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Office 365 Fun at TechED North America 2012

Written by Yoni Kirsh | June 13, 2012

I’m at TechED North America 2012 this week, It’s been really fun exploring what everyone has to offer.  For Office 365, Microsoft created a a diorama of one of their datacenters made from over thirty thousand Legos. It does a great job showing all of the engineering such as the modular scalable architecture and the free-air cooling.  Check out the pictures below.

 

Even cooler than the diorama, is their Office 365 IT Command Center.  From it you can control all the Office 365 services hosted in the cloud, both through PowerShell and through the Admin console.  But even more important you can do it all while playing flight sim.

If you are here, you should check it out. I think I’ll have to start working on my wife to let me place an order on one of these