What Is the Connection Manager Administration Kit Wizard?

The Connection Manager Administration Kit wizard is distributed to you along with Microsoft Connection Manager so that you can build custom versions of Connection Manager for your users.

Through Connection Point Services, Connection Manager automatically obtains custom phone books. Phone books provide users with complete POP information, so users can roam and connect to different Internet access points without being restricted to a single POP.

Without the ability to update phone books—a task handled automatically by Connection Point Services—users would have to contact technical support to be informed of changes in POP information and to reconfigure their client dialer software.

Connection Point Services has two components:

Phone Book Administration. A tool used to create and maintain the phone book database and to publish new phone book information to the Phone Book Service.
Phone Book Service. An Internet Information Server extension that runs on Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0 or later. Phone Book Service automatically checks subscribers’ or corporate employees’ current phone books and, if necessary, downloads a phone book update.

Connection Manager also integrates with:

Internet Authentication Services. A Windows NT service that performs remote authentication, authorization, and accounting of users who are attaching to a network access server (NAS).

Minimum Requirements

The wizard requires 3 megabytes (MB) free disk space and one of the following:

Microsoft Windows 95 operating system on a personal computer with a 486/25 processor and 8 MB memory (32 MB recommended)
Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0 operating system on a personal computer with a 486/25 processor and 12 MB memory (32 MB recommended)