XFOR: Preserving PABs During Upgrade or Re-installation

ID: Q169775

The information in this article applies to:

Linkage Message Exchange (PROFS), version 3.2
Linkage Message Exchange (SNADS), version 3.2

LinkAge Connectors use the MAPI Personal Address Book service for storing any required temporary proxy addresses. These are stored under

   C:\LINKAGE\TABLES\*.PAB

or wherever the root is.

When you upgrade or re-install, it is important that these .pab files do not get deleted if you do not want to lose any previously generated temporary proxy addresses. You should also back these files up from time to time.

A Personal Address Book (PAB) is created for each of the Linkage connectors. This is because, in theory, certain addresses such as X.400 addresses for a Sender or Passive Recipient, can exceed the capacity of cc:Mail and Notes to directly represent them and therefore may require a map through the Exchange PAB. However, in practice, this seldom happens.

Keywords          : kbusage XFOR 
Version           : WinNT:5.0
Platform          : winnt
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: March 12, 1998