At a public university. I keep saying to people in our IT department - hey, do you know about this vPro thing? Is anyone actually using it?

I mean, we are paying for it on like 70% of the computers we buy nowadays...

I'm not on the actual administration team. I am kinda figuring out they neither enjoy interacting with end users nor do they particularly seem to enjoy hearing from me (extra glorified helpdesk).

I am a little sad. It seems as if everytime I want to know more about something or take some initiative or learn how we keep this place above water, it's just shutdown after shutdown. Anyone with the ability to actually answer questions just, doesn't seem interested. One of them just said "I don't know anything about vPro. We don't use it." I followed up: "Well, the official purchasing guidelines that we (IT) published say, specifically, to enable vPro for an additional cost..." and that was the end of it.

:/ I feel badly about the amount of waste in education. I get it isn't a lot of money lost on this, probably, all things considered. But the attitude that it's just "a bit of lost change" feels really poisonous when the school follows it up by saying they can cover the loss with a tuition increase.

update - it's vPro Enterprise, the like $20 extra or whatever