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This chapter provides information about the overall flow, or order, for configuring the components of your Cisco Unified Communications network.
For best results when you are configuring a complete Cisco Unified Communications system, start with the system-level components and work toward the individual devices. For example, you must configure the appropriate device pools, route lists, locations, and calling search spaces before you can use those components to configure phones and lines.
The general steps that are involved in configuring a complete IP telephony system are as follows. If you are not using a particular feature or component, you can skip that step. You have some flexibility in the order for performing these configuration steps, and in some cases, you might have to alternate between steps or return to a given step several times to complete your configuration.