We performed a comparison between Kace Systems Deployment Appliance and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."The conditional access policies that we set up are very useful."
"Autopilot is a great feature. Most users are looking for a zero-touch deployment."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management."
"The synchronization of Intune with other Microsoft solutions is a valuable feature."
"The ability to send configurations to our systems is valuable, particularly as we don't have a regular Windows AD server. Our current environment doesn't have a Windows AD, which limits our ability to push GPOs. However, this is where the solution can step in and help us push policies."
"The dashboards, the security, and the customization capabilities work very well for us."
"It is user-friendly, and the performance is also good. It is a convenient product"
"Its ticketing is pretty good."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is the software deployment. Additionally, Microsoft integrates most of the other solutions well with one another."
"It is a very good solution. It has a good interface and is easy to use. On top of that, it is very reliable in terms of distribution as well as getting the report."
"The cloud account management is a valuable feature."
"Offers good patching."
"The product is very stable compared to older versions."
"Automation of operating system, application, and update deployments massively reduces IT operations effort."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is valuable in keeping our systems updated. We are able to send updates to all the systems. Additionally, the Intune integration is helpful."
"Valuable features include configurations enforcement, compliance data gathering, and deployment of a standardized OS."
"Lacking in features such as Wi-Fi and network security."
"One big problem with Microsoft is that they're changing the names of the products quite often, or they're quite consistently doing so. Intune is now Endpoint administration. Constantly switching the user interface or the administrative interface makes it quite hard to keep pace. If you are on a two-week holiday and you come back and look at the same screen you have looked at for the last couple of months, it looks different, which is annoying. Changing things around all the time doesn't make it easy."
"We would like to see support for Chrome and/or devices for Chromebooks."
"The solution could be improved by the opportunity to connect third-party application databases, such as Chocolatey or another setup store, to Intune."
"Areas for improvement in Intune include expanding support beyond Samsung devices to accommodate other Android manufacturers like Redmi and Motorola."
"There are items that require improvements. One is the controls from iOS."
"Microsoft Intune lacks the ability to provide seamless remote assistance or remote control."
"The most important thing is reporting. They should improve their reporting. They should give a free hand to users. In SCCM, I can create my own reports. For example, in SCCM, I can create an inventory report for my PC or for all PCs, but in Intune, we don't have an option to create any report. Microsoft claims that Intune is a successor of SCCM, but SCCM is more powerful than Intune. So, they should develop Intune more and make it equivalent to SCCM. Then, their product will be great in the market."
"I have heard feedback that the imaging is slow. It takes somewhere around an hour to image one PC."
"The TSM component could be improved."
"The availability of technical support could improve."
"The database should be made to be more stable and robust, but not so much the configuration."
"In terms of the monitoring, the timeframe it takes to actually report back on the compliance of a device after it has been patched is a bit too long."
"The assets have reached their end-of-life, and patching them is a complex and laborious task. It would be highly advantageous if there were an integrated solution that provided distinct options for each end-of-life asset, streamlining the process and facilitating comprehension."
"Management of Linux devices could be improved."
"The solution can be improved by speeding up the synchronizing of the policies on the devices."
"The reports are too busy. They could be simpler. I'm a technician, so I don't care how pretty the reports look. They should be easy to read. I'm designing this for production folks. They need to read the reports quickly when they're patching in the middle of the night."
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Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is ranked 28th in Configuration Management while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 78 reviews. Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is rated 7.0, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Kace Systems Deployment Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good ticketing but accessing inventory needs to be easier". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is most compared with , whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and AWS Systems Manager.
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