In IT environments where device naming standards may be coarse, or where users can freely rename their systems at will, you may experience problems managing these clients' AMT firmwares. Since, in order to maintain proper AMT functionality, the OS and AMT hostnames must match, an IT administrator or engineer would likely be interested in finding out which machines do not meet this criteria.

With that in mind, I've written a simple SQL query, that can be run against your Configuration Manager database, to determine what devices have mismatching OS and AMT hostnames. I've pasted the text below, but if you want a more nicely formatted version, please see this link at PasteBin.

/*
Author: Trevor Sullivan

Date: Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Purpose: Identify devices whose AMT hostname and OS hostname mismatch
   in the Configuration Manager database

*/

select
-- Active Directory site name
[AD_Site_Name0] as 'AD SiteName'
-- AMT hostname (in provisioning record)
, [amt].[HostName] as 'AMT HostName'
-- OS hostname (should match AMT firmware)
, [sys].[Name0] as 'OS Hostname'
-- Retrieve UserID to identify device owner
, [UserName0] as 'UserID'
-- Hardware vendor
, [cs].[Manufacturer0] as 'Vendor'
-- Device model
, [cs].[Model0] as 'Model0'

from v_AMTMachineInfo [amt]

-- Join v_R_System to retrieve AD Site Name field
join v_R_System [sys] on [sys].[ResourceID] = [amt].[MachineID]
-- Joinv_GS_Computer_System to allow us to retrieve make/model information
join v_GS_Computer_System [cs] on [sys].[ResourceID] = [cs].[ResourceID]

where
-- We only want current resource records from ConfigMgr
[sys].[Obsolete0] = 0
-- This condition determines the mismatching hostname in the v_R_System and v_AMTMachineInfo SQL views
and [sys].[Name0] <> [amt].[HostName]

Cheers,

Trevor Sullivan

Systems Engineer

Hello vPro Experts!

I would like to pass on some information that I discovered a while ago, based on a Microsoft Premiere Support ticket. I was having trouble getting the Microsoft Out-of-Band (OOB) Management Console functioning from a Windows XP system. I tried everything on a fresh, standard build of Windows XP, but nothing would work.

After working with Premiere Support, we finally discovered that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) was required for proper functioning of the Microsoft OOB console.

This behavior is actually related to some functionality that was added in SP3, specifically in the winhttp.dll library. There is a function called WinHttpSetOption in the WinHttp library, which is called with a parameter enabling the WinHttp Option Flag named WINHTTP_ENABLE_SPN_SERVER_PORT. This flag enables the WinHttp library to include the server port in the Kerberos Service Principle Name (SPN), since the AMT web service is running on a non-standard HTTP port (16993).

The Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) version of the WinHttp library does not include this capability, and consequently fails to authenticate. In order to properly connect to ConfigMgr-provisioned AMT devices with the Microsoft OOB Console, please make sure your helpdesk / support systems are running Windows XP SP3.

If you have any questions, feel free to post them in the comments section, and I will do my best to answer them.

Trevor Sullivan

Systems Engineer

OfficeMax Corporation

Hello Intel vPro Experts!

I've started putting together a document on some issues that I've encountered during my experiences with Intel vPro and ConfigMgr. You can access this document right here on the vPro Expert Center: http://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-2362

Please provide feedback on the document. It's not of very high quality just yet, because I only started writing it last night, but I hope to keep it updated, to provide a valuable resource to other IT folk interested in using Intel vPro.

Trevor Sullivan

Systems Engineer

OfficeMax Corporation