We performed a comparison between Ivanti Security Controls and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Patch Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Technical support is helpful and responsive."
"What has been most valuable is the ability to manage, restore and install upgrades and applications. We scan PCs and server and receive results."
"Technical support is very helpful and very responsive."
"It is a good choice for deployment that performs very well."
"The solution effectively handles inventory management, deployment, and reporting."
"With the right administrator, application deployment can do wonders."
"This solution helps us by automating the patching of our system."
"The initial setup is straightforward and not too complicated."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is patch management."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is very scalable."
"For the Windows upgrade, the errors we experience are not clear. We see a time out error but do not know the reason. We would like to know the root cause."
"It should be more scalable."
"Management of Linux devices could be improved."
"Our company would prefer not rebooting computers while people are using them. There seems to be no strategy behind it."
"The tool's deployment is difficult. Microsoft needs to improve documentation with videos."
"There is a reboot issue with the patching. Sometimes, if patching runs into any issue whatsoever, it doesn't reboot but it doesn't tell you it errored out. It just sits there and we don't find out until the next day whether it patched or not. That was a big issue for us. We're working through that. They added some stuff in there now where you can actually tell reboot is pending. But we still need some kind of notification that if something fails or is pending, we know. We shouldn't have to go in and look. They don't have anything for that right now."
"I would like to see some improvements in WSUS and control of other, non-Microsoft, product updates."
"Initial setup was complex. There's a lot that goes into it."
"It would be better if automation options were available. For example, in Nexthink or SysTrack, there is an analytical tool. Creating dashboards would be very easy if you implement the same thing in Microsoft. That report will be a daily cost to the customers and good revenue for our organization. The price also could be better. In the next release, we need to include some features like tables, dashboards, surveys, services, and metrics in the dashboard. Whatever we are implementing will be downloaded by a report. Apart from the report, we will telecast from the dashboard. It's very easy to compare, and it will be easy to telecast to the end-users."
"Regarding this, I'd like to mention the agent situation. When the agent on an end-user device is not functioning correctly, it can be quite problematic. It would be highly beneficial if there were a self-healing mechanism in place. Essentially, if the agent becomes corrupted or encounters issues, it should be able to rectify itself autonomously. This is particularly critical because, in order to utilize a tool like MECM (assuming you're referring to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager), we need to deploy agents, known as AsMs, on all the devices we use, such as Windows 10 or Windows Server. Sometimes, when we deploy configurations or updates, they don't apply properly due to agent issues. This issue has been present since we began using MECM around 23 years ago. Unfortunately, there is currently no built-in mechanism for the agent to detect its own problems and initiate self-repair. Microsoft doesn’t have any feature to scan vulnerabilities and hence, they could include those."
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Ivanti Security Controls is ranked 14th in Patch Management with 2 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 1st in Patch Management with 78 reviews. Ivanti Security Controls is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Ivanti Security Controls writes "Straightforward to set up and good support but needs to be on the cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". Ivanti Security Controls is most compared with Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Ivanti Patch for Linux, UNIX, Mac, Ivanti Patch for Endpoint Manager, Ivanti Neurons Patch for Intune and NinjaOne, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Microsoft Intune and Tanium. See our Ivanti Security Controls vs. Microsoft Configuration Manager report.
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