone Book Administrator is capable of posting multiple phone books to the server. However, Connection Manager must be configured to query the Phone Book Service database for those phone books. For more information about the ability of Connection Manager to query for multiple phone books, see the Connection Manager Administration Kit documentation.

Phone books should be named according to their use. For example, you can simply enter all POPs in one phone book, which easily facilitates the roaming feature, or you can create phone books based on areas. After you name a phone book, you need to configure it with the server hostname and the administrative user ID and password.

To name a phone book

Click Start, point to Programs, point to Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, point to Internet Connection Services for RAS, and then click Phone Book Administrator.
On the File menu, click New Phone Book.
Type the phone book name.
Click OK.

To configure the phone book options

Select the phone book in the Phone books list.
On the Tools menu, click Options.
Type the following information:
- Server host name/address (friendly name or IP address)
- Administrative user name
- Administrative password
Click OK to save the new phone book settings.

To copy a phone book

Click Start, point to Programs, point to Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, point to Internet Connection Services for RAS, and then click Phone Book Administrator.
Select the phone book in the Phone books list.
On the File menu, click Copy Phone Book.
When prompted, type the name for the new copy of the phone book.

Note

All phone book data in the original phone book file is maintained in the copy except for the version number, which reverts back to 1.

To delete a phone book

Click Start, point to Programs, point to Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, point to Internet Connection Services for RAS, and then click Phone Book Administrator.
Select the phone book in the Phone books list.
On the File menu, click Delete Phone Book. A dialog box appears asking whether you want to delete the phone book.
Click Yes.

After a phone book is deleted, the indexed references are removed. However, released .cab files remain on the administration tool as well as on the server. If you want to remove the .cab files, you must do it manually.