Intel Open Port: Intel vPro Expert Center Blog : 2008 : April : 30

Brad Anderson & Gregory Bryant took a few moments to talk to a few folks about vPro & SCCM SP1.

Here's a few comments to share out:

GB - 800Million transitors in the chip. Transistors are focused on solving IT problems now.. (good news to IT folks).

Brad - key message is that users are moving to SCCM & the request is out to join up & give feedback to MS on the new console. (that's SCCM SP1).

GB - ROI's are positive, definitely a focus on changing the biz process is important.

Brad - Config Mgr is making life easier.

NOTE: Tom Quillin did a stellar job of hosting the session.. Kudos Tom.

Now onto a few audience questions.. if your not here @ MMS, your missing out..

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After walking around the booths yesterday the trend was clear - Integration Matters, make it easier. I couldn't agree more. Integration is where the value is driven from, understanding, planning & leveraging the right HW/SW solution is the key.

Day 2 kicks off - Brad Anderson - The changing desktop landscape. Discussing Dynamic IT, w/ the focus moving towards User -Focused. Even here the message keeps ringing "INTEGRATE".

Brad started the discussion around vPro - also that SCCM SP1 - May, R2 release candidate in July. He discussed "Comprehensive Management" that focuses in 4 vectors: physical, virtual, User setting/data & Hardware.

Now onto Dave Randall - configuration with vPro. with SCCm SP1 there are 15 OOB mgmt features they are supporting (I will get that list). He then took a bank of PC's in the comms area & shut them down.. Would you really do that in your enterpise - probably not, but if you lost control of the box this is available.

Dave is showing all the key features of OOB - i.e. SOL into the bios, also discussing the use of IDE-R (IDE redirect).

cheers.