This week we had three of our team in Israel meeting with other Intel® vPro^TM technology developers. They worked on getting the latest features into our utilities that support the Intel® Setup and Configuration Services (SCS) for remote and one-touch client configurations as well as further synchronization on other utilities in our capability suiteincluding Manageability Commander.

The first utility to benefit from this trip is our Intel® SCS Setup Wizard for SCS 5.x which will release later this year. Two other utilities that will be releasing soon also benefitted. The Intel® Remote Configuration Certificate Utility and the Intel® Remote Configuration Certificate Scout are two programs targeted at helping determine the best security certificate to use when activating Intel® AMT in an enterprise with many generations of Intel® AMT firmware. We will publishing a white paper soon to further explain the issues these utilities address.

And, the teams established plans to align Intel® AMT Software Developer Kit functionality aligned with Manageability Commander, Director & Outpost.

And finally, we announce the release of the Intel® Remote Configuration Certificate Scout, a simple command line utility that allows users to query a system to detect Intel® AMT Firmware version and DHCP option 15 ‘DNS domain option name' settings. These values are useful for determining what type of remote configuration certificate your system can support. This utility supports Intel® AMT systems, and will work on either provisioned or unprovisioned systems.

Click here to download this utility: RCFG_support_util_1_0_08304_1.zip

Some of our team had the opportunity to present demos and talk with IT managers in the Portland, Oregon area this week. To prepare for the event, we created a couple of Intel(R) AMT provisioning recipes that you can download from the vPro Expert Center Activation Zone today. These recipes use screen shots and some of our tools to get a test network of Intel(R) AMT computers provisioned and ready for activation in minutes rather than hours. We chose one set of conditions for each of the recipes and once you've done them, feel free to modify to meet your needs. you can even catch a glimps of yours truely making a dry-run of the demo on YouTube.

bon appetite'

Free Provisioning Recipes - Start Evaluating Intel(R) AMT in Under 45 Minutes

We had a great time at the event, "Intel Premier IT Proffesionals Conference" and look forward to meeting many more people in the coming weeks as the conferences swing through North America. For more information on the events go to ipip.intel.com. If you can make one, I'm sure you'd learn something and we'd love to see you. We also recieved some very favorable reviews on our givaway at the event. A nice USB drive complete with all 26 of our tools, documents, videos, links, and the recipes mentioned above. The whole set takes up around 700 MB, but Josh hillicker was pretty excited about it and mentioned we'll be trying to make it available on-line. Stay tuned...

Speaking of staying tuned, next time we'll be discussing our team's recent adoption of the tool set formerly known as the Intel(R) AMT Developer Tool Kit (DTK). After years of stellar work, Ylian Saint-hillaire has passed the baton to our team to maintain and enhance this tool set. We look forward to the challenge and the future of the tool. Until next time, good-bye.