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Saves the new POP to the phone book without closing the Add POP dialog box. After you click Save, you can immediately add another POP to the phone book. Some information is already filled in based on the information you entered for the last POP.


Closes this dialog box.


Closes this dialog box and saves any changes you have made.


Closes this dialog box without saving any changes you have made.


Prints the phone-book file information you are viewing. The document prints at your default printer.


 Help is available for each item on this tab. Click [image] at the top of the dialog box, and then click the item you want information about.


Displays a list of phone books that you can manage using Phone Book Administrator. To make changes or view a phone book, click its name in the list.


Displays the name of the phone book you are currently viewing and the filter you have selected for the list of POPs below.


Displays a list of POPs included in the current phone book. The list is filtered by criteria you specify under Filter POP list. To edit a POP, click it in the list, and then click Edit. To sort the list, click the title of the column by which you want to sort the POPs.


Lists the filters that can be applied to the POP list. To select a filter, click it in the list. To further narrow the list of POPs, specify additional criteria in Containing. (Containing is not available if you have selected All POPs in Filter by.) To apply the filter to the POP list, click Apply.


Provides a space you can use to narrow your search for POPs. For example, you might click Access Number in Filter by, type 123 in Containing, and then click Apply. All POPs in the phone book containing the numbers 123 (in that order) as part of their access number would then appear in the POP list. Containing is not available if you have selected All POPs in Filter by.


Applies the filter you have specified to the current phone book. The POPs that match the filter criteria appear in the POP list.


Click to add new POPs to the current phone book. Provide POP information, such as name, country or dependency, region, area code, access number (phone number), and POP status. If you want to continue adding POPs to the phone book, click Save. When you finish adding POPs, click OK.


Click to edit the POP selected in the POP list.


Deletes the POP currently selected in the POP list.


Provides a space for you to type the name of the POP. The name must contain no more than 30 characters and cannot contain a comma (,) or a double quotation mark ("). You can assign the same name to more than one POP.


Specifies the country or dependency assigned to the POP. If the currently assigned country or dependency is incorrect, click the correct one in the list.


Specifies the region assigned to the POP. If the assigned region is incorrect, click the correct one in the list.

To edit the list of regions, on the Tools menu, click Regions Editor.


Provides a space for you to type the access number (phone number) that subscribers use to dial in to the POP.


Provides a space for you to type the area code for the POP access number (phone number). If this POP does not have an area code, type a space (press SPACEBAR).


Specifies the status of the POP, either In Service or Not In Service. To specify the status of a POP, click the status in the list.

Only POPs assigned In Service status are included in the phone book file when it is published. If you are not ready to distribute POP information to subscribers but you want to store it in the phone book, click Not In Service.


 Provides a space for you to type a Dial-Up Networking entry if required by the POP or your service. This entry name, containing no more than 50 characters with no commas or double quotation marks, corresponds to entries created when the Connection Manager package is installed.


Displays the minimum analog speed at which subscribers can connect to this POP. To change the minimum speed, type the speed or select one from the list. If you do not want to specify a minimum speed, leave this blank. The speed is measured in bits per second (bps).


Displays the maximum analog speed at which subscribers can connect to this POP. To change the maximum speed, type the speed or select one from the list. If you do not want to specify a maximum speed, leave this blank. The speed is measured in bits per second (bps).


Lists the service settings you can assign to a POP. To assign a setting to a POP, select the check box next to that setting.


Specifies whether subscribers can use this POP to sign on to your service.


Specifies whether subscribers can use this POP to sign up for your service.


Specifies whether subscribers are charged an additional fee when using this POP. If you select this check box, the access number for this POP appears in More access numbers in the Connection Manager Phone Book dialog box.


Specifies whether subscribers can connect to this POP by modem.


Specifies whether subscribers can connect to this POP using an ISDN connection device.


 Specifies whether this POP supports IP multicast protocols.


Specifies whether a custom service setting is assigned to this POP. You can specify custom service settings in the Connection Manager service profile. For more information, see Connection Manager Administration Kit Help.


Provides a space for you to type comments about this POP. The comments you type here are for your own use and will not be seen by the user.


 Provides a space for you to type the address of the Phone Book Service. You can type a DNS (Domain Name System) address, such as www.microsoft.com, or you can type an IP (Internet Protocol) address, such as 255.255.255.255. The phone book files you create are posted to the server at this address.


Provides a space for you to type your user name required by the Phone Book Service for FTP access.


Provides a space for you to type your password required by the Phone Book Service for FTP access. For security, asterisks will appear as you type.


Adds a region to the list. Type a name for the region, and then press ENTER. Region names must contain no more than 30 characters and cannot contain a double quotation mark (") or a comma (,).


Click to edit the region currently selected in the region list. Type a new name for the region, and then press ENTER. Region names must contain no more than 30 characters and cannot contain a double quotation mark (") or a comma (,).


Deletes the region currently selected in the region list.


Click to import a text file containing a list of regions. Region files must be in .pbr file format, where a number on the first line of the file corresponds with the number of regions the file contains. For example:

3

Alaska

Arizona

California


Displays a list of regions that are available to assign to POPs in this phone book. To edit or delete a region, click its name in the list, and then click Edit or Delete.


Specifies which POPs to display in the list below. To view all the In Service POPs in the phone book, click Full Phone Book in the list. To view only the POPs that have changed between the most recent version and a previous version, click the appropriate delta version. (A delta file contains the POPs that have changed between the most recent phone book version and previous versions.)

The lower the delta number, the earlier the version number. For example, if there are five delta versions, Delta 1 is the difference between the current full phone book and the full phone book created five versions ago. Delta 5 is the difference between the current full phone book and the full phone book version created just before it.


Displays the list of POPs you specified in File.

To save this information to a text file, click Save As. (The saved file has a .pbk file name extension.) To print this information, click Print.


Saves the phone book information to a text file. The text file has a .pbk file name extension.


Provides a space for you to type a name for the new phone book you are creating. This name appears in Phone books in the main window of Phone Book Administrator.

The phone book name must contain no more than eight characters, cannot consist of all digits, and must not contain a space, extended character sets, or any of the following symbols:

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If you created a service profile using the Connection Manager Administration Kit, the name you type must match the phone book name you typed in the Phone Book dialog box in the Connection Manager Administration Kit wizard.


Displays the name of the phone book you selected to copy.


Provides a space for you to type a name for the new phone book. The new phone book contains the same information as the phone book in Original phone book. The new phone book's release number is reset to zero.

The phone book name must contain no more than eight characters, cannot consist of all digits, and must not contain a space, extended character sets, or any of the following symbols:

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If you created a service profile using the Connection Manager Administration Kit, the name you type must match the phone book name you typed in the Phone Book dialog box in the Connection Manager Administration Kit wizard.


Displays the version number of the phone book you are creating and posting. This number pertains only to the phone book selected in Phone books in the main window of Phone Book Administrator. Each time you post this phone book, this number increases by one.


Click to change the posting location (Phone Book Service address) and user credentials.


Provides a space for you to enter the directory path to the location where you want to save the phone book files before posting to the Phone Book Service. The directory you enter must already exist, and you must have Read and Write access to it.

To create the phone book files and save them in this directory, click Create.


Click to locate and select the drive and directory where you want to save the phone book files. The directory you select appears in Release directory.


Displays the address of the Phone Book Service where the phone book files you create are posted.

To change the Phone Book Service address, click Options. Then, in Server address, type a different Phone Book Service address.


Creates phone book files before posting them to the Phone Book Service. You can use these files to test the phone book. Phone book files are created in the location you specify in Release directory.


Posts phone book files containing only the most current updates. Files are posted from the location in Release directory to the Phone Book Service at the location displayed in Server address.