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Posts from Gael Holmes (Intel) 
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Gael (a.k.a Atalanta Intel in Second Life) is a Manageability Engineer at Intel working in numerous areas associated with Intel® AMT. In her role as a moderator of the Manageability Developer Community Forum, she engages in supporting and enabling developers by contributing in-depth knowledge on latest Intel AMT SDK releases. Gael runs a successful Blog and strives to summarize the gained community knowledge in postings that serve the purpose of giving developers access to comprehensive information more quickly. Gael began working with Intel AMT after years of prior performance analysis and benchmarking. Her other passion in life is called "Ulf". |
SCS 3.3.1 Hot Fix Release Now Available
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on May 28, 2008 at 12:16 pm
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We have a new (3.3.1) Hot Fix on the the Manageability Community Site for the Intel Setup and Config Server (SCS). This Hot fix can be downloaded here. This release has the following fixes: Fix of AD issue - When the SCS creates Active Directory objects; it performs all operations on one domain controller, even if the [...]
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Intel® SCS 3.2.2 is now available for download
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on April 22, 2008 at 3:24 pm
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SCS 3.2.2 includes the following new feature: The user can now type-in the SQL server username and password, to address their own Data Base strong password requirements. Note that this change is NOT included in the 3.3 Version of the SCS Use SCS 3.2.2 only if you have a Strong Password requirement for the SQL data base user and cannot use [...]
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Hot Fix for Intel® AMT SDK (3.0.2)
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on April 14, 2008 at 11:55 am
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We have updated the Intel Manageability Community Website with a Hot Fix for the Intel® SDK. This hot fix contains the following fixes/updates: Memory Leak in the Storage Library Redirection Library fix: SOL Boot can hang the Intel® AMT system Various documentation corrections in the Network Interface Guide and the Developers Guide to the Sample Setup and Configuration Application For more information [...]
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Is Intel® AMT Dash Compliant?
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on April 11, 2008 at 9:24 am
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This blog is based on a recent Forum question regarding the compliance of DASH within Intel® AMT. It turns out that this user ran a program called SIMFIRE (developed by AMD) against an Intel® AMT 3.0 capable system and it reported out that no, we are not compliant. So I thought it might be a [...]
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Getting to know WS-MAN a little better
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on March 24, 2008 at 1:39 pm
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Now that everyone (I'm sure) has started developing their Intel® AMT applications to use the WS-Man interface - I have a few configuration tips here. WinRM service does not start automatically on all compatible OS's - make sure the service is running: Starts automatically on Windows Server 2008 Must be started manually on Windows Vista WinRM is not installed [...]
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Intel® AMT Remote Access: An Overview
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on March 19, 2008 at 1:37 pm
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This is my third post on Intel AMT Local/Remote access. My first post provided an overview of how they differ and then my last post covered just the Local Access. This post focuses on just the Remote Access. Like the blog on Local Access, most of the information in this blog comes directly from the [...]
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Intel® AMT Local Access: How does it work?
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on March 19, 2008 at 11:42 am
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This is my second Blog on Intel AMT Local/Remote access. My first blog post provided an overview of how they differ. This post focuses on just the Local Access. Most of the information in this blog comes directly from the Overview.pdf located in the Intel AMT SDK. So here is everything that I'm sure you wanted to know about Intel [...]
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Intel® AMT Developers: What are *your* roadblocks?
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on March 18, 2008 at 4:44 pm
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I'm the kind of person who likes to see results and the numbers associated with them. Since I have been very involved in supporting the Manageability Community, I am always trying to figure out what kind of impact our Manageability Community has had on the Intel AMT Developers that are using us as a resource during their development [...]
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Intel® AMT + DMTF's DASH
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on March 13, 2008 at 11:38 am
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We recently received a forum question asking for more details around how Intel® AMT conforms to DASH. Ajith Illendula responded with a really nice and crisp table that I would like to include here so that this valuable information does not get buried in the forum. Ajith did not have the time to write the blog [...]
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Hello? Port 9971, Hello?
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on March 7, 2008 at 2:05 pm
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A couple weeks ago I ran into an interesting problem. I was not getting the "Hello" packet from my AMT Client while trying to use the AMT Director (from the DTK) to provision one of my systems. Quite a bit of time was spent troubleshooting this. I was not trying to do anything fancy - [...]
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PID/PPS, ZTC, and Hashes... Oh My!
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on March 7, 2008 at 1:38 pm
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This is another blog post that goes back to one of our Manageability Forum questions. I will attempt to cover the basics of Zero Touch Configuration in this blog. As we all know, we can enjoy Zero Touch Configuration (ZTC) using the Remote Configuration Tool which is part of the Intel SCS (Setup and Configuration Server.) [...]
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What about those PET events?
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on March 6, 2008 at 3:58 pm
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... And all about great knowledge sharing on our Manageability Community Developer's Forum! Nope, I'm not talking about the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.... I'm talking about Platform Event Traps and how they relate to managed systems. Intel AMT Remote Management provides always-available access to event logs of the following: PC Sensors, effectors, and other non-volatile [...]
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Intel AMT 3.2 3PDS Space Allocation Issue
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on February 28, 2008 at 3:20 pm
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Hi - this is just a quick post to let Intel® AMT 3.2 developers know that Intel AMT 3.2 has a known issue where only 64KB for 3PDS space can be specified (it should be 192KB per Business.) This has been fixed for the next version of AMT. Note that this is firmware (not an SDK issue.)
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Remote Configuration Tool (RCT 3.3.1) Now Available
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on February 21, 2008 at 12:36 pm
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RCT 3.3.1.0 contains a small modification to the previous RCT releases - now the RCT sends hello packets even if the RCT cannot send the Intel® AMT configuration properties to the SCS (Setup and Configration Server). This modification is useful if the RCT is used to emulate hello packets to the SCS 3.0. Click here for more [...]
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Intel® AMT: A Blurb about the Adoption of WSMAN
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on January 16, 2008 at 1:49 pm
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This blog post, I mean blurb, speaks to all Intel® AMT developers who are writing manageability software using the Legacy Network Interface Samples that are currently part of the SDK (folks may have noticed that there are now WS-MAN samples in the SDK as well and those samples were not added just for the fun of it. :) They were [...]
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I forgot my "ME" Password!
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on January 9, 2008 at 12:11 pm
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We recently received a question on our Manageability Forum asking how would we reset the Intel® AMT / "ME" password to factory defaults in the case where it may have been forgotten. Well, as with most BIO's there is an option to "Unprovision" and restore AMT/ME back to the factory defaults. As with most BIOS's this will [...]
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The ABCs of Intel® AMT/ME Passwords
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on December 18, 2007 at 11:13 am
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What is a ME Password? Well if you have to ask, you probably don't need to be in this blog post. :-) I was just doing some research on AMT vs ME passwords and here is what I found out. When we first get our Intel® AMT systems and we are setting them up for the first time, we [...]
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Is your Second Life flashing before your eyes?
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on December 17, 2007 at 8:56 am
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I have been monitoring a couple Blogs with their respective comments on Second Life lately - and why is this? It's because I have had some issues getting some of my systems to connect. I find out there are many issues with Second Life and certain Graphics Cards (Intel graphics cards, mostly.) There are a [...]
Category: Graphics, Social Media & Virtual Worlds
Environment Detection: Do-It-Yourself Lab
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on December 12, 2007 at 3:38 pm
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What is this? Recently a couple collegues and I took this Environment Detection lab to an Intel® AMT training event and delivered it to a group of engineers supporting AMT. Since we got such great feedback from the course we decided to post it on our Manageability Site (here). Start with taking a look a the Network [...]
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There *WAS* a hack for the Intel 965 Chipset and Second Life
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on December 11, 2007 at 12:47 pm
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Recently I wrote a blog here that described a change that could be made to the settings.xml file setting 'UseOcclusions' to FALSE, therefore allowing us to connect to Second Life. This worked great for most of us, however, it seems SL has released a new veiwer that causes this "fix" to not work. The following is [...]
Category: Graphics, Manageability, Social Media & Virtual Worlds
All about Wireless Profiles in Intel® AMT
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on December 11, 2007 at 8:28 am
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Since we have been receiving a number of questions regarding how AMT deals with Wireless Profiles - here is some information that I found in the SDK docs - hopefully it will answer some of those questions. Wireless connections operate at two levels - the wireless network interface and the interface driver executing on the platform [...]
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NAC Environment: Errata Found in AMT 3.0 Firmware
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on December 7, 2007 at 12:39 pm
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I'm just blogging this to help get the word out. We have posted the Errata Doc here on our Download site (scroll down to the bottom of the page.) The following errata was found in the Intel AMT Release 3.0 Firmware: In a NAC environment where an authorization failure VLAN is configured, if credentials become invalid after a successful connection [...]
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There is a hack! (for Second Life and the Intel 965 Chipset)
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on November 29, 2007 at 10:35 am
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There are hacks for everything, right? Well I have this brand new HP 6910p with the Intel 965 Express chipset running Vista and I could not get onto Second Life. Everytime I tried to connect, it would ask me if I wanted music and then it would crash. Well I thought, maybe my HP doesn't [...]
Category: Graphics, Social Media & Virtual Worlds
Now Available: Intel® SCS (Version 3.2.1 Hotfix)
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on November 28, 2007 at 8:31 am
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We have just updated the Manageability Downloads with the latest update for the Intel® SCS (Setup and Configuration Service) Version 3.2.1 Hotfix (Build 3.2.1.2). Here is what is new in this release: The behavior of the SCS SOAP API command GetNextServiceNewAMTProperties() is the same as it was in SCS 3.0 Fixed a memory leak in SCS SOAP API A login [...]
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Want to mess with the Registry??! Go Ahead and Turn on that SCS Debug Log
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on November 27, 2007 at 9:18 am
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We get a lot of questions on the Manageability Forum regarding problems encountered with Successfully configuring an AMT Client using the Intel® SCS. One thing that can be done to help out your debugging as well as ours is by simply enabling the SCS Debug Log. Here is how to do this: Run regedit (from a command [...]
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Strong AMT ME Passwords and Other Shades of Gray
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on November 8, 2007 at 2:02 pm
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Well we all know that the Intel® AMT Manageability Engine's password must be changed from it's factory default (admin) to a "strong password," correct? So what kind of strong password would that be? We had a post on our forum this morning where a user tried something similar to "Location_1" which looks to be strong. It has an [...]
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Environment Detection (New Errata) - one more blog...
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on August 28, 2007 at 8:38 am
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We are refreshing the 3.0 SDK Errata doc to include the following Errata concerning two of the Environment Detection APIs: SetEnvironmentDetection -- There is mismatch between documentation and WSDL. NULL should be replaced with empty array (in documentation). Calling SetEnvironmentDetection with null parameter throws a SOAP exception. In order to disable the service set EnvironmentDetectionDomainType to an empty [...]
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Is it time for my Sabbatical yet?
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on August 22, 2007 at 10:39 am
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11/5/2007: A lot of folks have been asking about what I've been doing for the last two months. While I was out, I was updating my Flickr account as well as my Getjelous account. Note that "Getjelous" only allows up to 40 pictures so that is why I had to move over to Flickr (I [...]
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Environment Detection and it's "Easy Button"
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on August 22, 2007 at 10:23 am
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Ok - I just put "Easy Button" in my title in order to get blog hits from everyone out there looking for one. I'm not below using cheap tricks for blog counts! One of the new AMT features for cPro systems that I have been playing with lately is the Environment Detection and VPN routing features. [...]
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New Errata Doc posted for the Intel® AMT 3.0 SDK
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on August 16, 2007 at 8:39 am
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If you are currently using the Intel 3.0 SDK, you may want to check out the latest Errata document that has been posted to the download site. This document contains 4 errata descriptions for the 3.0 SDK. Two have to do with the Developer's Guide to the Sample Setup and Configuration documentation, one with the ssl_auth_init() [...]
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What do *you* want to do in Second Life
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on August 16, 2007 at 8:19 am
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We seem to be in a brand new era in our work places. Our work places are moving into this thing called Second Life. I was curious about it so I got an account and tried to connect. I could not. I gave up. I figured that I was too busy with my First Life [...]
Category: Social Media & Virtual Worlds
Intel SCS 3.1: Missing ADDN Attribute Error Msg
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on August 15, 2007 at 11:35 am
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Aug152007: If you are working with the 3.1 release of the Intel Setup and Configuration Service and you are getting this error, here is why: If the AD (active directory) OU (organizational unit) is NULL, an error will occur and provisioning will be unsuccessful. The workaround is to put something (anything) in there even if AD is not [...]
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The Proper Quarantine - And Other Shades of Gray
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on August 9, 2007 at 2:25 pm
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Earlier this week, certain questions were brought to my attention regarding the System Defense Filters and Policies regarding implementing a Quarantine. The System defense document clearly states that AMT has a built-in Pass filter for DHCP transmit messages but AMT does not have this built-in Pass filter for DHCP receive messages. This means that, in [...]
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A Quick Update on the Intel® SCS 3.1
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on August 7, 2007 at 3:15 pm
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Announcing an update to the SCS 3.1 - We have made some updates to the SCS 3.1 located on the Manageability Website. Here is what changed: SCS 3.1 sample scripts contained the following errors that were fixed Correction of the script creating an auxiliary table in the DB Removal of timeout in script Changes in the names of the scripts Added [...]
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New Power Packages: Yes Virginia, AMT 3.0 systems have these too!
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on August 2, 2007 at 8:51 am
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And "Yes Virginia, you must have AMT 3.0 Hardware in order to take advantage of them." I recently blogged about the new Power Packages included with AMT 2.5/2.6. Here I will include what's new with AMT 3.0. AMT 3.0 also provides support for multiple power policies and supports configuration of the maximum Power State where Intel AMT will operate. Power Packages [...]
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Announcing SCS 3.1 and what is new from SCS 3.0
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on July 30, 2007 at 5:33 pm
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Well, a couple weeks ago we posted the new Intel SCS 3.0 (Supporting AMT 2.2, 2.5, 2.6, and 3.0) onto the Manageability Community Developer's website and now there is an updated release containing additional enhancements (SCS 3.1.) Here's what's new: AMT 2.2/AMT 3.0 Feature: Support for the Remote Configuration Tool (RCT), including new APIs and a new SCS user [...]
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Intel® AMT and the Scoop on IPV6 vs IPV4
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on July 18, 2007 at 9:18 am
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One of the questions that I get often is about to what extent IPV6 can be used with Intel® AMT. There are three documents in the SDK that cover how they are used in APIs (Intel® AMT WS-Management Flows, the Network Interface Guide, and the System Defense and Agent Presence Overview documents.) This blog post is [...]
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Announcing a brand new Intel® AMT SDK!
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on July 17, 2007 at 9:46 am
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I'm sure it is what we all have been waiting for on the Manageability Community Developer's web site: an updated Intel® AMT SDK supporting the new AMT releases 2.2, 2.6 and 3.0 (What happened to AMT 2.5? It is now AMT 2.6!) I will use this post to describe what has changed from AMT 2.1. AMT 2.2: (Desktops [...]
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SCS 3.0 Documentation Update (for Scripting)
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on July 15, 2007 at 7:33 pm
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It has been brought to our attention that there is an error in the SCS Documentation that affects both the SCS 1.2 and the 3.0 releases which is applicable to developers who are writing their own script. The Environment Variable called CS_AMT_ADDR should actually be referenced as CS_AMT_ADDRESS. The document has been updated and will be [...]
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CentrinoPro Platforms and Power Packages (what are these??)
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on July 11, 2007 at 10:56 am
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We all know that Power Management is one of the new features in AMT 2.5, right? Well maybe not. With Mobile Processing mixed with Intel AMT mixed with battery life, what could be a better topic? AMT 2.5 provides support for multiple power policies and supports configuration of the maximum Power State where Intel AMT will operate. Power [...]
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Bookmark These! (All about Intel® AMT)
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on July 3, 2007 at 10:02 am
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Updated: Aug 7, 2007 - There are so many websites that have really good information pertaining to Intel® AMT that I thought it would be nice to have them in one place. (This is a living blog post.) Intel's Manageability Community Site: http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/home/manageability.aspx Intel® AMT - Manageability Community Forum: http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/Community/en-US/forums/2436/ShowForum.aspx Look at the most current blog posts: http://softwareblogs.intel.com/ Intel® AMT Access [...]
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Moving from Intel® SCS 1.2 to Intel® SCS 3.0 - Tell me more!
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on July 2, 2007 at 9:56 am
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With this post I would like to welcome the new and improved Intel® SCS 3.0 which is now available on the Intel Manageability Community Website: http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/home/manageability.aspx. Here is what is new in the Intel SCS 3.0: (Note that while it will be necessary to have an OEM system that supports AMT 2.2, AMT 2.5, or AMT 3.0 to implement the following [...]
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The Microsoft vs. Apple Clock is Ticking
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on June 22, 2007 at 8:04 pm
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Age 71: My mom gets her own computer. It is a Macintosh. It's huge. It was $50 at a garage sale. It was acquired at this garage sale by my nephew in Seattle. (He is a MacFan and currently works at an Apple store and is a member of a band that I cannot type the title to on [...]
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More Photos from Research@Intel Day
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on June 21, 2007 at 11:20 am
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I had the oppurtunity to attend Research Day at Intel this week. What an amazing event. It began with Justin Rattner, Intel's CTO giving participants a glimpse of the fascinating research projects that we would be looking at throughout the day. Reasearchers from all over the world were here to show us what technologies they are [...]
Category: Gaming, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Multicore
Just the FAQs: My "Living" FAQ Blog
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on June 14, 2007 at 3:10 pm
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This post shall contain very important information that I don't feel like hunting for every time I need it! I will be adding information as I bump into it. Updated: August 09, 2007 Q: How do I turn on the error logs for the Intel SCS application? - 08/09/07 A: You can do this by going into the registry as follows: [...]
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Intel SCS, SCA, AMT Director - You've Been Provisioned!
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on June 13, 2007 at 9:04 am
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Everyone knows that in order to be able to use Intel® AMT features, one must first enable AMT via the ME BIOS extentions and provision the system in either Small Business Mode (very easy and can be done quicky inside the AMT Configuration in the BIOs extentions) or Enterprise Mode (which requires a provisioning server and PID/PPS keys). But what developers don't [...]
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Intel® AMT 2.5: New Feature - Environment Detection
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on June 11, 2007 at 2:11 pm
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One of the new features with Intel® AMT 2.5 (for Centrino Pro) is called "Environment Detection." Since Intel AMT is now available on wireless notebooks, one of the most frequent questions I get is: How does Intel AMT work if I'm away from my office and connected to a foreign network that is not directly interconnected [...]
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Are UUIDs Enterprise Worthy?
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on June 8, 2007 at 8:41 am
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In a managed environment, it is important that all hardware assets have a unique identifier so as to not have naming conflicts (unless this environment is managed by a bunch of mathamaticians who just happen to enjoy a little chaos.) This unique identifier is known as the UUID. UUID stands for: Universally Unique ID. The UUID format as defined in [...]
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Intel® AMT: Local vs. Remote APIs
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on June 1, 2007 at 8:57 am
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This is another blog post resulting from our Manageability Forum posts. (You've been blogged!) Often, when developers dive into the Intel® SDK, they find their way to the Agent Presence Sample code, they try to register the agent and then they get a failure "Soap Error 22." (I know, I've done this, but I did not do it [...]
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Intel® AMT Goes Mobile!
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on May 22, 2007 at 3:01 pm
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With the recent launch of Centrino Pro we are starting to get questions on our Manageability Forum about how Intel® AMT will be supported on a mobile platform, or should I say, what are the limitations. Since the associated documentation, white papers, new SDK are not available on the Manageability Community site quite yet (but will be soon!), [...]
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That Intel® AMT Status Message...
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on May 14, 2007 at 3:06 pm
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There has been quite some discussion on the Manageability Forum concerning the AMT Status Window that pops up and tells folks whether their system is AMT Enabled or not. Even though a checkbox has been added to the window that will stop displaying it, I am hearing that they just don't want it to appear [...]
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Intel® AMT: Emulator, RDK, SDK, DTK - what are they for?
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on May 14, 2007 at 7:37 am
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There seems to be some confusion on our Manageability Forum with regards to the various Tools that we have as downloads on the Manageability Community Site. Here are some brief descriptions and when to use them: RDK: Reference Design Kit - This is a "solution" written in Java on Linux provided to help folks implement Intel® [...]
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Is the Firewall On Again??
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on May 10, 2007 at 10:59 pm
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We all know that the State motto for New Mexico is "Red or Green" but how many folks know what the Intel® AMT motto is? I've decided it must be: "Did the firewall get turned on again??????" It seems like no matter how good we are about making sure the Windows Firewall on our Intel® AMT [...]
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Who Stole my Cookies!
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on February 14, 2007 at 8:07 am
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My System Hardening Blog was inspired last week when I was maintaining my Mother's laptop. This post is inspired by one of the comments to that Blog. I was trying to keep it simple since she (and she represents a huge on-line population) doesn't really understand Cookies, Firewalls, Router Passwords, etc. The funny thing is: I [...]
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System Hardening - Basic Tips
By Gael Holmes (Intel) (55 posts) on February 12, 2007 at 5:05 pm
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My life is on my computer! How safe is my life? (A precursor to my thoughts on Intel® Active Management Technology) I didn't' realize that it takes only a matter of minutes from the time a system is on the internet for an attack to occur. Today's hackers have software that is constantly looking for unprotected systems. Since [...]