We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration Manager and Puppet Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."A valuable feature is user enrollment, where users can enroll their devices in their organizations themselves."
"The most valuable feature is the policy CSPs."
"The reporting and analytics features in Microsoft Intune have been a lifesaver."
"At the moment, Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is scalable. We currently have tens of thousands of users within our organization using the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the UEM capabilities."
"One of the biggest advantages of Microsoft Intune is that it brings the management of Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and even Linux under a single pane of glass."
"Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable."
"What's valuable is the basic management of the systems, being able to control who can access the systems."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is it's incredibly simple to configure and execute changes in bulk, allowing for seamless deployment. With this solution, you can easily track the status of all modifications and send them with ease, making it a comprehensive and efficient solution for any necessary adjustments."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"This solution has made life easy with respect to patching, compliance, and OSD."
"We're a Microsoft-centric organization, so we are happy with the integration between products."
"We are happy with the collaboration of SCCM with Patch My PC, which allows us to do patch work."
"Anything that we manage through Puppet always runs perfectly."
"Puppet Enterprise has good functionalities."
"The main purpose for this automation tool would be: deploying, controlling, ordering change for the system and IT Infrastructure."
"The most valuable features are the agent, high load balancing, and overall robustness and features."
"Puppet Enterprise is a stable solution."
"Puppet Enterprise has reduced the time of production changes or environment changes."
"Puppet3 and 4 series provides optimum deployment solutions for infrastructure and applications."
"The versatility is great."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see some kind of analytics report."
"I would like to see the ability to deploy custom packages as a Windows 64-bit package, as opposed to the Windows 32-bit, which is the only one available now."
"The difficulty of the the roll out is surprisingly difficult considering this product is supposed to be an integrated part of the 365 suite."
"It just doesn't handle software updates well at all by itself. You need to be a scripting wizard to make those happen properly, or you use third-party tools. The Windows feature updates are very difficult to implement. I would like to see a proprietary built-in remote control tool. I know that they have Team Viewer integrated, but it is not seamless. It would be nice if they had a seamless remote desktop capability directly from the Intune console."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with Apple."
"An area for improvement is the absence of seamless integration, particularly with external dashboards."
"A new Intune feature allows application packaging, but it incurs additional licensing costs for a significant number of applications."
"It doesn't economize when you scale up. We have over 14,000 employees, and we have between 7,500 and 8,000 city-owned or personal devices being used to conduct city business. Its price can be improved. It is not a cheap solution."
"They need to improve the support for the Mac operating system."
"The availability of technical support could improve."
"It would be of benefit if Configuration Manager could be connected/integrated with multiple Microsoft Intune subscriptions rather than just one (the current limit)."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager can improve by allowing us to schedule the scripts, we don't have a script scheduling option and have to do it manually."
"One area of improvement is regarding the patching of Office 365 products. We have some difficulties on this side, and it can be improved."
"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."
"I currently need to increase my compliance level in the patching processes which this solution could improve on."
"The solution could improve the functionality for automating, license management. Additionally, more and better-looking reports are needed."
"The solution has really complex code, you have to understand the Ruby language. However, once you know the code then you can move ahead without any problems."
"Puppet Enterprise is more complex and difficult to configure."
"At the beginning the initial setup was kind of complex."
"Puppet Enterprise should improve the general extensibility for places where they can't install it."
"There's a lot of scope for enhancement on the DevSecOps side. They should definitely include features for compliance, for both the Linux and Windows side of the devices, as well as for network devices. Compliance is something they need to work on."
"We would like Puppet to add more integration for applications."
"It's a bit of a pain point to make sure that everything works once we've upgraded it because Puppet has been evolving pretty fast."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 78 reviews while Puppet Enterprise doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Configuration Management with 12 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while Puppet Enterprise 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 Puppet Enterprise writes "A set-it-and-forget-it management solution". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and AWS Systems Manager, whereas Puppet Enterprise is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Red Hat Satellite, BigFix, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Chef.
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