Are you not much of a blogger? Well, have no fear...There are more ways for you to stay updated and get involved with everything vPro! If writing up your best known methods or posting a quick start guide to the Expert Center isn't your idea of fun then here are seven other great options to stay involved with the vPro community...

Facebook

Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. The site that millions of users have grown to love also has a page for need-to-know and latest news on Intel vPro Technology. Go to http://www.facebook.com, create a profile, and add "Intel-vPro" as a friend through this link.

Twitter

As its website states, "Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?" Curious what vPro is up to? Create an account and follow the tweets of "intelvPro" at http://twitter.com/intelvPro or follow the "Proest of Pro's," Josh Hilliker, at www.twitter.com/joshprostar

Heartbeat Newsletter

This bi-weekly newsletter includes everything new with Intel vPro Technology. You’ll learn about new white papers, user guides, known issues and more when you receive this newsletter. Click here to sign up!

Distribution Lists

Get Intel vPro help/updates/news/BKMs & MORE delievered right to your inbox. Questions and answers are swapped and info distributed through this list. Go to this link and subscribe.

YouTube

The leader in online video and perfect destination to watch and share videos on the worldwide web, YouTube has been an awesome outlet for some of our favorite and most helpful vPro videos. You can find tons of vPro videos on http://www.youtube.com/vproexpert and can also watch those that Josh Hilliker has posted at http://www.youtube.com/joshprostar

BlogTalkRadio

Hosted by Josh Hilliker, Russ Pam, and Jeff Torello (and featuring a little bit of myself every now and then) this bi-weekly informal show covered a variety of topics and was a perfect avenue to get your questions answered. On BlogTalkRadio you can listen to all of the shows that we have already recorded! Make sure not to miss out on this awesome opportunity to learn and engage with the vPro experts. Visit the Open Port Radio site to hear previous shows and stay updated as we release our future show topics...

Quick Start Guides

Another helpful resource that is provided on Intel vPro are the quick start guides that are posted. These guides include the steps to setup Intel AMT devices with LANDesk, Altiris, and Microsoft.

A representative of Microsoft holds a discussion with an Intel manager from Digital Office Platform Division, Mike Ferron-Jones. Find more about what Intel is doing for security, manageability, and energy efficiency with vPro and how Microsoft is helping to deploy some of the vPro solutions with its software. Listen to this clip for an insight on Wake-on-LAN, Microsoft Application Virtualization, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructures. Click the link below to listen.

Listen Here: [Microsoft/Intel Podcast|http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/b/9/eb90c169-6b47-4bae-b6f1-5c0825e1542a/ESGMicrosoftIntelPodcast.mp3]

Virtual World - a computer based world that represents all aspects of life, as we know it. There are many fun and exciting examples of ways people have turned aspects of our world into a virtual world, and often these are found in massively multiplayer online games. However, one virtual representation I have been learning about lately is one called virtual appliances. Virtual appliances represent complex software stacks in a virtual environment. However, with a virtual appliance we are taking something that is often very complex and have high maintenance costs and representing it as single application. The virtual appliances I have been learning about lately are not representing real life in a fun environment, but solving real problems by interfacing with the vPro features.

Recently Nicole Trent wrote a blog on Microsoft SCE. It is one of the many examples (you can find an abundance of appliances on the vPro Expert Center) of virtual appliances that can be used to interact with the features in vPro. These appliances are useful when you perform inventory and maintenance to vPro clients as they bundle the software you use to manage the clients into one location. Then you can use this to control your clients from your server by using the remote capabilities.

If you have a whole lot of clients in your business that need to be updated over night because it's critical for these to be in service for the day, you would can use a virtual appliance that contains the IT software needed to make up that script so IT wouldn't have to be there over night. These scripts can execute and maintain your machine while you're away from your desk, sleeping or having a fun weekend. Best of all, the IT people that make these scripts are allowed to have their nights and weekends as well, as the scripts can execute fully automated.

This is convenient for the "green" factor. We are able to send applications with aid of AMT without wasting anybody's time that would go desk side and put the application on each computer or if the computer itself needs help because it's in trouble. They would just apply it at one time not wasting time, money, and packaging (my past blogs emphasizing these features). When the alternative is having an IT person going from one site to another, this helps lower gas consumption.

This is just another tool to our future of virtual computing. The more comes out the more it helps aid in situations that only a few years ago that is changing the way our businesses are operating. Now that it's here we should be able to use it to it's full extent it's up to us to use push the limits.

P.S. This week most of us (yes vPro lovers, Mr. Josh Hilliker will be gracing us with his presence!) will be at IDF there will be a lot of good stuff coming out of the vPro Expert Center. If you cannot be there check, out the vPro site there will be blogs and radio shows (which by the way Blog Talk is on iTunes for free download- search Intel Open Port Radio) who know maybe you will hear me!! Stay tuned

Listen in as your hosts talk with Dave McCray, Intel's IT Program Manager. Intel IT is a leader in the activation and use of AMT. They have activated & provisioned over 10k machines - hear how they did it, why they are doing it & how to make your integration better based on Intel IT's best known methods. Also get a scoop on what you'll find in the coming year.

8/4/2008 3:30PM

(347) 326-9831

You can also visit Open Port Radio or Stream this Show Online

The vPro Expert Center's BlogTalkRadio show is hosted by Josh Hilliker, Russ Pam, and Jeff Torello. This bi-weekly informal show covers a variety of topics and is a perfect avenue to get your questions answered. Listen in live, give your two cents, or just download the show after it has aired. Make sure not to miss out on this awesome opportunity to learn and engage with the vPro experts. Can’t join us live? Have no fear, blogtalkradio let’s you listen to the show whenever you have the time. Visit the Open Port Radio site (link is above) to hear previous shows and even catch a glimpse of what’s to come!

Our topic will be around SCE/SCOM and vPro support through the vPro Management Pack. We'll have Matt Royer alongside one of the original developers, Nachman Israel, to discuss the use cases, the market focus, and more! Tune in live!

Visit Open Port Radio or Stream this Show Online

Incase you weren't aware...vPro Expert Center's BlogTalkRadio is hosted by Josh Hilliker, Russ Pam, and Jeff Torello. This bi-weekly informal show, produced by me, covers a variety of topics and is a perfect avenue to get your questions answered. Listen in live, give your two cents, or just download the show after it has aired. Make sure not to miss out on this awesome opportunity to learn and engage with the vPro experts. Can’t join us live? Have no fear, blogtalkradio let’s you listen to the show whenever you have the time. Visit the Open Port Radio site (link is above) to hear previous shows and even catch a glimpse of what’s to come!

TODAY: What’s coming in SCS next version? SCS 5.0 is just around the corner and the vPEC team has our guests Shai Kavas and Chaim Rand joining us. This version of SCS includes major usability and scalability improvements and contain some very exciting new features. Some of these cool features are results of feedbacks we got from our partners and… from YOU – our end customers. Wanna know more? Stay tuned to our show!

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/openport

Questions, comments, or concerns? Feel free to contact me.

Monday we're cooking up a great show, Russ, Jeff & I are going to be talking with Michele Gartner about the Activation zone and the latest status on how to self activate. We will also be talking about our top tool picks that we use for troubleshooting & enabling vPro. Definitely a show you won't want to miss out on. Also you can either stream, dial in or download after the show is over to listen. We will also have the chat line open for any and all questions related to vPro.

Here's the info:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/openport/2008/06/02/Intel-vPro-Expert-Center-Topic-TBD

Number: (347) 326-9831

Date/Time: 6/2/2008 3:30 PM (pacific)

In case you haven't already heard - our vPro Expert Community has been up and running with their show on Blogtalkradio. Feel free to visit www.blogtalkradio.com/openport to view past & upcoming shows from big time pros, Josh Hilliker & Russ Pam.

So now, we'd like to hear what you've got to say about it. We want to open up and see what you all think. How's the length? Is 15 minutes too short or would 30 minutes be too long? Would you rather hear about upcoming or past technologies? Would you want to hear some outside ideas during the show - like a guest from one of Intel's ISVs perhaps? Got any other suggestions for topics you'd like to see on the show?

Just a few questions there to get your brain moving - but the floor is wide open.