First - congratulations and welcome to Intel vPro.

As Josh stated - the quick start guide on this site may provide some insights\help.

Some other quick turnaroud items to help in your internal learnings\testing are as follows.

• Checkout Intel System Defense Utility. This will provide an ISV agnostic introduction to some of the core functionalities of Intel vPro. http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/software/isdu/index.htm
• Checkout the short video demonstration to setup a client in Small-Medium Business mode. http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/proexpert/2007/09/14/got-10-min-provision-intelamt-in-smb-mode

Lastly - if you are working with an Intel account representative or key partner, and have 10k or more clients in your environment - ask about "vPro Activation". more information needed - let us know.

Hi Dave!

Let me add to the confusion in this thread

1) The SCS is required to provision systems in "Enterprise" mode. If you just want to test the iAMT capabilities of a system, I strongly suggest that you stick with SMB (Small-Medium-Business)-mode for now. It does not allow you to encrypt the iAMT traffic to and from the vPro system, but it will provide you with exactly the same features as Enterprise mode. Terry posted a link to a video that explains SMB mode provisioning above. As the system is already provisioned, you might as well stick with that.

2) I am surprised none of the people that replied before me suggested you use AMT Commander for testing (not for production use). It is not a tool that should be used in production, but it will allow you to easily get familiar with the features that iAMT offers. You can download it here. It requires the Microsoft .net framework to be installed on the system you want to use it on. You could also install it on another desktop PC, for testing. Remeber that you will not be able to locally connect to AMT (e.g. run AMT commander on the same machine that you want to control) for security reasons. I consider AMT Commander to be a pretty much straight forward tool, post here again if you have any questions on how to use it, and/or watch the video tutorials on the AMT-DTK page (link is above)

3) If you decide to broaden your iAMT testing, check with your management console vendor, whether they support iAMT in their products. Most of them do by now.

Good luck evaluating, let us know if you need more help.

Alex

Hey you may want to check out my quick provisioning video for intelAMT. It might help you out.
Here's the link to it on the vPro Expert Center.
http://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-1147

Regards,
Kelsey Witherow