Have you visited the Intel Software Network Manageability Community lately? There have been some recent changes that I’ll speak to in a few minutes. But if you have never been to the community I ask that you check us out. Our community is comprised of software developers and our site serves as an engineering resource for Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT) and Intel® vPro™ Processor Technology, whether you are just learning about the technology  (Start Here Guide) or an experienced user (Architecture Guide: Intel® Active Management Technology, Intel® Active Management Technology Use Cases ). At our community site you can download our latest product offerings including the Remote Encryption Management SDK.

Recent Community Changes include:

• New Community Manager (that would be me) who wants to provide what you need for  successful work. I always welcome feedback!

• Some look and feel changes including a kind of Start Here place to help you quickly find what you are looking for as soon as you arrive.

• New article links such as that for WS-Man.

• Community Member at Large (outside Intel) designation – we’ve chosen one and we’ll be sharing his contributions shortly. This program indicates our strong desire for community participation.

Our forums are excellent places for Q&A and we’ve got engineers available to answer your question. Manageability Community Blogs are a great opportunity for members, inside and outside Intel, to share expertise and to initiate and contribute to lively discussions on issues that are currently being experienced in our world. (Here is a great sample that features info on soon-to-be available technology: Intel KVM: This is your SOL on Steroids.) It is also the perfect place to demonstrate leadership and develop professionally.

Please come to visit us and see what we can do for you! Bring your ideas, suggestions, questions and opinions to our party!

Sincerely.

Kathy Farrel

Manageability Community Manager
Intel® Software Network
kathy.a.farrel@intel.com
My ISN Blog
Office - 415.895.1226
Cell - 505.400.2548

Monday, September 14, 2009

Airport city – Avenue ballroom

Have you ever faced the “blue screen of death”? Have you ever watched your laptop or PC get stuck, when the only solution is to reboot and lose

all your data? Want to know how you can save power, save money and move towards “Greener IT”? Wondering how you can protect your valuable data after a laptop is stolen?

Then this conference is for you!

What is Intel® vPro™ Technology?

Laptop and desktop PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology enable IT to take advantage of hardware-assisted security and manageability capabilities that enhance their ability to maintain, manage, and protect their business PCs.

Platform and Services on the same package

Learn about Intel Service-oriented Technology coupled with our Silicon, Firmware and drivers. Hear more about Intel’s new concept Platform Extension Service (PES) – “Driver in the cloud”. Enjoy new services through ISV and Outsourced Service Providers, Intel Resellers, Retail and Telcos.

Intel® Upgrade Service (IUS): Flexibility to add additional features to a PC after purchase via remote upgrade. Intel’s Manageability Engine (ME) provides unique opportunity to “sell up” from a low-end system to a flexible upgradeable system.

Intel® Remote PC Assist Technology (RPAT): Maintain or restore PC health by remotely servicing a desktop PC over the internet.

Provides Out-of-Band support over the internet at a low cost of entry.

Intel® Anti-Theft Technology: PC Protection (Intel® AT): Provides hardware-based client-side intelligence to secure your laptop if it is lost or stolen.

HW-based capabilities provide greater data security, privacy and higher tamper-resistance.

Target Audience:

• IT integrators (Ness, Matrix, Malam etc)
• Telcos (Bezeq International, One, 013)
• Verticals:  IT industry leaders in Health, Academics, Army, government etc.
• Israeli / regional ISVs

Partners:

Intel, Microsoft, Checkpoint, Avalon, SysAid, Support Space, Aternity, Malam team

OEMs – HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer

PITA - Palestinian IT Association

About the speakers:

Daniel Hershkovitz – Israel Minister of Science and Technology. Professor of Mathematics (Technion).

David Tuhy - General Manager, Platform Products and Technical Marketing Division, Business Client Group, Digital Enterprise Group

Robert Crooke - Vice president and General Manager of the Business Client Group (BCG). He is responsible for directing Intel's vision for delivering innovative business client solutions.

Yishai Fraenkel – Manager of Israel SW design center in Jerusalem. Co-manager the overall Client Component Group Firmware organization

Sinai Bareket – GM Sales and Marketing group - Country manager Israel Greece and Cyprus.

Conference Agenda

Murphy's Law states that just when you think you have shared all you have to give in a document you find a juicy tidbit that should have been included.  Therefore, I have updated the Intel® AMT™ Add-On for SMS from V3.3 to V5.0 Upgrade OverviewPDF. 

I discovered a batch file that is included in the default installation directory, C:\SMSAMTInstallation\iAMT addon for SMS\IAMTSMSSettingsExport.bat.  Within it contains the command line to export the registry settings for your currently installed version of the Add-on.

Hi all - A couple of new issues were posted to the Known Issues, Best Practices, and Workarounds. They include:

• Q&A on customized Intel® AMT firmware
  

• Microsoft* SCCM unable to use Intel(R) AMT features when run on Microsoft* Vista* Operating System

In the last part of the latest edition of the Intel Technology Journal (ITJ), I write about a new usage for Intel AMT and peer-to-peer computing. See Extreme Programming with Intel® vPro™ Technology: Pushing the Limits with Innovative Software.

The general idea is that you can use Intel AMT to represent a computer while it’s asleep to the rest of the peers. Normally, when you have lots of computers talking to each other in a peer-to-peer network and one of them goes to sleep, it just disappears from the network, just as if it had been completely disconnected.

Intel AMT can allow for network presence of a sleeping computer in a peer-to-peer network by creating an Intel AMT guest account that is very limited in its access (General Info + 3PDS) but allows other computers in the network to occasionally connect and read it’s sleeping state. This has many benefits: In the past, peer-to-peer networks required all computers to be always on; this is no longer the case. By using 3PDS, even off, computers are still discoverable and searchable.

Imagine for a moment 100 sleeping computers in a room. Someone wakes one up and searches for a tutorial video file located on one of the other sleeping computers. With Intel AMT and a peer-to-peer network, software can search all of the computers, find the one with the file, wake it up and download the file. Everything is very power efficient.

This technique does not have to be used only for files; you can find hardware, free disk space, backups, software and hardware services, etc.

Ylian