Its nice, I've seen demos of it. Its probably not in use a lot because there are so many better management suites out there. System Center on the expensive end, which is native MS, and a slew of other things on the lower end.
We just replaced our System Center setup and now use a mix of Spiceworks and PQDeploy, but we certainly could have looked at using AMT. Its such a buyers market and other apps have more features, it just didn't seem worth looking into. Intel's AMT/ME stuff seems more barebones than competitors. I can see why other shops are shying away from it.
FWIW, System Center was really, really nice and I wish we could have kept it, but MS discontinued the small office version of it and moving to the big boy version was just cost prohibitive. Unless you have over 250 machines to babysit, SC isn't worth it. SC eats a lot of competitors lunches. I suspect this is why big shops don't bother with AMT.
Also, AMT being unstoppable is a feature not a bug. You don't want end users being able to disable it or make changes if you manage an IT environment, even if they are local admins.
We just replaced our System Center setup and now use a mix of Spiceworks and PQDeploy, but we certainly could have looked at using AMT. Its such a buyers market and other apps have more features, it just didn't seem worth looking into. Intel's AMT/ME stuff seems more barebones than competitors. I can see why other shops are shying away from it.
FWIW, System Center was really, really nice and I wish we could have kept it, but MS discontinued the small office version of it and moving to the big boy version was just cost prohibitive. Unless you have over 250 machines to babysit, SC isn't worth it. SC eats a lot of competitors lunches. I suspect this is why big shops don't bother with AMT.
Also, AMT being unstoppable is a feature not a bug. You don't want end users being able to disable it or make changes if you manage an IT environment, even if they are local admins.