Microsoft-vPro

Sisters of Mercy Health System on Intel vPro technology and System Center Configuration Manager

jlvb — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:43:40 GMT

At MMS, Kiron Lahiri, Lead Systems Engineer for Client Systems, and Brian Boresi, Information Services Division, both with Sisters of Mercy Health System, talked about some of the powerful benefits of combining Intel vPro technology with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. Listen to the video and see how Sisters of Mercy Health System is benefiting from this combination of hardware and software in their infrastructure.

To see more videos from MMS, go to http://www.intel.com/go/mms/

System Integrators talk about System Center 2007 with Intel vPro technology

jlvb — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:58:20 GMT

While at MMS, we talked to two Service Integrators about Intel vPro technology with System Center 2007 - including the combination of Intel® vPro™ technology with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 for medium to large businesses and the combination of Intel® vPro™ Technology with System Center Essentials 2007 for small businesses.

To see more videos from MMS, go to http://www.intel.com/go/mms/

Demonstration of Intel vPro technology with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1

jlvb — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:47:18 GMT

While at MMS, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Program Manager Dave Randall demonstrated how Intel vPro Technology enhances Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1. The videos below include demonstrations around secure remote power control, remote diagnosis and repair of troubled PCs, discovery of PC assets, and remote configuration.

1) Video demonstration of hardware-assisted Secure Remote Power Control:

2) Video demonstration of hardware-assisted Remote Diagnosis and Repair:

3) Video demonstration of hardware-assisted Discovery of PC Assets:

4) Video demonstration of Remote Configuration of Intel vPro technology:

Click here to learn more about the combination of Microsoft System Center 2007 products with Intel vPro technology: http://communities.intel.com/community/vproexpert/microsoft-vpro

EDS talks about Intel vPro technology experience

jlvb — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:46:29 GMT

While at MMS, we had the opportunity to talk with D.C. Tardy, System Architect at EDS. He talked about the Return On Investment of Intel vPro technology, including a Canadian Call Center case study that returned a savings of almost $750,000 across 3 years. He also talked about the combination of System Center Configuration Manager with Intel vPro technology.

To see more videos from MMS 2008, go to http://www.intel.com/go/mms/

Microsoft and Intel executives talk about native Intel vPro technology support with System Center Configuration Manager 2007

jlvb — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:39:06 GMT

At MMS, we had Brad Anderson, General Manager of Microsoft Management and Services Division, and Gregory Bryant, Intel VP and General Manager of the Digital Office Platform Division, answer some questions about the new capabilities in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 with Intel vPro technology. See their responses below.

1) How does Intel vPro Technology fit into System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1?

2) What can IT expect in terms of the level of integration of Intel vPro Technology into System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1?

3) Why should IT now take advantage of Intel vPro Technology and System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1?

4) When should enterprises activate Intel vPro Technology with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 in their PC infrastructure?

5) Last, we asked a series of questions about System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 Support for the Current Generation of Intel vPro Technology with WS-MAN Support, as well as with Legacy Generations of Intel vPro technology.

To see more videos, demonstrations, interviews and more from MMS 2008, go to http://www.intel.com/go/mms/

ConfigMgr and WMI integration for vPro

davidra — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:16:16 GMT

In Josh's blog post about "Stump the PRO" - he mentions WMI & ConfigMgr. I wanted to post a bit more context for everyone interested in that integration point.

Overview: ConfigMgr client agent uses WMI to query AMT via the HECI driver.

The Configuration Manager client agent ships with a new WMI provider for the AMT HECI driver. Additionally, we have extended the SMS_DEF.MOF file with new classes that support the WMI provider. This is used by the hardware inventory agent when returning information about the client computer. You'll find the data easily for your AMT computers using the resource explorer for an AMT computer. The information is categorized under a new resource called "AMT Agent"

The inventory from that agent make a great basis for building queries to use the in-band agent based provisioning method.

Dave

Welcome to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager integration with Intel AMT Blog

davidra — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:46:09 GMT

Hello to the vPro community!

I'm David Randall, and have been working in the Configuration Manager team over the last year to develop our integration with Intel's AMT hardware.

I recently attended MMS 2008, and was very happy to hear all the enthusiasm around the Configuration Manager integration, and your plans to use vPro in conjunction with ConfigMgr.

I plan to post here weekly with new information that we've learned about ConfigMgr / AMT integration, help you with some walk throughs, list interesting new uses for vPro and where possible, help you streamline your Configuration Manager deployment with vPro.

Thanks, and here's to out of band management!

David Randall
Program Manager, Microsoft