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Remote Management of AMT/vPro machine with WinPE and VNC

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:36:37 +0000

Intel vPro/AMT enabled systems allow you to remotely reboot a system from a redirected CD-ROM aka as IDE-R. So if one of your users devices doesn’t boot its OS properly anymore, you can remotely boot that system with a diagnostics CD that you have stored on your local disk drive.

As long as that recovery CD has a text based interface such as the SystemRescueCD the system can be remotely managed through the remote VT100 terminal, but unfortunately that doesn’t work for graphical interfaces such as WinPE. So we need an alternative method to remotely manage that device. Since Microsoft’s own remote desktop (RDP) does not work under Windows PE, we are going to use VNC which is small and FREE.

Intel vPro review

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:37:07 +0000

Okay, I must admit, I don’t believe in all Gartner is publishing, but while I was looking for some additional information around “DASH” I found the following interesting “Revisiting vPro for Corporate Purchases” article from Gartner, worth a read.

Intel vPro - Known Issues, Best Practices, and Workarounds

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:00:20 +0000

Today when working on a vPro related issue, we came across the Intel vPro - Known Issues, Best Practices and Workarounds page. For those who deal with vPro it’s definitely worth reading that content.

vPro colors in BIOS

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:48:16 +0000

When remotely accessing the system BIOS of a HP Compaq dc7800 desktop machine using vPro, the BIOS appears in black and white as shown in the picture below:

to get the native BIOS colors you must configure the terminal emulator mode to ANSI

then, the BIOS will appear with colors as if you were sitting in front of the physical machine.

Thanks to Claude Henchoz for the hint.

Intel vPro Expert center

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:35:50 +0000

Michele from Intel was kind enough to send me the link to the Intel vPro Expert center

Another good link is the Intel vPro Expert Center. We post all of our user documentation, training, etc up there - plus we get really good dialog going between end users and the engineers.

Never heard of vPro before ?

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:13:01 +0000

Well then it’s time now to get familiar with it. Since about 2 years Intel is shipping vPro technology, but still many people aren’t familiar with this technology or haven’t even heard of it at all, for those I recommend to look at these demonstration movies:

http://www.intel.com/business/business-pc/demo/demo.htm http://www.intel.com/business/enterprise/emea/eng/vpro/demo/

or watch the intel vPro demo from the MMS 2008 keynote

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlj7u3tOQ9s