Intel vPro: Who uses it? Any good software for it?

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Intel vPro: Who uses it? Any good software for it?

Post by Anakha56 »

Morning All,

So I have always been curious as to what vPro is and how it could be used in my environment and today I have finally had the time to configure and setup 2 machines with vPro.

I can log into these machines via their web interfaces and from what I can tell vPro would allow for two things:

1: Remote access into a machine and if I am not mistaken into hardware level.
2: Power on/off control from network.

Now these two sound similar to Remote Desktop and WOL hence the reason why I am struggling to find a use for it.

So who uses vPro here? What are your uses for it?

Many Thanks! :)
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Re: Intel vPro: Who uses it? Any good software for it?

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We used to have it enabled at a company I worked for incase the system went ( . Y . ) up and wouldn't boot into windows.
Useful when the servers in Namibia or the Cape. 1 click and the system restarts again. Servers sometimes won't come up after a reboot. Either a KB error or updates or something stupid. Some servers were prone to it but mostly it was a case of don't do anything stupid like change an IP address on a network card or disable the connection and don't shut down.
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