We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration Manager and Red Hat Satellite 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."The biggest thing for us is enforcing logins only from devices that are managed by Intune."
"Autopilot is a great feature. Most users are looking for a zero-touch deployment."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune."
"...Intune itself integrates with that entire Microsoft ecosystem. As an individual product itself, it's okay. It holds up. But when you start saying "I've bought this as part of a wider solution, as a company we are going Microsoft throughout," then it makes more sense to have Microsoft Intune... so you have that single dashboard."
"I believe that the solution is actually in Gartner's top quadrant at the moment for mobile device management."
"Technical support, in general, has been quite helpful."
"It is a very helpful solution."
"Its protection policies are most valuable. It protects mobile devices as well as individual apps. It is pretty scalable, and its documentation is also pretty good. It is also pretty straightforward to deploy."
"We have found the scalability to be quite good."
"You can remote control or RDP. That has been the most valuable because we can go into one console and can get to anything we want. Instead of going to all these different consoles, we centralized everything."
"The tool's most valuable features are easy patch management and software deployment."
"The solution effectively handles inventory management, deployment, and reporting."
"It is easy to install, and quick to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical-based reports of software updates that have been successful, the ones that have failed, and a summary of where the failures are what security breaches may occur."
"It is a good choice for deployment that performs very well."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"The product allows us to handle patching for multiple servers at a time manually."
"I like the integration with other tools."
"Satellite gives administrators the ability to target deployments and only send out the updates or provision updates to certain groups."
"The product is convenient to use."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that you don't have to expose your mission-critical environment to the Internet. With the Satellite system in place, it acts as a barrier between your Red Hat infrastructure and the public Internet."
"We've been getting reasonable support from Red Hat."
"Previously, we were using one server to update from a different repository over the HTTP. We had to manually manage the updates on the repository server. Satellite made the process easier."
"The 'remote execution' feature further helps manage systems on a consistent basis."
"In the past, I raised some tickets for the enhancement feature, which was missing in Intune."
"Its configuration is fairly complicated. You have to do quite a bit of discovery to be able to deploy it for a customer. You have to ask them a lot of questions. So, its initial deployment is the biggest challenge. They should make it easier to deploy with the use of Wizards or something else. During the deployment stage, there could be profiles for the customers who are particularly wanting to use certain feature sets of Intune."
"When somebody has a customized application or their own company's application, we cannot deploy that application."
"The backend of Microsoft Intune needs to be improved. We have seen a little bit of delay as compared to other MDM solutions. That needs to be improved. A little bit more granularity should also be added"
"Once it's configured it is unobtrusive, but it does take some hands-on to configure and deploy it properly."
"I have a lot of Apple products in my environment. It would be nice to have an improved integration of Apple products with Microsoft Intune without Jam."
"What would make this product better is adding more security policies and features in the next upgrade."
"Microsoft Intune's support for Mac devices is lacking and could be improved."
"There is no asset management package included."
"Devices like smartphones and tablets are managed very well on VMware, however, they are absent in SCCM. I could configure iPad from the VMware site and it was done very easily. It should be just as possible on SCCM."
"A lot of experience is needed in terms of troubleshooting, as this is one of the most difficult tasks in MECM. We were seven people in a group and I was the only one that had the patience to do the troubleshooting at times."
"The configuration of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager could be improved, it is a bit complicated."
"It would be of benefit if Configuration Manager could be connected/integrated with multiple Microsoft Intune subscriptions rather than just one (the current limit)."
"The product needs to improve scalability."
"As far as load balancing across, they don't have that support yet, so that you can actually build multiple primaries and have it load balance across. They don't have any of that functionality yet. That would be a nice feature, to scale that way."
"The App to upgrades to the server needs to be improved."
"It has not been significantly updated in a while."
"The documentation could be better."
"Red Hat Satellite's pricing needs improvement."
"Regarding the product's ability to support third-party tools, Red Hat doesn't support all the layers from the open-source version of Linux."
"It wasn't easy in the beginning, and some effort was required to work it out. I already had the product documentation, but it was not well organized. It wasn't easy to follow. There were a lot of documents here and there."
"The product's automation capabilities need enhancement."
"The solution's initial setup is a little bit tricky."
"They could make it more easy to use and improve the GUI so that it's more intuitive."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 78 reviews while Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 22 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Satellite is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Satellite writes "A good product for managing patches and updates that could be more robust and up-to-date". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and Quest KACE Systems Management, whereas Red Hat Satellite is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SUSE Manager, AWS Systems Manager, BigFix and Chef. See our Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. Red Hat Satellite report.
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