Setting up Exchange 2007 UM in my basement

I’ve already done one Exchange 2007 UM deployment for a customer who wanted it set up in their lab. However, now I’m branching out and deploying it again… at my house.

Mitel was kind enough to loan me a 3300 ICP to use as the centerpiece of my system, along with a couple of IP phones (including the verrry cool Navigator). Along with that, I have an Intel PIMG gateway, my trusty Exchange 2007 server, and a large stack of notes and screenshots on how to get everything working together.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be setting everything up and documenting the experience, both here and in a forthcoming e-book on setting up Exchange 2007 UM and Live Communications Server 2005 with Mitel hardware. Stay tuned for more details! (One valuable tidbit: the status lights on the 3300 are supposed to be red during normal operation– a bit of a change from what we usually expect in hardware!)