WARNING: the steps described below can and will brick your machine if performed improperly, make sure to always have a backup of your SPI Flash and a way to recover from a bad flash. Additionally, this will void your warranty. Some machines of the exact same model and configuration are

In order to switch a client to Admin Control Mode, depending on your setup you may have to perform additional steps. We assume the client has already been configured and is working in Client Control Mode as the steps are identical except additional configuration in certain cases. If you created

After CCM (Client Control Mode) has been confirmed working, we can now attempt to switch to ACM (Admin Control Mode) if we want to overcome the user consent requirement. This process is more involved as it requires rolling out our own certificates and adding a hash to each client'

Now that we have a basic server setup we can switch to the client. We will demonstrate a setup using Ubuntu 22.04 as the operating system, but any relatively modern distribution should do, or even possibly Windows. All the actions in this article are performed on a client machine.

In order to enroll a client, we first need to create an AMT profile. The easiest is to create a CCM (Client Control Mode) profile. However, this kind of profile has one limitation: user consent is always required for KVM or remote serial. User consent means that the user (in

In this article we will be installing the Open AMT Cloud Toolkit stack on our server. You can look at the Get Started guide in the official documentation for the installation and configuration steps, but we provide some additional details below. Setup a Linux machine This part is left to

In this series of articles we will look at setting up Open AMT Cloud Toolkit for remote management of Intel AMT-compatible computers. Intel AMT Intel AMT (Active Management Technology) is a feature available on Corporate platforms from Intel, handled by the Intel ME (Management Engine) embedded inside the PCH. While