Publishing Phone Books

After you have created a phone book and added POPs, you are ready to make the phone book available to your users, a step known as publishing the phone book. To publish a phone book, you create a phone book release, and then you post it to the server.

Before you begin publishing phone books, you should verify that the POP status of the POPs you want to publish is set to In Service. Unless changes were made to POPs since the last successful publishing, Phone Book Administrator will not publish the phone book.

To release and post the phone book database and files

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.
If you have not done so already, specify the Connection Point server address to which to post the phone book files and database by first clicking Options, and then typing Server address, user name, and password.
On the Tools menu, click Publish Phone Book. The Publish Phone Book dialog box appears.
Type the path name of a release directory.
Click Create. The phone book, .cab, and version files are created and placed in the release directory.
Click Post.

Notes

If you specify a release directory on a remote computer, you may have to reset the directory every time you publish a phone book.

Every time you propagate a phone book by posting, it increments the version number of the phone book. If you post to multiple servers, the version numbers will be inaccurate. To propagate a phone book to multiple servers, use the Content Replication System (CRS) in Microsoft Site Server 2.0.