We performed a comparison between HashiCorp Terraform and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."A valuable feature is user enrollment, where users can enroll their devices in their organizations themselves."
"We are a remote company, and the product helps us manage the global endpoints. It helps us natively manage the endpoints in the cloud from anywhere."
"Maturity makes it a stable product."
"There has been a noticeable increase in productivity for both my organization and clients."
"Agile and easy to deploy MDM solution that covers the maximum number of policies. Stable, scalable, and with knowledgeable technical support."
"One of the standout features of Intune is its seamless accessibility to work data, eliminating the need to be tied to an office or a desktop."
"It has a useful device management feature."
"We have one MDM that works with Windows, iOS, and Android."
"The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Terraform is the custom modules."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is the coding of our infrastructure. You can code it once and run it multiple times."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its simplicity of SQL language, its compatibility with multiple cloud providers, and its modules like the open source modules available, especially considering the fact that I work mainly on AWS."
"The ARM template is very easy to work with, which is a big help to us."
"It is the customization of Terraform's modules that I find most valuable."
"It is a stable solution."
"Modules can be reused extremely easily."
"One of the most valuable features is that it offers the ability to create a VPC, Virtual Private Cloud and VPN connectivity to the VPC can be automated without having to do it manually."
"It's helped us solve problems surrounding patching, installing, and reporting different patches, etc., on the virtual machines."
"Microsoft Configuration Manager gives different tools in one solution."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to learn."
"With the SCCM inventory, we found a lot of rogue applications. We were able to identify them, find out who was running them, and either put them on our application list or remove them."
"It has the ability to perform mass distribution."
"We are happy with the collaboration of SCCM with Patch My PC, which allows us to do patch work."
"I have found the solution to be scalable. We have around 50,000 users using the solution."
"The solution is stable."
"There should be more support for macOS. Even though macOS is supported by Intune and Microsoft is working very hard to get more features into Intune to manage macOS, that's one thing they can give a lot more attention to."
"Additional application deployment options e.g. MSI deployment with more complex parameters or additional side-by-side files, and non-MSI deployment options."
"I think there should be a better tracking of the cell phones used on the Intune."
"Intune's third-party patch management could be better. It should be easier for the average system admin to keep non-Microsoft applications updated."
"I know that their AI pieces are at the infancy stage, but allowing users to do more tagging for information would be an interesting thing because Intune also directly integrates with Azure. Because a lot of the devices are hosted with that, you also get a lot of tagging of user data and other things like that."
"Reporting could be improved. It needs to be more expensive and robust."
"Lacking in features such as Wi-Fi and network security."
"I wanted to check if there is any provision at the Intune level to restrict certain things, such as a website, but unfortunately, that feature is available only in Microsoft Defender. Intune has web filtering capabilities, but they are only useful for protection from malicious websites, whereas we would like to be able to restrict a website. For example, YouTube is a clean website. No one would identify it as a malicious website, but if we want to stop the end-users from going to that website, we have to go for another product, such as Microsoft Defender or another third-party proxy solution. It would be great if this capability is included in Intune."
"The solution is missing a lot of properties for specific resources."
"If you are copying something from a well running machine to a remote machine, there are some issues with the current version, but it is acceptable."
"From a user's perspective, it would be great if a UI tool is made available in the open source version as well, but I don't think it may be introduced because of the high costs for it announced by HashiCorp in its licensed version...HashiCorp Terraform can improve backward compatibility."
"It would be nice if they could put our infrastructure on graphics or at least provide a map of our infrastructure."
"I would like to see a short-term option for a short-term plan."
"Lacks flexibility in common programming languages."
"Terraform lacks in running script."
"The integration with this solution needs to be improved."
"The tool's deployment can be cumbersome."
"The deployment process is lengthy and should be quicker to complete."
"Not everything is readily available, and there are a lot of commands that are only executable via PowerShell."
"In terms of scalability, I believe there's room for improvement. While SCCM is capable of handling our current needs effectively, scalability could be enhanced to accommodate future growth and larger deployments."
"The cost of the product can be improved."
"The main thing is that SCCM has to become an appliance instead of a server. When I say appliance, it has to come preconfigured so that it is drop-shipped into the enterprise and then you activate the feature sets that you want. It should pull down all the latest binaries. Once that is all there, it should have a discovery tool which goes out and discovers the assets within an enterprise. If the server, workstation, and applications are all coming from the same vendor, why not have the vendor do this work for us and automate it as much as it possibly can?"
"Microsoft should extend support for additional platforms."
"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."
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HashiCorp Terraform is ranked 7th in Configuration Management with 38 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 78 reviews. HashiCorp Terraform is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HashiCorp Terraform writes "Easy to use, technically strong, and great for multi-provider or multi-cloud environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". HashiCorp Terraform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, SaltStack, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BMC TrueSight Server Automation and SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and AWS Systems Manager. See our HashiCorp Terraform vs. Microsoft Configuration Manager report.
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