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My Favorite Online Resources for Intel vPro and Altiris

Terry Cutler — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:06:34 -0500

Frequently I get asked for my favorite online sites, articles and materials in regards to Intel vPro and the Altiris client management environment. Here's a summary - and I'm open to additions by others.

Intel | Altiris

Example Use Case for Intel vPro technology

Terry Cutler — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:04:13 -0500

With all the posting and information about configuring or provisioning Intel vPro technology, it might help to keep the end goal in mind. Configuring of the technology is a necessary step to realizing how it is used.

Intel | Altiris

Supported USB Keys for Intel vPro

Terry Cutler — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:38:02 -0500

For environments wanting to use USB one-touch to enterprise provision Intel vPro systems - here are some tips and pointers on supported USB keys and ensuring the USB key partitions are setup correctly.

Intel | Altiris

Script to Open Real-Time System Manager

Terry Cutler — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:02:32 -0500

In connection with Joel's article on Improving Load Performance in Real-Time Systems Manager, the following VBscript provides a shortcut to opening an RTSM page for a system.

Intel | Altiris

What Intel vPro Features are Supported in the Sept 2007 Release?

Terry Cutler — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:07:48 -0500

In mid September of this year (2007), the updates to Altiris RTSM, OOBM, and OOBSC provided support for the following Intel vPro and Centrino Pro capabilities:

Intel | Altiris

Wrapping MSI and MST

ropree — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:22:28 -0500

Here are the steps I followed to create an .EXE which contains MSI and MST. Hopefully this will help other application packagers faced with the same challenge.

Application Packaging

Team Resources for a Successful Intel vPro Project

Terry Cutler — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:59:10 -0500

The following is a summary list of key project team roles for successful Intel vPro projects. This is a summary from experiences based on real-world engagements with real-world customers.

Some items may seem obvious - yet sometimes oversight on the "obvious" is what leads to unfortunate realities.

Intel | Altiris

Out of Band Manager Scalability Q&A for SCS 1.2

Joel Smith — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:01:09 -0500

Recent erroneous reports regarding scalability of Altiris Out of Band Manager have occurred. The following Q&A was developed with Intel input and approval and corrects this misinformation. This document is intended to be used reactively if you encounter this misinformation.

Intel | Altiris

Waking up the Intel Management Engine

Terry Cutler — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:33:31 -0500

The Intel® AMT management engine (ME) can be placed in a sleep state depending on the host systems power state. A common default setting is that the ME is on regardless of the host systems power state (unless of course the power has been totally removed from the system).

Intel | Altiris

Hardware Inventory for Intel® AMT systems

Terry Cutler — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:29:03 -0500

Each time an Intel® AMT capable device boots, data (listed below) is recorded into the NVRAM (non-volatile RAM).

Thus if a variance occurs between system boots, an alert is noted within the Intel® AMT logs and event manager. In addition, should a replacement part be needed, the exact data can be obtained.

Intel | Altiris