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  • Name: Timothy Duncan
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  • Biography: Going on 25 years at Intel from fab tech to tool guy I've been trying to make using technology easier. In my spare time I play with my family, photography, & dogs.
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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.

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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.

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Volume One

What's new this round -

Activation Tools: SCS RCT Wizard
Management Tools: Remote Power Control Utility
Testing Tools: BVT
Current Projects: SMB Provisioning Utility

Thank you for taking the time to review our blog. We are a team of software engineers who take pride in making technology easier for others to use. We are busy working on creating tools to help in activation (use) of Intel® vPro(tm) technology. So far in 2008, we have released 7 publicly available tools and a few others special pieces of code for folks working on yet to be released Intel technologies. This being our first "all tool" blog, We've included short descriptions of our current releases as well as a couple nuggets on projects that are currently under investigation. Please plan on coming back every couple of weeks for updates on our projects. We relish suggestions from you on what you would like us to look at in our future development of the right tools to make this the great technology we know it to be.

Activation Tools:

SCS RCT Wizard
RCT.exe is a command line utility that comes with Intel® AMT Setup and Configuration Services (SCS) distributions. This tool wraps a graphical user interface and troubleshooting guide around RCT.exe making it a little easier to use.

USB Key Provisioning Utility
A tool focused on simplifying one-touch provisioning using a USB thumb drive to distribute management credentials through an Advanced mode**.

SCS Setup Wizard
A tool designed to automate the installation of the Intel® Setup and Configuration Service (SCS) along with the third party pre-requisite components automatically. SCS Setup Wizard Performs the following functions -

Install/configure MS SQL Server 2005 Express* Edition and MS SQL Server Management Studio Express
Install/configure Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0
Install/configure MS Certificate Authority*
Install/configure Active Directory Services
Install certificate for IIS
Install certificate for Intel AMT Client
Install/configure Intel SCS service

Management Tools:

Remote Power Control Utility
Simple command line utility that allows administrators managing Intel® AMT computers to power systems down without a management console application.

Unprovision Utility
The Intel® vPro&trade technology "mulligan." Allows administrators to remotely unprovision systems that have become unresponsive to other commands or where incorrectly provisioned.

Intel® AMT Reflector
A tool which offers a unique implementation allowing an Intel® AMT client to access/manage some Intel® AMT functionality locally via the OS without entering the management engine directly (usually via BIOS).

Testing Tools:

Brand Verification Tools (BVT)
This is the tool Intel's customers use to get Intel brand assets such as the Intel® vPro&trade technology sticker. The tool verifies the configuration meets the brand requirements. This tool is only available to registered users. Learn more about Intel's brand programs at http://www.intel.com/GO/brandadvantage/. Our team posted the release candidate for this year's Intel® Core&trade2 Duo with vPro&trade technology Brand Verification Tool last week and we expect final release soon. The team has worked hard to create a new design to this tool and with its new user interface and enhanced pre-test checklist and troubleshooting guide. We hope to make passing the test much more straight forward for our customers. End users and other customers can use a complimentary tool called the Platform Test Utility (PTU) for the brand on their computer:

Intel® Core™2 Processor with vPro™ Technology Test Utility
Intel® Centrino® Processor Technology Test Utility
Intel® Viiv™ Technology Test Utility

Intel® AMT Reflector
A tool which offers a unique implementation allowing an Intel® AMT client to access/manage some Intel® AMT functionality locally via the OS without entering the management engine directly (usually via BIOS).

Packet Decoder
The Intel® AMT Packet Decoder is a debug / test tool for capturing and decoding Intel® AMT commands that are sent between, an Intel AMT management console and an Intel AMT platform. Requires small business (basic mode) and non-TLS enables Standard or Advanced** Intel® AMT provisioned clients.

Current Projects (see note 2):

SMB Provisioning Utility
Many of our customers have expressed a desire to be able to activate their Intel® vPro&trade technology systems remotely. While this is possible for customers who choose to use the standard and advanced provisioning modes(see note 1), it has not been generally accomplished in the basic** mode. Our team is currently researching what is required to create a SW tool that can do this.

RCFG Certificate Research
The team is currently researching the requirements to build tools that can simplify the security certificates required to manage Standard and Advanced mode** provisioned computers on your network. Stay tuned for more information as the team solidifies its plans in this area.

More Information on the Intel® vPro Expert Center:

Intel® vPro & Centrino with vPro on the vPro Expert Center
A complete list of software tools targeted for use in evaluating and using your Intel® vPro technology. This list includes the tools listed here as well as other developed elsewhere.

Note 1: Provisioning definitions are changed! Basic was previously called SMB mode. Standard and Advanced were referred to as Enterprise mode. See Michele's Understanding Provisioning Models - Basic, Standard, & Advanced on the vPro Expert Center for explanation.

Note 2 Intel reserves the right to change plans, features and schedule at any time and without prior notice.

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Intel® AMT Reflector is a software tool designed to allow local management of Intel® AMT Mangement Engine functionality from the local operating system. Removing the need to reboot to verify and change the Intel® AMT host computer name or un-provision Intel® AMT on the computer. This functionality improves debug and factory operations in activating and building Intel® AMT based client environments. This release completes DOPD SW Engineering's original functionality plan for the tool and is therefore marked as a production level release.

This release has the following updates from the Beta release:

· Added a timestamp to Intel® AMT events in the logs generated by the client-side applications.
· Fixed the XML logfile format so that it will be properly recognized by external applications that support the XML file format.
· Fixed the issue where some commands may not succeed on the first call for some Intel(R) AMT systems.
· Fixed the "Browse" button functionality in the Intel(R) AMT Reflector Server configuration window.
· The Intel® AMT Reflector Server now logs the client FQDN for each event.
· Removed the View Log window from the Intel® AMT Reflector Client application.
· Improved the error handling of the Intel® AMT Reflector Client application.

Download the tool here

Here's a 5 minute video overview of the tool's capabilities (Click here to view video on YouTube) :

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