Do I have Intel vPro in my environment?

Sharing a great experience and learning from a customer engagement this past week.   The customer thought they had only a few Intel vPro systems in their environment, and we were collaborating on getting the vPro provisioning process running.

During the discussion, I encouraged the customer to enable OOB Discovery.  This very light process provides an overview picture of vpro\amt systems in an environment. OOB Discovery runs a small script using the existing Altiris agent, and makes ~8 data point updates on the client object in the Symantec\Altiris database.

The customer thought only 20 vpro system were in the environment. After enabling OOB Discovery, I received the following note – “[Enabled] the OOB Discovery package and now realize we have a lot more machines that are vPro compatible than I would have thought (about 650 last I checked)… I honestly had no idea we were purchasing all of our [systems] with vPro”

vPro provides some great capabilities to enhance Endpoint Management, Endpoint Protection, Data Loss prevention, and more.     vPro allows direct hardware connectivity for remote power control, network filtering on the physical client port, boot redirection (override the default BIOS boot order with a network\local based boot image), and more.  

If you have Endpoint Management today - specifically the Client Management Suite - enable the OOB Discovery process and you'll likely find systems that are Intel Active Management Technology capable...

More information available at http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/provisioning-intel-vpro-technology-part-2-determining-what-systems-are-intel-amt-and-remote