Intel vPro Expert Center Blog

TechEd Europe 2009 - Win7

josh.hilliker@intel.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:21:16 GMT

At TechEd Europe 2009, Microsoft's Keith Mayer outlines how manageability can be achieved with Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Intel's Westmere-EP.

Why should I even care about Win7 and why would my IT shop really want this new Operating System.

josh.hilliker@intel.com — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:23:23 GMT

In the world of IT, the challenge of defining value is mission important and keeping relevance to your end users is a key aspect of this. One of the opportunities ahead for IT is the move to Windows 7 and the impact this will have on your end users. Let's start this discussion around three areas of why you should take notice:

Microsoft & Intel have been working together to make Windows 7 and our Hardware perform optimally with this new OS
Intel Architecture is best of breed with Centrino2 & Core2 you have the best for energy efficiency, security, productivity ( the list goes on ).
With Intel vPro Technology it's easier to get this new OS loaded or to bring your IT shop to a new playing field for IT support.

Microsoft & Intel have been working together to make Windows 7 and our Hardware perform optimally with this new OS

Why does it work better together you ask? Well. Better Yet - we'll show you

DVD video - Part I, II & III.

Security

Collaboration

Intel Architecture is best of breed with Centrino2 & Core2 you have the best for energy efficiency, security, productivity ( the list goes on ).

Intel Architecture simply rocks

Get the best overall performance with Intel® Core™2 Duo processor you'll get an arsenal of performance-rich technologies, including up to 6MB of shared L2 cache and up to 1333 MHz Front Side Bus.

Enjoy 3X faster multitasking performance with multi-core processing combines two independent processor cores in one physical package.¹ Processors run at the same frequency and share up to 6MB of L2 cache and up to 1333 MHZ Front Side Bus for truly parallel computing with over.

Improve execution time and energy efficiency with more instructions per clock cycle enabled by Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution.

Get smarter, more energy-efficient performance enabled by Intel® Intelligent Power Capability.

Improve system performance enabled by Intel® Smart Memory Access, optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth.

Get higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem enabled by Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, optimized for multi-core and dual-core processors.

Accelerate a broad range of applications, , including video, speech and image, photo processing, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific applications, enabled by Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost.

With Intel vPro Technology it's easier to get this new OS loaded or to bring your IT shop to a new playing field for IT support.

vPro who? If you haven't heard of vPro yet, here's 4 intersection points with Windows 7 that make's it easier to deploy & manage.

Use vPro to deploy win7 - Windows 7 & Intel vPro Technology - Use Case #2
Use your update to win7 to turn on vPro = more managed PC - Use Case: Activating vPro during your Windows 7 Deployment- Use Case #3
Bare metal machine's are in scope to activate + new OS - Use Case: Pre-OS vPro Provisioning - Use Case #4 (SEE THE USE CASE VIDEO HERE)
Legacy application migration becomes easier & deployment of those VM's are done afterhours. - Use Case: Operating System Migration and Legacy App in a SMB Environment - Use Case #1

So what?

Well it's optimized to work better together, our latest IA is better for your business and vPro just makes it all happen.

Don’t' forget we have a windows 7 wiki - http://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-3096

Windows 7 – Be Ready

josh.hilliker@intel.com — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:42:17 GMT

Key challenge with deploying a new operating system is preparing for the upgrade in your enterprise, from legacy applications, deployment schedules and seriously down to the how are you planning to roll out a new OS. While in the lab testing we discovered a few use cases that highlighted how you could deploy new OSes after normal work hours - Minimize end user and IT productivity impacts and maximize deployment saturation in the shortest period of time using Intel vPro Technology to initiate a remote PXE or media boot or an integrated power on command.

We dug in deeper and found the following value points from our lab test for deploying after you have vPro enabled:

• Perform remote OS deployments on bare metal hardware

• Perform remote OS deployments on PCs where the OS or PC agent are non-responsive

• Meet defined or mandated OS deployment timelines regardless of PCs’ power state or connectivity (wired / wireless)

While I realize that having vPro enabled is not always possible before an OS upgrade, therefore we are going to be posting how to deploy Win7 and enable vPro at the same time to assist with your deployment. We will be updating the following wiki as the new use cases are completed.

First Use case completed (as seen at MMS)

http://communities.intel.com/click.jspa?searchID=446723&objectType=102&objectID=3232

Windows 7 / vPro Wiki

http://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-3096

Win7, SCCM SP2 & vPro

josh.hilliker@intel.com — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:03:31 GMT

Today at MMS (Microsoft Management Summit) Brad Anderson showed a new use case we have been working on around Windows 7, SCCM SP2 & Intel vPro Technology. The specific use case is how to do an upgrade with user data while the state of the machine is powered down. This usage of vPro allows for OOB power up, then win7 installation begins. Here's what we will be posting shortly to help answer any questions you may have around this use case:

* Video of MMS & Brad showing this use case

* Use case flow document that shows what technology is being leveraged

What we have found in the lab, which I will publish out over the coming weeks, is that this technology works really well together and can make your win7 deployment easier. Please let me know your questions and tune back here for more of the data, specifics & use cases.