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Posts from Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) 
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Gael is an Application Engineer at Intel (since 2000) working primarily with Business Client Technologies. |
What is Intel(r) Secure Key Technology?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on May 14, 2012 at 4:15 pm
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In a nutshell: Intel® Secure Key, was previously code-named Bull Mountain Technology. It is the Intel name for the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures instruction RDRAND and its underlying Digital Random Number Generator (DRNG) hardware implementation. Among other things, the DRNG using the RDRAND instruction is useful for generating high-quality keys for cryptographic protocols. Because [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security, Performance and Optimization, Ultrabook
Tags: Bull Mountain, Digital Random Number Generator, DRNG, Intel Secure Key, rdrand
Updated: Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel AMT) Software Development Kit (SDK) Start Here Guide
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on April 25, 2012 at 10:00 am
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I just wanted to let everyone (who is intersted) know that I have updated the Intel AMT Start Here Guide to include information on Intel AMT release 8 to go along with the platform launch. As this document is one of our most often viewed articles on our Community, if you have any thoughts about [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, Intel AMT, Start Here, vpro
Intel(r) vPro Technology Release 8.0: Processor Requirements
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on April 23, 2012 at 9:55 am
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Intel is launching the latest Ivy Bridge processors supporting Intel (r) AMT Release 8.0. This marks the 3rd Generation Intel(r) Core(tm) i5 and i7 Processors. Sometimes it can be challenging to figure out what systems, on an OEM's website will support Intel(r) AMT features, so here are the ingredients that you must look for: (Intel(r) [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT 8.0, Core i5, Core i7, Ivy Bridge, vpro, vPro technology
Video: Host-Based Provisioning Intel vPro clients using the ACU Wizard
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 29, 2012 at 2:12 pm
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There are two utilities that are packaged with the Intel SCS (Setup and Configuration Software) that are very simple to use and can help you enable Intel AMT quickly. Starting with Intel AMT 6.2, we have what is called "Host-based Provisioning." This means you can now configure and enable Intel AMT directly on the system [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Software Tools
Tags: ACU Wizard, AMT, SCS, vpro
Video: Discovering your Intel® vPro Capabilities using the Intel® SCS Discovery Tool
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 28, 2012 at 2:24 pm
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I have already blogged quite a bit on this tool, but since it is pretty popular I thought I'd turn it into a video as well. Running the SCS Discovery tool is often my first suggestion to our developers who are having questions about why something about Intel AMT is not working for them. In [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Software Tools
Tags: Intel AMT, Intel SCS, SCS Discovery, vpro
Video: How to Configure and Un-configure an Intel® vPro™ technology client (Intel® AMT) inside the MEBx Menus
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 2, 2012 at 4:10 pm
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If you have just purchased and Intel(r) AMT Client and are wondering how to get started managing your new system, you can watch this short ~10 minute video on how to quickly configure Intel AMT. This video also demonstrates how to unconfigure Intel AMT from inside the MEBx environment. Still have questions? Please go to [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Tags: Configuration, Intel AMT, MEBx, Provisioning, unconfiguration, vpro
Video: Taking a look at the IMSS software on an Intel® vPro™ technology client (Intel® AMT)
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 2, 2012 at 9:27 am
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If you have either a Notebook or a Desktop equipped with Intel(R) vPro Technology and you are also working with one of it's components, Intel(R) Active Management Technology, chances are you have the "Intel Management and Security Status" software installed on your system. In this video, we start this software and take a closer look [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security, Software Tools
Video: Navigating the MEBx Menus of an Intel® vPro™ technology client (Intel® AMT)
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 29, 2012 at 8:09 pm
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The first thing you may think about after you have purchased an Intel(r) vPro Platform with Intel(r) AMT Technology, is "Where do I start?" Getting to "know" the MEBx* menus is probably one of the first things you might want to do. This video shows you how to get into them and how you can [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security, Uncategorized
Tags: AMT, BIOS, Configuration, Intel AMT, MEBx, vpro
How to run the SCS Discovery Tool
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on January 24, 2012 at 10:44 am
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Do you have a system that you believe is Intel(R) AMT capable and you are trying to run samples but are getting an errors? Here are some tips on how to make sure your systems *is* Intel AMT capable and is also capable of running the samples in the SDK 1. Download and run the SCS Discovery [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, FW, kvm, SCS Discovery, SOL/IDER
How to Configure your System to Run the IntelvPro PowerShell Module
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on January 20, 2012 at 2:22 pm
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If you are trying to run the vPro PowerShell scripts on your management console but are running into errors, it is possible that either the vPro PowerShell Module has not been installed and/or it is not configured correctly. The following steps demonstrate how to configure your system in order to use this powerful interface. Step [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Tags: PowerShell ISE, TLS.PS1, vPro Power Shell Module
How to create AMT Certificates using the AMT SDK and OpenSSL
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on January 18, 2012 at 4:26 pm
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Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Ajith Illendula and Sudeepti Balepur for sending this guide to me in order to share with our vPro Developers Community. Objectives: 1. Create certificates for Intel AMT TLS encryption using the Intel AMT SDK and OpenSSL 2. Using the TLS.ps1 script, configure non TLS configured Intel AMT systems to use TLS communication [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security, Open Source, Software Tools
Tags: AMT, Certificate, OpenSSL, TLS.PS1
01.2012: Intel(r) AMT Developer's Most Wanted
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on January 11, 2012 at 10:41 am
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What is the Heci and LMS - this is the rolling question week after week. Reseting the ME password. Intel VT-d and how is Intel AMT enabled? Here are the most popular Forum threads and blogs during the last few weeks. Top 15 Forum Threads HP DC7700 (2007) Intel Management Engine Password Reset (2007) AMT Error Message "[UNS] [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: amt disable, HECI DRIVER, Intel AMT, intel management engine, lenovo beep
12.2011: Intel(r) AMT Developer's Most Wanted
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 14, 2011 at 3:36 pm
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From UNS,LMS, SOL/LMS/HECI Drivers, MEI Passwords to Clearing the CMOS, I just ran across a list of our most popular forum threads and blogs and thought it might be good to highlight them. Top 10 Forum Threads (for the last 13 Weeks) AMT Error Message "[UNS] Failed to subscribe to local Intel(R) AMT" lms service cannot connect to [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Tags: CIRA, cmos, HECI, HECI DRIVER, IDER, LMS, password, recovery, SOL, system defense, VT-d
Intel(r) AMT and the Intel(r) ME
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 14, 2011 at 2:08 pm
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Find out what the architecture looks like for Intel(r) AMT. Specifically what is the relationship between the Manageability Engine interface (ME/HECI) and AMT.
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Tags: HECI, HECI DRIVER, Intel Active Management Technology, Intel AMT, intel management engine, Intel ME, intel(r) management engine interface, manageability engine, management engine
Gael's Intel(r) vPro(tm) Technology Knowledge Base
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 13, 2011 at 10:15 am
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I'm playing around with knowledgebase providers. Tell me what you think about this and if it is useful. Also let me know if you want to participate in adding articles to it. Here is a handy link to my My Intel vPro Knowledge Base
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, Bull Mountain, kvm, MEI Driver, vpro, wmi
Intel(r) AMT KVM not Working
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 8, 2011 at 4:45 pm
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What do you do when you are ready to get started working with Intel Active Management Technology and you are excited about the recent inclusion of a software based (AMT) KVM feature and you can't get it to work? A while back I wrote a blog --> HERE <-- to help out with determining which [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, graphics, Integrated Graphics, Intel AMT, kvm
WMI: Provider Not Found
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 2, 2011 at 3:15 pm
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Do you have a system that you believe is Intel(R) AMT capable and you are trying to run the WMI samples but are getting an error? Here are some tips on how to make sure your systems *is* Intel AMT capable and is also capable of running the WMI samples supported by the WMI Provider. [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, Intel AMT, Intel_ME namespace, MEProv.dll, wmi, WMI Provider
Communication error between application and Intel® ME module (FW Update Client)
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on November 22, 2011 at 4:25 pm
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If you have experienced this error message, or one like it, this blog may help you to understand what might be going on. It is likely that your system may not have the right Manageability Engine Interface drivers installed (MEI or also known as HECI drivers.) First let us cover what are the key Intel Technologies that [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Tags: active management technology, AMT, anti-theft, Anti-Theft FW Version, Firmware, FW version, HECI DRIVER, Intel Active Management Technology, intel amt driver, Intel AT, intel management engine interface, intel(r) management engine interface, MEI Driver
The Keys to Intel vPro Technology: HECI MEI LMS SOL UNS
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on October 24, 2011 at 10:12 am
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It seems that our Developers are spending a lot of time looking for information about HECI drivers. With vPro being around for many years now (we are on our 7th revision going on 8) I was wondering if this piece of Active Management Technology is still a puzzle to developers. In the spirit of figuring [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: HECI, HECI DRIVER, Intel Active Management Technology, Intel AMT, intel(r) management engine interface, linux, LMS, MEI, SLED 11, SOL, uns, vpro
When the vPro Universe Collides with Other People and goes "Fractal"
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on October 21, 2011 at 2:31 pm
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This is one of those things in life that you probably don't know what it is and why it is important until you need it. If you are part of the "Other People" then you don't care. You should probably go find something else to read, in that case. But let me just say, in [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, anti-theft, Communication Error, Gael Hofemeir, HECI, LMS, MEI, SOL, vpro
Find out about Intel's new RdRand Instruction.
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on June 22, 2011 at 8:38 pm
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Previously refered to as "Bull Mountain", the RdRand instruction will present itself on the upcoming "Ivy Bridge" platform coming out early 2012. The RdRand instruction paves the way to fast, reliable entropy generated on the processor resulting in highly robust random numbers! What is a Random Number Generator (RNG)? It is a utility or device that produces a sequence of [...]
Category: Academic, Manageability & Security, Software Tools
Tags: Bull Mountain, CSPRNG, DRNG, entorpy, nondeterministic, rdrand, RNG, robust
New!! Updated Intel(r) AMT Linux Drivers
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on June 1, 2011 at 9:22 am
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Linux/AMT Developers have no doubt been waiting a long time for this. Updated MEI and LMS drivers for Linux. They can be download HERE. (and below as well) Are you a Linux Developer interested in writing tools for supporting Intel AMT? We would love to hear from you. Here is what these drivers do: Intel® Active Management [...]
Category: Academic, Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: AMTLINUX
Not just 1, but 2 flavors of the Manageability DTK
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on June 1, 2011 at 8:34 am
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I just learned something new today. There are 2 versions of the Manageability DTKs out there! Most Manageability Developers have been downloading the DTK from the Manageability and Security Developers Community. I was just poking around our forum questions and found out that our friend Ylian has posted an Open Source version! Why two? Let's [...]
Category: Academic, Manageability & Security, Open Source
Intel® vPro™ Technology with Intel® AMT - what to look for.
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 21, 2011 at 11:23 am
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Update: The processors listed in this blog may be outdated and more may actually be available. Check this website for an updated list of Intel AMT capable processors. Usually when we launch a new vPro platform, I write a blog post that has information about where to get them and what to look for. This [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT 7 capabable system, AMT 7 Processor, Intel AMT 7.0
Intel® AMT Developers, SOAP, and Migration Utilities
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 18, 2011 at 11:42 am
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Way back in November of '10, I wrote a blog about urging Intel AMT Devleopers to stop using SOAP. The reason being that the APIs availabe in the Intel AMT Software Development kit were moving in the direction of WS-MAN and that SOAP was now phased out with Intel AMT 7.0. If you are one of [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Discover the new Intel® AMT SCS 7.0!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 18, 2011 at 10:20 am
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Now that the Intel® SCS 7.0 is available on the Manageablity and Security Community, let's take a look under the hood! Way back in November I wrote a blog about what was new in SCS 7.0. Today I want to introduce our readers to the new downloads that are now available along with Intel SCS 7.0 and to also provide [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Cross-Platform KVM with vPro: Get Java-tized.
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 15, 2011 at 8:14 am
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If you are wanting to exploit the powers of Intel® Active Management Technology across multiple platforms (linux distros, Windows) you are probably looking for ways to do this using Java. For quite some time we have had the Intel® WS_Management Java Client Library available on our Manageability Community. Let me first introduce this library in [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Get a “nudge” from Intel AMT; A Wake-up Call for your Sleepy Corporation
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 21, 2010 at 1:58 pm
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It's all about Green these days. Large corporations want to power down non-essential systems when they are not in use. And then they want to power them all up when they are needed. Sounds easy enough. But nothing is that simple. When networks are involved there are many factors that contribute to how much time is [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
A brand-new Manageability Developer Tool Kit (Version 6.0.10314.2.) Just in time for the Holidays!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 10, 2010 at 4:14 pm
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This blog looks a lot like the download page for the Manageability DTK (except for the "green" part.) I know - cheap of me to cut and paste but it says everything just fine. Note that in order to get to the tutorial videos, please visit the download page here. The links to the videos [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
The Intel(r) SCS 7.0 - here is what's new
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on November 22, 2010 at 10:48 am
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The Intel(r) SCS is getting updated! I wanted to use this blog to highlight some of the changes and to provide a quick cheat-sheet for things that you will need to know when you start using it and then managing your Intel® AMT systems. New: Host Based Configuration. Now we can locally configure the AMT device [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Intel® AMT Developers: Please stop using SOAP!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on November 2, 2010 at 8:37 am
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Of course by that I mean that moving forward with developing applications for Intel® Active Management Technology you should no longer be including Simple Object Access Protocol as a basis for your software implementation. Instead, you should use the WS-MAN interface that is provided in the Intel AMT Software Development Kit. A little history and [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Intel® IDF2010: Were you there?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on September 21, 2010 at 1:50 pm
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This year I got the pleasure of attending our Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. I was even able to attend some great vPro sessions, so I thought I’d write about them and provide the link that you can use to see the presentations yourself. Think of this as the next best thing to being [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMTDISCOVERY, AMTKVM, embedded, IDF2010, vpro
Intel(r) vPro developers: What do YOU want to emulate?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on September 3, 2010 at 9:44 am
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Many developers know that we used to provide an emulator for Intel(r) Active Management Technology inside our Software Developer Toolkit. Unfortunately, we stopped including it and this was not good news to a lot of our developers. So why would anyone need an emulator for Intel(R) AMT? Well there are quite a few reasons. I [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, emulation
Living happily ever after in the fairy tale of provisioning.
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on June 11, 2010 at 9:48 am
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Once upon a time, a fair-skinned princess opened a box from her favorite OEM (with the help of many little blue birds chirping away and also some very cute mice and squirrels….) To her surprise, it was a system equipped with Intel® Active Management Technology. My, was she excited, but before she could manage this [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMTPROVISIONING, AMTSCS, GAEL HOFEMEIER
The new and improved Intel(r) SCS 6.0 - read about it here.
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 22, 2010 at 11:54 am
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Along with our launch of the latest Intel(r) vPro Platforms (Intel(r) AMT 6.0) we have updated the Manageability Community with the newest versions of the Intel(r) Setup and Configuration Server (SCS.) Intel® SCS 6.0 includes the following major changes from previous versions The Intel SCS no longer uses or requires installation of the Internet Information Services [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
What brings you to our Manageability Developer's Community?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 15, 2010 at 9:57 am
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I just wanted to let our community know that we have a new poll avaiable for taking (it's free!) What brings you to our Manageability Developer's Community? If you click on the poll link, you will only be able to see what's in the poll - it won't let you actually vote (I tried....) You [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMTPOLL
Calling all Geeks! Get your fuzzy slippers and some popcorn -it's KVM time!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 10, 2010 at 2:53 pm
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Intel® vPro™ technology now adds the capability to do KVM Remote Control out of band. Now an IT Professional can remotely control the keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) of a system with Intel AMT 6.0. For those of you who have been anxiously awaiting the release of Intel(r) Active Management Technology 6.0 which includes KVM Remote [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Manageability Community: What's up?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 4, 2010 at 12:16 pm
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I thought it might be interesting to take our pulse once in a while. Maybe I'll do this weekly. Or monthly. ( That is, if anyone is really interested in seeing this kind of information.) Events: On March 3, we hosted a Virtual Seminar announcing our Intel(r) AMT 6.0 release and new features. Our attendence [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
New High Level API for Intel AMT but where's the docs?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 26, 2010 at 9:08 am
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For now, you can get them from this blog. As we are busily updating our manageability site with Intel(r) AMT 6.0 content, we were able to get a hold of the latest High Level API package as well. This drop does not have any new features from the old drop, but it has been validated. [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMTHLAPI
What's new with Provisioning and Intel(r) AMT 6.0
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 18, 2010 at 3:33 pm
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Well, first of all we no longer have "Small Business Mode" as a provisioning model. The available modes are "Manual" and "Enterprise." Note that this is a change only for Intel(r) AMT 6.0 and beyond. Here are the details on Manual Configuration and things you need to know (it's not a whole lot different than [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Great News! The Intel(r) QST SDK is now Public!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 18, 2010 at 8:45 am
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For years, we have been receiving questions about the Intel Quiet System Technology Software Development Kit (See why we use acronyms?) on our Manageability Forum and we have had to tell folks that it isn't public (sorry!) Well now it is and you can download it from the link below. You can also ask questions [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
Get your new Manageability Developer's Toolkit HERE
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 17, 2010 at 2:18 pm
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It's been a while since we have seen a refresh on the Manageability DTK out on our Manageability Community. We are pleased to announce that you may now download the latest release, supporting Intel(r) AMT 6.0. Here's the info - and do watch the videos that are at the bottom of the landing page. Title: [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Take a sneak-peak at the new Intel(r) AMT SDK documentation
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 11, 2010 at 2:38 pm
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We not only have a new release (6.0) for Intel(r) AMT but we have a brand new format for the Software Development Kit documentation (to be available soon.) In this blog I will introduce the blogging community to our new format. We hope that our AMT Developers will appreciate the new look and feel (over the old [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
"Spec"-ulating Intel(r) AMT 6.0 - what to look for
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 11, 2010 at 11:48 am
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The long awaited Intel(r) AMT 6.0 is here! For more information on what's we will be doing in our Manageability Community over the next few weeks, take a look at Lance Atencio's Blog. When shopping for an Intel(r) AMT 6.0*system, you will need to verify that it has the right ingredients. The table below shows [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Intel® AMT: What's new on our Community? (WSMan Doc!)
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on October 19, 2009 at 9:05 am
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Hello out there! I just wanted to let our Community know that we have refreshed some of our WSMan documentation on our Manageability Community! Did you know that WSMan will soon replace the legacy SOAP interface in the Intel® AMT SDK? This means that new features are no longer offered along with SOAP APIs and [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMTWSMAN
Intel® AMT and Remote Provisioning (aka Zero Touch)
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on October 7, 2009 at 8:20 am
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Lately I've been playing with the Intel® SCS Lite utility to provision my system. Last week I tried it out using a provisioning certificate (Remote Provisioning.) I thought it might be useful to post the steps that are needed in order to set up the network and certs. In my environment, I run the SCS Service [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMTSCS
Intel® AMT Firmware Versions 5.1 and 5.0 Message
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on October 2, 2009 at 4:29 pm
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Intel released its 5.0 firmware prior to the publication of the final DASH 1.0 specification. After reviewing the final version of the DASH 1.0 spec, we adjusted our firmware to be wholly compliant to the specification. We published the compliant version as AMT5.1. There are minor differences between DASH API calls in AMT 5.0 and AMT [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMTWSMAN
Intel® AMT: Using Tags to search our Forum
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on September 16, 2009 at 12:59 pm
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Those of you who have used our Manageability Forum might have some good advice for Software Developers trying to find answers for their Intel AMT questions. Chances are, if you are having an issue or can't get something to work, someone else has also run into the same problem and there is a similar post [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMTALL
Intel® AMT: Certificate-Based Provisioning (AKA ZTC) in 4 easy steps
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on August 18, 2009 at 1:03 pm
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Since I am tired of digging through old e-mails for instructions on the steps involved in successfully provisioning an AMT client using Certificates (PKI) I thought it would be a good time to just blog it. At a very high level, the flow is as follows: (Did I mention that each of the 4 easy steps have [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMTSCS
New Download Available: Intel® AMT 5.1.1 SDK
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on August 12, 2009 at 1:42 pm
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Hi - It's been a while since we talked about the latest Intel® AMT Software Development Kit. Not a whole lot has changed moving from Intel® AMT 5.0 to Intel® AMT 5.1.1. For AMT 5.1.1 the changes were mostly bug fixes. For more information regarding known issues, please refer to the readme file in the [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security, Site News & Announcements
Tags: AMTHLAPI, AMTSDK
Finding Intel® AMT vPro Solutions to buy or to try!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on August 7, 2009 at 12:18 pm
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Are you looking for real-life Intel® AMT applications that are now available to purchase (or at least to try out?) We have recently put together a Wiki page on the vPro Expert Center that lists some! Here is a snapshot of what it looks like: Our goal here is to bring attention to Software Vendors who [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security
What happened to our Search Tool?? Everyone needs to know a Gina B!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on July 13, 2009 at 9:52 am
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Why? Well you just do. Gina B. knows everything from what to use to clean off all that icky and dangerous stuff that comes on our fruit and veggies to where on our Forum do we find our favorite Search tool that disappeared a month or so ago. Here is what it looks like - it lets you pick which [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security, Site News & Announcements
Tags: AMT SEARCH
How do *You* get the Intel® AMT info that you need?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on July 9, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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One of the things we are always trying to figure out on our Manageability Community is how does the community like to get their information. This poll asked the community where they find their best answers to their Intel AMT questions (note: not where they would *like* to find their best answers - which I [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Poll
Intel® AMT: Getting UUID via WMI
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on June 12, 2009 at 12:40 pm
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We are often asked how we can get the UUID of a system outside of having AMT enabled on a system. The problem here being that sometimes there are AMT systems in an environment that have never been enabled (this is sad, I know...) and for whatever reason they many not have the ME/LMS drivers installed, [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMTUUID, AMTWMI
Intel® AMT Remote Diagnosis/Re-Imaging. Are we stuck with text-based tools?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on May 20, 2009 at 11:10 am
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The answer is "No." One of the more common topics on our Manageability Forum is SOL/IDE-R (Serial-Over-LAN and IDE-Redirect.) SOL and IDE-R are features that are normally used in the "Diagnosis and Repair" Use Cases in order to remotely load an OS with a diagnostic utility onto an Intel AMT client that is in need [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security, Site News & Announcements
Tags: BartPE, Disk Re-imaging, graphics, SOL/IDE-R, Text, WinPE
Wow - only 4 responses?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on April 23, 2009 at 9:02 am
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This seems to be my favorite word lately. Just found another place to use it. I was just looking at the number of responses we have received so far for our latest poll on the Manageability Developer's Community. This poll has been out there for weeks and yet only 4 people have responded (probably all [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: groundswell, Intel AMT, lurker, Social Network
What is "Standard Manageability?"
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 27, 2009 at 9:21 am
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We had an interesting forum question the other day. A customer said he/she has an Intel® AMT 5.0.1 system and could not figure out why he/she was getting error messages when trying to make calls related to the Audit Log (or Access Monitor.) This customer also ran the "GetCodeVersion" API to get the SKU information [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT 3.2, AMT 5.0, Q45, Standard Manageability, Upgradeable
SCS 5.1 is Now Available on Manageability Developers Community
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 13, 2009 at 7:59 am
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Hi Everyone, I just wanted to let you know that the 5.1 version of the Setup and Configuration Service is now available for download on the Manageability Developer's Community. Note that this is the full-blown version of the Setup and Configuration Service and is not associated with SCS 6.0, which is, at this time the "Light [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: DASH, Hostname characters, SCS 5.1, Wake on Wireless, Wireless SX
And the Lenovo T400 said: "Beep.Beep-Beep-Beep.Beep-Beep-Beep.Beep!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 23, 2009 at 2:30 pm
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I found myself in a strange situation with my T400. I was trying to provision it and suddenly I could not get into the Manageability Engine (ME) with any of the normal passwords. Actually this happened twice to me on this system. I looked for a way to reset the ME to factory settings from the [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security, Mobility, Site News & Announcements
Tags: 1331 beep, Clear CMOS, Lenovo T400, Problems with ME, Provisioning, Series of Beeps
Intel® AMT: What you need to know about SOL/IDE-R and SMB
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 19, 2009 at 10:54 am
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We recently made available to our Intel AMT Developers the first version of the SCS (Setup and Configuration Server) Lite tool. Eventually this tool will morph into a full blown setup and configuration server that supports all the infrastructure that SCS 5.0 now supports. This "Lite" version, however, is very "Lite" as the name implies. It does not [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Enterprise, IDER, MEBx, Redirection Port, SCS Lite, SCS Profile, SMB, SOL
Just for YOU: Manageability Dev Community Group on Facebook
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 18, 2009 at 12:41 pm
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Just wanted to let our Developers (and Intel® AMT Stalkers) know that we now have a group on Facebook just for YOU! The new group is called "Intel® Manageability Developer Community"; it is owned by Ajay Mungara and Monitored by Moi. It is an open group, so all you need to do is join. I know that a [...]
Category: Academic, Manageability & Security
Tags: Facebook, Facebook Group, Manageability Developers Community, privacy
POLL Results: Intel® AMT Pain Points
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 9, 2009 at 8:54 am
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About 3 weeks ago we put a poll out on our Manageability Forum and our Manageability Community home page asking Intel® AMT developers if they thought Intel® AMT was difficult for them to use. I can't say that the answers were shocking to me. Had I taken the poll I probably would have ranked the options exactly [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT Poll, Hurts, Provisioning
WW05: Intel® AMT Developers: Manageability Forum Question
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 5, 2009 at 2:12 pm
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It was my week to watch the Manageability Forum and things were very quiet. I decided to mix things up a bit post a question to our developers. My question was simple: "Intel® AMT Developers: What are you doing?" We got some great responses and so I thought it would be good to recap them in a [...]
Category: Manageability & Security, Site News & Announcements
Tags: Manageability Forum, OS Discovery, SCS 6.0, SCS Lite, WinRM, WSMAN
Intel® AMT and Perl - Get your scripts here!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on January 14, 2009 at 11:52 am
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Hi there! We just got a hold of some Intel® AMT Scripts written in Perl. Take a look and let us know if you find them useful! Overview Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) Perl Scripts package contains scripts designed for ISVs developing manageability applications and for system integrators or administrators who are looking for scripting capabilities. The scripts [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: 3PDS, Admin Password, Domain, Error Log, Hardware Asset, Network Settings, Perl, Power State
OUCH! What are the most painful parts of Intel® AMT to implement??
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on January 7, 2009 at 10:13 am
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Ok... Now that I have your attention, I just wanted to let you know that we have posted our first ever Poll in our Manageability Developer's Community Forum page - here. (Look at the Right Hand Side of the page and you may have to scroll down to see it.) The purpose of this poll [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Features, Implementation, Poll
Now Available - Manageability Developer Tool Kit 06.08340.x
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 16, 2008 at 11:23 am
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NEW FOR THE HOLIDAYS!!! Please download these tools and give us feedback on the enhancements and bug fixes. Your feedback is very important to us and helps us define our upcoming workload. Get the latest Manageability Developer Tool Kit here!! Windows* based utilities included in the kit: Utility Name Description / Use Manageability Commander Tool [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Commander, Director, DTK, Manageability Developer Toolkit
Intel® AMT 5.0 - Where can Joe the Plumber find these systems?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 3, 2008 at 1:54 pm
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Joe the Plumber has already found Intel® AMT 4.0 systems to purchase, but now he has decided to go look for some Intel AMT 5.0 systems. Having gone through the exercises with his Intel AMT 4.0 systems, this went a little faster. He already had some links from the Intel web sites and he also [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Intel AMT 5.0, vpro
Intel® AMT: Remote Provisioning - what happens there?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on November 25, 2008 at 2:16 pm
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Today I have posted a few blogs about the provisioning process with respect to Intel® AMT. But really, what most ISVs want to know about is how to do this without touching the Intel AMT system - after all, there may be hundreds, if not thousands of these in an environment, and who wants to [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Certificate Hash, Intel AMT, One Time Password, PKI-CH, Remote Configuration
Intel® AMT: From Factory Mode to Setup Mode - a 4 step process
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on November 25, 2008 at 12:44 pm
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In the blogs that I wrote prior to this blog, I talked about some of the basics required for provisioning an Intel® AMT system. This blog will cover what is happening when an AMT System goes from Factory Mode to Setup Mode - you will be able to see that if this transition does not [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: DNS Option 15, Factory Mode, Hello Packet, Intel AMT, ProvisionServer, Setup Mode
Intel® AMT: Mutual Authentication Provisioning in 7 easy steps!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on November 25, 2008 at 12:20 pm
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As I was looking through the "Developer's Guide to the Sample Setup and Configuration Application, I found that it actually has some good examples of the various ways one can provision an Intel® AMT system. This post covers the steps that are taken in the Setup and Configuration Sample that is located in the Intel® [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Certificate, Hello Packet, Intel AMT, Mutual Authentication, SCA, SCS
Intel AMT Provisioning: The 3 Hellos and the 3 Modes
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on November 25, 2008 at 9:44 am
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I was recently going through the Developers Guide to the Sample Setup and Configuration document that is in the Intel® AMT Software Development Kit. I found some good reference material that I thought perhaps our developers could use as they are trying to figure out "What the heck is going on in the provisioning process??" The [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Hello Packet, Intel AMT, PID-PPS, PKI-CH, Provisioning, SCA, SDK, Setup and Configuration
How to test CIRA in 9 easy steps (Client Initiated Remote Access)
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on November 13, 2008 at 3:57 pm
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We are starting to get questions on how to test CIRA, one of the new features in the Intel® AMT 5.0 SDK. Specifically, how to test it. I have included in this blog steps that I have documented on testing this feature (note that Ajith Illendula is the guy who designed the lab - but [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT 5.0, CIRA, Fast Call for Help, MPS, vPro Enabled Gateway
Do you know where your Intel® AMT systems are?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on November 3, 2008 at 9:38 am
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One of the questions we get quite often on our Manageability Forum is: "How do I programmaticly determine if a system on my network is Intel® AMT capable?" This is a very good question because we can't simply tell them to call some API that would return the answer (unless the system has AMT enabled, then [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT Version, iAMT Scan, Provisioned, Registry
"Joe the Plumber" continues his search for Intel® AMT 4.0 capable Notebooks
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on October 22, 2008 at 11:59 am
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Hint: Intel® AMT 4.0 is: Intel WiFi 5100 A/G/N or Intel WiFi 5300 A/G/N Chipset: M45 Series Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Check out the Intel® Centrino™ 2 with vPro™ Technology website to match up with the correct CPU Ids Joe's shopping got cut short yesterday due to an exploding sink emergency. Today he has [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT 4.0, Core 2 Duo, Mobil, vpro
What if "Joe the Plumber" wants to purchase an Intel® vPro PC?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on October 21, 2008 at 8:42 am
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Hey. It could happen. Besides, maybe "Joe" isn't really a plumber. Joe is most likely a Mavericky Intel® AMT developer. Today I'm going to pick on Intel AMT version 4.0 for a couple reasons. 1- if Joe is really a plumber, he isn't going to to want to lug around a desktop all day (although [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT 2.6, AMT 4.0, Intel Centrino 2 with vPro
New with Intel® AMT 4.0/5.0: "Fast Call for Help" and "Remote PC Assist" (aka CIRA)
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on October 9, 2008 at 1:54 pm
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We recently published the latest Intel® AMT SDK on our Manageability Developer's Community website. This version of the Software Development Kit supports both the 4.0(Mobile) and the 5.0(Desktop) versions of Intel® AMT. However. Should one download the SDK and start looking through it one might realize there is nothing in there about some of our [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: CIRA, Fast Call for Help, Intel SDK, Remote PC Assist
Will I get Sweaty at a vPro Developer's Bootcamp?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on September 23, 2008 at 1:26 pm
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And will the Bootcamp drill-master say mean things about my mother because she does not have an Intel® AMT equipped PC at home? So what exactly is this Bootcamp that we are putting on? Well, to be more specific, this is an Intel® Core™ 2 processor with vPro™ Technology Bootcamp. We will be presenting all [...]
Category: Academic, Events, Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security, Mobility, Site News & Announcements
Tags: Access Monitor, Audit Log, Bootcamp, Fast Call for Help, MS NAP, vpro, Wireless Management
Intel® AMT DTK - Answer to "Hair Loss" or is it the "Antichrist"
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on August 19, 2008 at 10:50 pm
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Ok so I'm at Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco and I'm sitting at an Intel Software Network sponsored dinner. All sorts of things are being discussed from "I can't believe I didn't get fired after that one blog" to "Hair Loss. " I then asked our very upper management if it would be OK [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability & Security, Open Source, Site News & Announcements
SCS 3.3.1 Hot Fix Release Now Available
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on May 28, 2008 at 12:16 pm
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We have a new (3.3.1) Hot Fix on the the Manageability Community Site for the Intel Setup and Config Server (SCS). This Hot fix can be downloaded here. This release has the following fixes: Fix of AD issue - When the SCS creates Active Directory objects; it performs all operations on one domain controller, even [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Enterprise Mode, SCS, Setup and configuration Server
Intel® SCS 3.2.2 is now available for download
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on April 22, 2008 at 3:24 pm
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SCS 3.2.2 includes the following new feature: The user can now type-in the SQL server username and password, to address their own Data Base strong password requirements. Note that this change is NOT included in the 3.3 Version of the SCS Use SCS 3.2.2 only if you have a Strong Password requirement for the SQL data base user [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, SCS 3.2.2, SQL, Strong Password
Hot Fix for Intel® AMT SDK (3.0.2)
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on April 14, 2008 at 11:55 am
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We have updated the Intel Manageability Community Website with a Hot Fix for the Intel® SDK. This hot fix contains the following fixes/updates: Memory Leak in the Storage Library Redirection Library fix: SOL Boot can hang the Intel® AMT system Various documentation corrections in the Network Interface Guide and the Developers Guide to the Sample Setup and Configuration [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: hot fix 3.0.2, Intel SDK, memory leak
Is Intel® AMT Dash Compliant?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on April 11, 2008 at 9:24 am
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This blog is based on a recent Forum question regarding the compliance of DASH within Intel® AMT. It turns out that this user ran a program called SIMFIRE (developed by AMD) against an Intel® AMT 3.0 capable system and it reported out that no, we are not compliant. So I thought it might be a [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Getting to know WS-MAN a little better
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 24, 2008 at 1:39 pm
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Now that everyone (I'm sure) has started developing their Intel® AMT applications to use the WS-Man interface - I have a few configuration tips here. WinRM service does not start automatically on all compatible OS's - make sure the service is running: Starts automatically on Windows Server 2008 Must be started manually on Windows Vista [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Configuration, Installation, Intel AMT, Remote Management, WS-MAN
Intel® AMT Remote Access: An Overview
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 19, 2008 at 1:37 pm
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This is my third post on Intel AMT Local/Remote access. My first post provided an overview of how they differ and then my last post covered just the Local Access. This post focuses on just the Remote Access. Like the blog on Local Access, most of the information in this blog comes directly from the [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Intel AMT, Local API, Realm, Remote API, Service
Intel® AMT Local Access: How does it work?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 19, 2008 at 11:42 am
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This is my second Blog on Intel AMT Local/Remote access. My first blog post provided an overview of how they differ. This post focuses on just the Local Access. Most of the information in this blog comes directly from the Overview.pdf located in the Intel AMT SDK. So here is everything that I'm sure you wanted to know about [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: HECI, Intel AMT, LMS, Local, Local Realm
Intel® AMT Developers: What are *your* roadblocks?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 18, 2008 at 4:44 pm
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I'm the kind of person who likes to see results and the numbers associated with them. Since I have been very involved in supporting the Manageability Community, I am always trying to figure out what kind of impact our Manageability Community has had on the Intel AMT Developers that are using us as a resource during their development [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: development, Help, Intel AMT, road block
Hello? Port 9971, Hello?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 7, 2008 at 2:05 pm
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A couple weeks ago I ran into an interesting problem. I was not getting the "Hello" packet from my AMT Client while trying to use the AMT Director (from the DTK) to provision one of my systems. Quite a bit of time was spent troubleshooting this. I was not trying to do anything fancy - [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: Director, DTK, Hello, SCS
PID/PPS, ZTC, and Hashes... Oh My!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 7, 2008 at 1:38 pm
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This is another blog post that goes back to one of our Manageability Forum questions. I will attempt to cover the basics of Zero Touch Configuration in this blog. As we all know, we can enjoy Zero Touch Configuration (ZTC) using the Remote Configuration Tool which is part of the Intel SCS (Setup and Configuration [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, Certificate, Hash, PID/PPS, ZTC
Information about Intel(r) AMT PET Events
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on March 6, 2008 at 3:58 pm
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Intel AMT Remote Management provides always-available access to event logs of the following: PC Sensors, effectors, and other non-volatile data. It also has the ability to generate out-of-band alerts (PETs) based on sensor events.Platform Event Trap is a specification defining the format for managed systems to alert a remote console. Knowledge of deciphering these Events [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT, IMPI, PET Events, Remote Management
Intel AMT 3.2 3PDS Space Allocation Issue
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 28, 2008 at 3:20 pm
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Hi - this is just a quick post to let Intel® AMT 3.2 developers know that Intel AMT 3.2 has a known issue where only 64KB for 3PDS space can be specified (it should be 192KB per Business.) This has been fixed for the next version of AMT. Note that this is firmware (not an SDK issue.)
Category: Manageability & Security
Remote Configuration Tool (RCT 3.3.1) Now Available
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 21, 2008 at 12:36 pm
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RCT 3.3.1.0 contains a small modification to the previous RCT releases - now the RCT sends hello packets even if the RCT cannot send the Intel® AMT configuration properties to the SCS (Setup and Configration Server). This modification is useful if the RCT is used to emulate hello packets to the SCS 3.0. Click here [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: active management technology, AMT, RCT, Remote Configuration Tool, SCS
Intel® AMT: A Blurb about the Adoption of WSMAN
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on January 16, 2008 at 1:49 pm
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This blog post, I mean blurb, speaks to all Intel® AMT developers who are writing manageability software using the Legacy Network Interface Samples that are currently part of the SDK (folks may have noticed that there are now WS-MAN samples in the SDK as well and those samples were not added just for the fun of it. :) They were [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: WSMAN EOI LEGACY NETWORK INTERFACE Sample
I forgot my "ME" Password!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on January 9, 2008 at 12:11 pm
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We recently received a question on our Manageability Forum asking how would we reset the Intel® AMT / "ME" password to factory defaults in the case where it may have been forgotten. Well, as with most BIO's there is an option to "Unprovision" and restore AMT/ME back to the factory defaults. As with most BIOS's this [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
The ABCs of Intel® AMT/ME Passwords
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 18, 2007 at 11:13 am
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What is a ME Password? Well if you have to ask, you probably don't need to be in this blog post. :-) I was just doing some research on AMT vs ME passwords and here is what I found out. When we first get our Intel® AMT systems and we are setting them up for the first [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Tags: AMT Password, API, ME Password, Network Interface Guide
Is your Second Life flashing before your eyes?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 17, 2007 at 8:56 am
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I have been monitoring a couple Blogs with their respective comments on Second Life lately - and why is this? It's because I have had some issues getting some of my systems to connect. I find out there are many issues with Second Life and certain Graphics Cards (Intel graphics cards, mostly.) There are a [...]
Category: Academic, Graphics & Media
Tags: Intel Graphics, Second Life, Support
Environment Detection: Do-It-Yourself Lab
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 12, 2007 at 3:38 pm
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What is this? Recently a couple collegues and I took this Environment Detection lab to an Intel® AMT training event and delivered it to a group of engineers supporting AMT. Since we got such great feedback from the course we decided to post it on our Manageability Site (here). Start with taking a look a the [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
There *WAS* a hack for the Intel 965 Chipset and Second Life
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 11, 2007 at 12:47 pm
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Recently I wrote a blog here that described a change that could be made to the settings.xml file setting 'UseOcclusions' to FALSE, therefore allowing us to connect to Second Life. This worked great for most of us, however, it seems SL has released a new veiwer that causes this "fix" to not work. The following is [...]
Category: Academic, Graphics & Media, Manageability & Security
All about Wireless Profiles in Intel® AMT
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 11, 2007 at 8:28 am
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Since we have been receiving a number of questions regarding how AMT deals with Wireless Profiles - here is some information that I found in the SDK docs - hopefully it will answer some of those questions. Wireless connections operate at two levels - the wireless network interface and the interface driver executing on the [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
NAC Environment: Errata Found in AMT 3.0 Firmware
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on December 7, 2007 at 12:39 pm
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I'm just blogging this to help get the word out. We have posted the Errata Doc here on our Download site (scroll down to the bottom of the page.) The following errata was found in the Intel AMT Release 3.0 Firmware: In a NAC environment where an authorization failure VLAN is configured, if credentials become invalid after a [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
There is a hack! (for Second Life and the Intel 965 Chipset)
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on November 29, 2007 at 10:35 am
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There are hacks for everything, right? Well I have this brand new HP 6910p with the Intel 965 Express chipset running Vista and I could not get onto Second Life. Everytime I tried to connect, it would ask me if I wanted music and then it would crash. Well I thought, maybe my HP doesn't [...]
Category: Academic, Graphics & Media
Now Available: Intel® SCS (Version 3.2.1 Hotfix)
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on November 28, 2007 at 8:31 am
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We have just updated the Manageability Downloads with the latest update for the Intel® SCS (Setup and Configuration Service) Version 3.2.1 Hotfix (Build 3.2.1.2). Here is what is new in this release: The behavior of the SCS SOAP API command GetNextServiceNewAMTProperties() is the same as it was in SCS 3.0 Fixed a memory leak in SCS SOAP [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Want to mess with the Registry??! Go Ahead and Turn on that SCS Debug Log
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on November 27, 2007 at 9:18 am
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We get a lot of questions on the Manageability Forum regarding problems encountered with Successfully configuring an AMT Client using the Intel® SCS. One thing that can be done to help out your debugging as well as ours is by simply enabling the SCS Debug Log. Here is how to do this: Run regedit (from a [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Strong AMT ME Passwords and Other Shades of Gray
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on November 8, 2007 at 2:02 pm
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Well we all know that the Intel® AMT Manageability Engine's password must be changed from it's factory default (admin) to a "strong password," correct? So what kind of strong password would that be? We had a post on our forum this morning where a user tried something similar to "Location_1" which looks to be strong. It has an [...]
Category: Manageability & Security
Environment Detection (New Errata) - one more blog...
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on August 28, 2007 at 8:38 am
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We are refreshing the 3.0 SDK Errata doc to include the following Errata concerning two of the Environment Detection APIs: SetEnvironmentDetection -- There is mismatch between documentation and WSDL. NULL should be replaced with empty array (in documentation). Calling SetEnvironmentDetection with null parameter throws a SOAP exception. In order to disable the service set EnvironmentDetectionDomainType to [...]
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Is it time for my Sabbatical yet?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on August 22, 2007 at 10:39 am
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11/5/2007: A lot of folks have been asking about what I've been doing for the last two months. While I was out, I was updating my Flickr account as well as my Getjelous account. Note that "Getjelous" only allows up to 40 pictures so that is why I had to move over to Flickr (I [...]
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Environment Detection and it's "Easy Button"
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on August 22, 2007 at 10:23 am
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Ok - I just put "Easy Button" in my title in order to get blog hits from everyone out there looking for one. I'm not below using cheap tricks for blog counts! One of the new AMT features for cPro systems that I have been playing with lately is the Environment Detection and VPN routing [...]
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New Errata Doc posted for the Intel® AMT 3.0 SDK
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on August 16, 2007 at 8:39 am
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If you are currently using the Intel 3.0 SDK, you may want to check out the latest Errata document that has been posted to the download site. This document contains 4 errata descriptions for the 3.0 SDK. Two have to do with the Developer's Guide to the Sample Setup and Configuration documentation, one with the [...]
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What do *you* want to do in Second Life
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on August 16, 2007 at 8:19 am
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We seem to be in a brand new era in our work places. Our work places are moving into this thing called Second Life. I was curious about it so I got an account and tried to connect. I could not. I gave up. I figured that I was too busy with my First Life [...]
Category: Academic
Intel SCS 3.1: Missing ADDN Attribute Error Msg
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on August 15, 2007 at 11:35 am
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Aug152007: If you are working with the 3.1 release of the Intel Setup and Configuration Service and you are getting this error, here is why: If the AD (active directory) OU (organizational unit) is NULL, an error will occur and provisioning will be unsuccessful. The workaround is to put something (anything) in there even if AD [...]
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The Proper Quarantine - And Other Shades of Gray
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on August 9, 2007 at 2:25 pm
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Earlier this week, certain questions were brought to my attention regarding the System Defense Filters and Policies regarding implementing a Quarantine. The System defense document clearly states that AMT has a built-in Pass filter for DHCP transmit messages but AMT does not have this built-in Pass filter for DHCP receive messages. This means that, in [...]
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A Quick Update on the Intel® SCS 3.1
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on August 7, 2007 at 3:15 pm
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Announcing an update to the SCS 3.1 - We have made some updates to the SCS 3.1 located on the Manageability Website. Here is what changed: SCS 3.1 sample scripts contained the following errors that were fixed Correction of the script creating an auxiliary table in the DB Removal of timeout in script Changes in the names [...]
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New Power Packages: Yes Virginia, AMT 3.0 systems have these too!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on August 2, 2007 at 8:51 am
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And "Yes Virginia, you must have AMT 3.0 Hardware in order to take advantage of them." I recently blogged about the new Power Packages included with AMT 2.5/2.6. Here I will include what's new with AMT 3.0. AMT 3.0 also provides support for multiple power policies and supports configuration of the maximum Power State where Intel AMT will operate. [...]
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Announcing SCS 3.1 and what is new from SCS 3.0
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on July 30, 2007 at 5:33 pm
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Well, a couple weeks ago we posted the new Intel SCS 3.0 (Supporting AMT 2.2, 2.5, 2.6, and 3.0) onto the Manageability Community Developer's website and now there is an updated release containing additional enhancements (SCS 3.1.) Here's what's new: AMT 2.2/AMT 3.0 Feature: Support for the Remote Configuration Tool (RCT), including new APIs and a new [...]
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Intel® AMT and the Scoop on IPV6 vs IPV4
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on July 18, 2007 at 9:18 am
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One of the questions that I get often is about to what extent IPV6 can be used with Intel® AMT. There are three documents in the SDK that cover how they are used in APIs (Intel® AMT WS-Management Flows, the Network Interface Guide, and the System Defense and Agent Presence Overview documents.) This blog post is [...]
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Announcing a brand new Intel® AMT SDK!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on July 17, 2007 at 9:46 am
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I'm sure it is what we all have been waiting for on the Manageability Community Developer's web site: an updated Intel® AMT SDK supporting the new AMT releases 2.2, 2.6 and 3.0 (What happened to AMT 2.5? It is now AMT 2.6!) I will use this post to describe what has changed from AMT 2.1. AMT 2.2: [...]
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SCS 3.0 Documentation Update (for Scripting)
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on July 15, 2007 at 7:33 pm
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It has been brought to our attention that there is an error in the SCS Documentation that affects both the SCS 1.2 and the 3.0 releases which is applicable to developers who are writing their own script. The Environment Variable called CS_AMT_ADDR should actually be referenced as CS_AMT_ADDRESS. The document has been updated and will be [...]
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CentrinoPro Platforms and Power Packages (what are these??)
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on July 11, 2007 at 10:56 am
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We all know that Power Management is one of the new features in AMT 2.5, right? Well maybe not. With Mobile Processing mixed with Intel AMT mixed with battery life, what could be a better topic? AMT 2.5 provides support for multiple power policies and supports configuration of the maximum Power State where Intel AMT will operate. [...]
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Bookmark These! (All about Intel® AMT)
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on July 3, 2007 at 10:02 am
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Updated: Aug 7, 2007 - There are so many websites that have really good information pertaining to Intel® AMT that I thought it would be nice to have them in one place. (This is a living blog post.) Intel's Manageability Community Site: http://software.intel.com/en-us/manageability/ Intel® AMT - Manageability Community Forum: http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/manageability-software-development/ Look at the most current blog posts: [...]
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Moving from Intel® SCS 1.2 to Intel® SCS 3.0 - Tell me more!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on July 2, 2007 at 9:56 am
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With this post I would like to welcome the new and improved Intel® SCS 3.0 which is now available on the Intel Manageability Community Website: http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/home/manageability.aspx. Here is what is new in the Intel SCS 3.0: (Note that while it will be necessary to have an OEM system that supports AMT 2.2, AMT 2.5, or AMT 3.0 to implement the [...]
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The Microsoft vs. Apple Clock is Ticking
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on June 22, 2007 at 8:04 pm
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Age 71: My mom gets her own computer. It is a Macintosh. It's huge. It was $50 at a garage sale. It was acquired at this garage sale by my nephew in Seattle. (He is a MacFan and currently works at an Apple store and is a member of a band that I cannot type the title to on [...]
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More Photos from Research@Intel Day
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on June 21, 2007 at 11:20 am
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I had the oppurtunity to attend Research Day at Intel this week. What an amazing event. It began with Justin Rattner, Intel's CTO giving participants a glimpse of the fascinating research projects that we would be looking at throughout the day. Reasearchers from all over the world were here to show us what technologies they are [...]
Category: Game Development, Manageability & Security, Mobility, Parallel Programming, Site News & Announcements
Just the FAQs: My "Living" FAQ Blog
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on June 14, 2007 at 3:10 pm
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This post shall contain very important information that I don't feel like hunting for every time I need it! I will be adding information as I bump into it. Updated: August 09, 2007 Q: How do I turn on the error logs for the Intel SCS application? - 08/09/07 A: You can do this by going into the [...]
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Intel SCS, SCA, AMT Director - You've Been Provisioned!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on June 13, 2007 at 9:04 am
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Everyone knows that in order to be able to use Intel® AMT features, one must first enable AMT via the ME BIOS extentions and provision the system in either Small Business Mode (very easy and can be done quicky inside the AMT Configuration in the BIOs extentions) or Enterprise Mode (which requires a provisioning server and PID/PPS keys). But what developers don't [...]
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Intel® AMT 2.5: New Feature - Environment Detection
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on June 11, 2007 at 2:11 pm
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One of the new features with Intel® AMT 2.5 (for Centrino Pro) is called "Environment Detection." Since Intel AMT is now available on wireless notebooks, one of the most frequent questions I get is: How does Intel AMT work if I'm away from my office and connected to a foreign network that is not directly interconnected [...]
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Are UUIDs Enterprise Worthy?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on June 8, 2007 at 8:41 am
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In a managed environment, it is important that all hardware assets have a unique identifier so as to not have naming conflicts (unless this environment is managed by a bunch of mathamaticians who just happen to enjoy a little chaos.) This unique identifier is known as the UUID. UUID stands for: Universally Unique ID. The UUID format as defined [...]
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Intel® AMT: Local vs. Remote APIs
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on June 1, 2007 at 8:57 am
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This is another blog post resulting from our Manageability Forum posts. (You've been blogged!) Often, when developers dive into the Intel® SDK, they find their way to the Agent Presence Sample code, they try to register the agent and then they get a failure "Soap Error 22." (I know, I've done this, but I did not do [...]
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Intel® AMT Goes Mobile!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on May 22, 2007 at 3:01 pm
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With the recent launch of Centrino Pro we are starting to get questions on our Manageability Forum about how Intel® AMT will be supported on a mobile platform, or should I say, what are the limitations. Since the associated documentation, white papers, new SDK are not available on the Manageability Community site quite yet (but will be soon!), [...]
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That Intel® AMT Status Message...
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on May 14, 2007 at 3:06 pm
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There has been quite some discussion on the Manageability Forum concerning the AMT Status Window that pops up and tells folks whether their system is AMT Enabled or not. Even though a checkbox has been added to the window that will stop displaying it, I am hearing that they just don't want it to appear [...]
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Intel® AMT: Emulator, RDK, SDK, DTK - what are they for?
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on May 14, 2007 at 7:37 am
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There seems to be some confusion on our Manageability Forum with regards to the various Tools that we have as downloads on the Manageability Community Site. Here are some brief descriptions and when to use them: RDK: Reference Design Kit - This is a "solution" written in Java on Linux provided to help folks implement [...]
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Is the Firewall On Again??
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on May 10, 2007 at 10:59 pm
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We all know that the State motto for New Mexico is "Red or Green" but how many folks know what the Intel® AMT motto is? I've decided it must be: "Did the firewall get turned on again??????" It seems like no matter how good we are about making sure the Windows Firewall on our Intel® AMT [...]
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Who Stole my Cookies!
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 14, 2007 at 8:07 am
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My System Hardening Blog was inspired last week when I was maintaining my Mother's laptop. This post is inspired by one of the comments to that Blog. I was trying to keep it simple since she (and she represents a huge on-line population) doesn't really understand Cookies, Firewalls, Router Passwords, etc. The funny thing is: [...]
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System Hardening - Basic Tips
By Gael Holmes Hofemeier (Intel) (132 posts) on February 12, 2007 at 5:05 pm
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My life is on my computer! How safe is my life? (A precursor to my thoughts on Intel® Active Management Technology) I didn't' realize that it takes only a matter of minutes from the time a system is on the internet for an attack to occur. Today's hackers have software that is constantly looking for [...]