Topic last updated—May 2008

The AMT Provisioning and Discovery Account is functionally equivalent to the AMT Remote Admin Account and resides in the Management Engine BIOS extension (MEBx) of AMT-based computers. This account is used by the server running the out of band service point role to manage some network interface features of AMT in Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, by using the out of band management feature. The AMT Provisioning and Discovery Account specified in Configuration Manager must match the AMT Remote Admin Account name and password specified in the BIOS extensions in the AMT-based computers.

Note
The information in this topic applies only to Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 and later.

You must specify an AMT Provisioning and Discovery Account in either of the following migration scenarios:

Specify the account name and password on the Provisioning Settings tab of the Out of Band Management component properties. During the AMT provisioning and discovery process, each AMT Provisioning and Discovery account specified will be tried in turn.

Required Rights and Permissions

There are no required rights and permissions for this account.

Account and Password Creation

The AMT Provisioning and Discovery Account refers to the AMT Remote Admin Account, which cannot be manually created; it is created in the AMT firmware. The associated password can be created by AMT or by an AMT management solution during the provisioning process.

Account Location

The account is stored in the Management Engine BIOS extensions of the AMT-based computer. This account does not correspond to any account in Windows.

Account Maintenance

There is no associated account maintenance in Configuration Manager for the AMT Provisioning and Discovery Account.

Security Best Practices

There are no security best practices in Configuration Manager for the AMT Provisioning and Discovery Account.

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