What is a one sentence summary of your feature request?
Better management of Serial Port devices
Please describe your idea in detail. What is your problem, why do you feel this idea is the best solution, etc.
In my environment we use Intel AMT/vPro and this creates a serial port device on each computer and these get blocked by EPP and I’m having to manually allow for each one. Looking to have some kind of automatic solution to simplify the management.
They are always named Intel(R) Active Management Technology - SOL (COM3) with a description of Intel(R) Active Management Technology - SOL (COM3)/Intel and there is no associated VID/PID, all of the info goes into the serial number field and looks like this:
COM_PCI_VEN_8086_DEV_51E3_SUBSYS_0B121028_REV_01_3_11583659_1_B3_6RW87HOB140917E5O4FVS73O8
The first part COM_PCI_VEN_8086_DEV_ is always the same, but the DEV ID can be different depending on the hardware model and the revisions/actual serial numbers are always different. Here are a few more for reference:
COM_PCI_VEN_8086_DEV_51E3_SUBSYS_0B1A1028_REV_01_3_11583659_0_B3_6RXBQXF9TKKAX2V7V7P1WN7NZ
COM_PCI_VEN_8086_DEV_7E73_SUBSYS_0CC21028_REV_20_3_11583659_0_B3_6RYM59XROX5KFIW1PL1EJO8FF
COM_PCI_VEN_8086_DEV_9DE3_SUBSYS_08E01028_REV_30_3_11583659_0_B3_1VQY3JAWFH8SLHYO4K7BNUCL4P
I have a similar use case for ACPI devices on Windows 365 that get blocked that I’m having to manually allow at the moment.
Always named Communications Port (COM2) with description of Communications Port (COM2)/(Standard port types) and no VID/PID at all, everything goes into the Serial Number field and looks like this:
COM_ACPI_PNP0501_2_1VR4PTYF2P22J10XO3EUPI59C9
COM_ACPI_PNP0501_2_1VREFOOT7H1HILWS87U0C88A2N
COM_ACPI_PNP0501_2_OE0ZZHKMBCE7TWC21P0YKUQ7
COM_ACPI_PNP0501_2_OE18AKDWQRV43YZHFZS9RYUG
How do you currently solve the challenges you have by not having this feature?
Created custom classes and set to allow access and then add the devices into the custom class one by one as they get discovered.