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> It's incredibly useful for companies and organizations Is it? We don't use it for any of the 40k+ desktop or mobile devices we manage.
by washadjeffmad 4y ago
> It's incredibly useful for companies and organizations
Is it? We don't use it for any of the 40k+ desktop or mobile devices we manage.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoSame here with 150k+. Not using it, certainly never asked for it. Same with all the vPro stuff (which is kinda related but not completely). We do use Windows autopilot though but that doesn't depend on IME.
- HideousKojima 4y agoBack when I worked on the sysadmin side of things we used vPro for out of band management of servers in our datacenters, but we never used it for our 10k+ laptops and desktops.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoYeah exactly. We used Dell iDRAC remote management cards and HP ILO for that mostly. We still use the latter on the few servers we have left (which is very very few). But on laptops/desktops never. That still doesn't really give it any reason to have it in workstation chips, in Xeons perhaps...
- helpm33 4y agoIf you're using Intel architecture, it needs at least some SMM: it is used on startup (initial hardware configuration) and often during power management events (CPU clock scaling, hibernation, etc). The article mentions that they disable most but not all of SMM, for those reasons.
- jabroni_salad 4y agoIt gives you OOB management on every endpoint. These days I think it is less useful (I like autopilot/intune) but for some field devices it is nice to solve boot loop scenarios or similar bare metal problems over the internet instead of making a dude drive for 6 hours to BFE to find out why your doodad has ghosted.