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Intel and Symantec and released a user-friendly E-book entitled:
Turn Sustainable IT Strategies into Real ROI

Please go to this link to take a look, and feel free to pass the link along:
http://symantecintelalliance.com/ebook

The Symantec Zone on the Intel vPro Expert Center site has gone live!

Follow this Link for access: http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/...

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.

The Intel vPro Manageability Toolkit requires a large number of prerequisites and installs to properly complete the full install. It is recommended to use the Solution Center if possible so that all prerequisites are automatically installed.

Q:
How does Inventory Forwarding affect Inventory Solution Licensing?

In a secure network environment, it's important to know what Ports are accessed and utilized by your management applications. Network Discovery is an agentless discovery tool that allows the Notification Server to go out on the wire and discover what devices exist. This tech tip covers what ports are used by Network Discovery, including their corresponding protocol.

How does the Software Portal manage Tasks and Collections for Software Requests?

Get answers to these modern mysteries and a few extras thrown in for good measure.

When running a Network Discovery, Intel vPro AMT systems are not discovered, or AMT Inventory is not collected.

Read on to get an explanation of the problem and a way to get around it.

Having issues with the AMTConfig service and don't mind reading debug logs, or you need to escalate an issue to Intel or Altiris? The following process can capture debug logging for the AMTConfig service.

Here are the step-by-steps to follow if you find yourself needing to move your NS Tasks and/or Packages from one server to another.