Use your existing database with Phone Book Administrator

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Use your existing database with Phone Book Administrator

If you already maintain your phone book data in other databases, you can import both entire files and incremental updates to your phone books by using the command line interface to Phone Book Administrator (PBA).

You can write a query that exports the changes from your database into two text files: one for regions and one for POPs. Once you have these files, you can use the command-line interface to import changes.

You should keep a record in your database of the last time that you created import files for PBA. You can use this time stamp to create just the change (delta) files to be imported into PBA.

For information on creating new POP and region files, and exporting data, see Add, edit, or delete POPs by command line and Add, edit, or delete regions by command line.

Notes

  • POPs and regions must be in separate files.

  • Command-line region files do not match the region-file format imported or generated by the PBA user interface.

  • You might want to create and publish your first phone book with the user interface to ensure that all authentication and configuration issues are worked out.

  • If you have not yet posted your phone book, you can import up to 32,000 POPs. If, however, you have already posted, the limit is 6,000 POPs (combined adds, edits, and deletes) for each subsequent post.