The information found in these blogs are going to be a tremendous help to me in the future. At the moment, however, my enterprise is not using the AMT management functions. I will be doing some analysis for my group. My immediate need is a simple step-by-step procedure on how to disable all AMT features including BIOS and drivers to prevent an incomplete setup from causing issues. First things first, how do I completely disable this feature? Then, time allowing, I can learn how to properly setup and provision this feature.
I have three new desktops, with various errors in Windows pop-ups, and in the application event logs. (one example is : [UNS] Failed to subscribe to local Intel(R) AMT., another error said AMT prvented system from booting)
I shouldn't have tinkered with these until I fully understood the provisining procedure, but I did.
The three systems are Dell Optiplex 755 with E6850 processors Core 2 Duo @ 3.00GHz. I have the Ctrl-P option to access the MEBx BIOS. I see no AMT related services running, and no errors in the device manager.
There are three Intel drivers available for my systems:
http://ftp.us.dell.com/chipset/R162291.exe Intel Chipset S/W Install Utility
http://ftp.us.dell.com/chipset/R162295.EXE Intel AMT HECI
http://ftp.us.dell.com/chipset/R162296.EXE Intel AMT SOL/ LMS
What do I do to get these features back to the default turned off state?
