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javierandrescaceres

A R&D Manager working on Colombian industry since 2002. He worked on many challenging projects like Windows Kernel Mode Drivers, Intel AMT SOL (Serial Over Lan) / IDER (IDE redirection), Yellow Pages Search Engines, Windows CE Asset Tracking Agents, Workflow designers, RFID capturing applications, DirectX game engines and so on. He also won some development contests like Microsoft Imagine Cup National Finals. He influenced (or helped) many people in technical sessions, seminars, initiatives or formal courses been a Microsoft/INETA/Intel contributor in community or corporate massive events (~500 people).

IDF 2011 is comming!

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on August 8, 2011 at 2:25 pm
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Hi everybody! Wow it seems like yesterday when I remember the last Intel Developer Forum (IDF) but it was almost 1 year ago from now. For some of you who are new to IDF let me explain you a bit about it, it's an annual event where there are many activities taking place at the same time, like the [...]

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It’s time to migrate to the Intel AMT SCS 7.0

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on April 12, 2011 at 1:51 pm
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As you probably have noticed, there are great posts about the Intel AMT SCS 7.0 (check this or this for example). This post is not about all new features, it’s just a look to the previous 5.X version to see the benefits of migrating.  The 7.0 version has been available for some time, but there [...]

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Intel Manageability Checker 2.0

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on March 1, 2011 at 3:48 pm
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The Intel Manageability checker is the best partner one can find when it’s time to verify the usage cases. This tool lets capturing and analyzing Intel® AMT traffic between two systems to validate any of the 14 predefined Intel® Active Management Technology Use Cases and creating a report with a simple couple of clicks. There [...]

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Intel AMT + WinPE = Offline P2V

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on January 18, 2011 at 2:51 pm
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Intel AMT (IDE-R and KVM) + WinPE = Offline P2V is a usage case variation (derived of OS Reimaging with SOL-IDER and WinPE) that lets you create virtual hard disks (VHD file formats) in order to restore them in a virtual machine monitor. There are many methods to perform a physical to virtual (P2V) conversion, [...]

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Playing around with Intel AMT on Windows Phone

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on June 22, 2010 at 10:01 am
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Two sample applications built: the first for accessing the AMT machine Web User Interface (WebUI) and the second for consuming the AMT machine’s Web Services for performing some of the remote control functionality.

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Using the Software Assessment Tool for Manageability

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on June 17, 2010 at 9:06 am
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My company has a product which is AMT capable, so when we heard about a tool for testing and sampling the manageability features in Andrew Schiestl’s blog  we agreed in using it. First step was downloading it, but you have to be a registered Intel partner, so if you’re not yet it’s a good time to [...]

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How to enable Intel® AMT KVM by programming

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on June 11, 2010 at 10:22 am
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The first task to perform when working with KVM is enabling the redirection ports. This post is about doing this task by code.  This use case can be divided into in three steps (as mentioned in the KVM application developer guide): Check if KVM is Enabled or Disabled Enable/Disable the KVM Interface Change the Listener [...]

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Bluetooth stacks on Windows Mobile

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on March 16, 2010 at 9:46 am
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When you need to Access to the Bluetooth hardware on Windows Mobile, You should have into account your device’s implementation so You can read the information propertly. There are at least two Bluetooth stacks (implementations) types on Windows Mobil from Microsoft and BroadComm. Both implementations are the same for the end user, but at low [...]

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Category: Mobility

From the Desk of the Community Member at Large.

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on March 16, 2010 at 9:38 am
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Waiting for Intel® AMT 6.0. As an AMT developer, I started working with AMT 3.X and have been updating to major releases. For me and other colleagues, one of the most important transitions was to the Intel® AMT 4.0 mobile version, since that new release had come without a long wait. Now, there are a [...]

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How to enable Intel® AMT SOL by programming.

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on January 12, 2010 at 8:34 pm
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This blog post is a good complement to the second of Duofeng Li’s AMT Experience blog posts. In his blog, He mentioned what Intel® AMT SOL is and how to enable it by using the MEBx configuration menu. This post is about enabling it too, but by programming using WSMan and the good old, well-known [...]

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Ten reasons to read “Active Platform Management Demystified”

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on November 20, 2009 at 2:17 pm
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This book is a must read for everyone in the IT arena (developers, IT professionals, etc.) because it’s not only a deep guide to Intel® AMT technology, it’s also a very useful review of state-of-the-art manageability standards. If you have discussed or read about WS-Man, WBEM, CIM, DASH, SMASH and other technology acronyms and you [...]

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Review of the SCS Setup Wizard

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on November 9, 2009 at 4:31 pm
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 I’ll start by telling I wish this tool had been available some time ago because I would have saved a lot of trial and error working time. All of you who have taken Intel AMT into enterprise environments have faced the challenge of delivering SCS as quickly and easily as possible.  Many times this is [...]

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Building community

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on April 29, 2009 at 8:34 am
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  Hello everybody!    I was reading the last Gael’s blog post about the community response and I think it’s a good time to share something different than AMT, parallelism and so on.   Today I want to share my second life as a community guy; in my free time I use to participate in community [...]

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Troubleshooting the IMR_RES_TLS_CONNECTION_FAILED error in mutual TLS

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on March 19, 2009 at 8:36 am
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Hello everybody!, well I’ve seen some guys getting the IMR_RES_TLS_CONNECTION_FAILED on their clients apps, so I thought it could be a good idea to expand my first post called “Tips to check if the SCS, the DTK or your app doesn’t connect to an AMT Enterprise machine” to include some specific steps to troubleshoot this [...]

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Building an Intel AMT Agent Monitor (Part I)

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on February 25, 2009 at 7:58 am
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  Hello everybody,   One of the coolest Intel AMT’s features is security, but one can be lost among the jargon and get discouraged quickly. The purpose of this post is to talk a little about System Defense, network security policies and heuristic filters to finally build an Agent monitor (or "Agent Presence").   Introduction [...]

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Tips to check if the SCS, the DTK or your app doesn’t connect to an AMT Enterprise machine

By javierandrescaceres (16 posts) on January 21, 2009 at 3:53 pm
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In this post I’ll talk about my experience connecting an AMT machine (Enterprise mode with mutual TLS enabled) with a server machine running the SCS and with a machine running a management console; this connection can be from the SCS, the DTK or from your application (based on the DTK’s source code) to an AMT [...]

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