Back from vacation & DTK status

By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (91 posts) on July 16, 2008 at 7:20 am

Hi everyone. I am very happy to be back from my Intel sabbatical. One of the benefits of working at Intel is a paid 8 week vacation every 7 years. In my case, I was eligible for my sabbatical over 2 years ago, but we did not want to stop working! As part of my vacation I traveled across Canada by train, got caught on the Canadian version of Candid Camera, went up the Toronto CN tower, Chicago Sears tower and Montreal Olympic Tower. Went to Iowa during the floods and had to go to the basement when sirens sounded for a tornado warning. I have pictures and a video.

Now for serious business, as everyone noticed, the Intel AMT DTK has been pulled out of the Intel.com web site. I have gotten many mails about this and trying to catch up on my mail box now. The Intel AMT DTK was pulled out of the web site for internal Intel reasons, the same reasons that caused the DTK to be pulled out the first time. These days, we have been competing with other projects for management time to put it back online. Because it’s not an Intel official project, it’s been low priority and caused the two months delay and, I don’t expect it to be put back soon. Comments from the community have raised the priority of the project and I hope that now that I am back, the process will speed up.

To end on an up note, I was searching Google for references to the DTK and found a video of myself on the CompUSA web site. Yes, I really need to fix my hair next time!

Ylian

Categories: Manageability

Comments (7)

July 16, 2008 9:44 AM PDT


Dan Buhler		 If we don't have DTK, what are we supposed to use?

It appears to be the only decent tool for AMT.
July 17, 2008 1:00 AM PDT

Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel)
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 I think many would agree with that comment. People within Intel have not been deprived of the DTK so, the impact within Intel has not been felt as much as outside.
July 17, 2008 11:54 AM PDT


August Wehrmann		 That's too bad about the DTK - I hope it gets resolved soon.

I hope you enjoyed your trip to Canada - my home and native land!
July 21, 2008 1:57 PM PDT

Maria Camila Gomez-Silva
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 It seems to have been a very nice trip to Canada! I loved the CN Tower but I was really afraid of the glass floor!!

I hope the DTK to be back as soon as possible! For my compny, as an ISV, DTK has been priceless!
July 23, 2008 3:50 AM PDT


Josh boelter		 Glad it was pulled finally, you were randomizing the SDK :)
August 9, 2008 10:48 AM PDT


John		 We're replacing over 2000 computers with units containing the VPro chip. We would like to make use of this technology so that we've setup a few computers in a test environment. We've only managed to go through the BIOS ME setup and now we're stuck because the SDK and the DTK aren't available to download. Is there another official way of getting these tools perhaps through our vendor or manufacturer?
August 10, 2008 6:47 AM PDT

Shmuel Gershon (Intel)
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 John, the SDK is available to download, at http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/articles/eng/1023.htm (don't confuse the SDK and the DTK :) ).
And in order to configure AMT, you can use SCS: http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/articles/eng/1025.htm
SCS is fully capable of configuration, and if you prefer the DTK interface, it'll eventually be available too.

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