#WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar featuring Thorsten Pickhan and Michael Plettner

Since 2013 the Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands (WPNinjasNL) is organizing multiple events every year! Join us and share your knowledge about Azure, Microsoft 365, System Center and more.

We are happy to announce that Thorsten Pickhan and Michael Plettner will join us during our 27th Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands Tuesdays!

Subject: Teams Phone System – A must have for the modern workplace

Modern workplaces and flexible “offices” are important topics and have gained momentum especially during Covid-19. Often the last, missing part in companies to roll out this new way to work is telephony via landline. Usually you’re not able to move the desk phone to your home office, so you’re either not reachable via Office number or you use expensive forwarding settings to your mobile phone. But outgoing calls still don’t present your office number.
Maybe you already use Teams to work from home, to chat with colleagues, work together on the projects and tasks. So this session will explain what’s necessary to bring telephony into Microsoft Teams to empower more people to work, where ever they are. This is not only about the technical part like configuring MS Teams in the backend but how to create a positive mindset for the users and help them to use this new technology with enterprise approved adoption concepts.
At the end of session we will go into more technical details and will look how to optimize Teams Phone system regarding Media flow and bandwidth usage in your network.

About Michael Plettner:
Microsoft MVP (Office Apps and Services), Lead of the Microsoft Teams User Group Germany, Co-Host "Talk Microsoft 365"

During the last decade Michael was mainly focused on Microsoft Unified Communications projects within small, mid-size and global enterprise companies with up to 400.000 project affected users.
More than 4 years ago Michael founded his own company to help customers within his technical expertise in Microsoft Unified Communication Projects as well as his expertise in User Adoption, Change- and Project-management.

Michael is also one of the organizers of the Microsoft Teams User Group Germany, hosting an onsite event in 3 cities simultaneously every 2 months and is one of 3 owner of the Adoption and Change Forum in Munich.

About Thorsten Pickhan:
Senior Microsoft UC Consultant, Speaker and Community Worker

I'm working as Senior UC Consultant at gab ExactlyIT Solutions GmbH where I am responsible to plan and deploy UC infrastructures based on Microsoft technologies. I'm working as technician and consultant for more than 15 years and been specialized in Microsoft Lync/Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams for 8 years. From beginning of my UC consultant career, I was focused on Enterprise Voice implementations.

Since a few years I am co-organizer of the Microsoft Teams User Group Germany and involved in the community as speaker, blog post author and maintain my own Office 365 YouTube channel. Here I publish on a regular basis new video content for my weekly “Office 365 QuickTipps” channel. In a further YouTube project, together with my friend Michael Plettner, we release a German Microsoft 365 Talk.