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 Asset Management and Auto Pilot are valuable features."
"The best feature is that we don't need to worry about downtime. We don't need to worry about the network connections of our office or the virtual private network. Everything is being done through the internet. Using Intune Autopilot, we can configure and deploy everything to the devices."
"Intune is effective because of the configuration management and endpoint security it provides. The graphical interface makes it easier to configure and deploy devices."
"It helps implement conditional access policies to restrict mobile users from accessing potentially dangerous emails."
"It has improve our organization through the remote management of non-domain joined devices."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune."
"One of the most valuable aspects of Microsoft Intune is its seamless integration with Azure Active Directory, offering capabilities akin to Group Policy Objects."
"We use a local Active Directory, but we weren't able to manage all our on-site systems without a solution like Intune, and we needed to deploy software like VPNs and other things. It's seamless now to to this through Intune."
"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 major features of this product are the reporting tools. The most valuable features are package deployment and application deployment. Security management is also good because any vulnerability will be identified, and you can fix it. It's the best tool because you never know what kind of client you will have. For example, you may have your offices in low bandwidth remote areas. But it's achievable because it accommodates the bandwidth that you have available. Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is an excellent reporting tool for your environment. If you want to know the details about the hardware configuration, software configuration, what is causing a problem, or when a new feature update comes in for Windows, even that goes on SCCM itself. A lot of deployment stuff."
"This solution has made life easy with respect to patching, compliance, and OSD."
"The technical support is good."
"The cloud account management is a valuable feature."
"It's helped us solve problems surrounding patching, installing, and reporting different patches, etc., on the virtual machines."
"What's valuable is the basic management of the systems, being able to control who can access the systems."
"It saves a lot of money when you can install things automatically and they are installed the exact same way on every computer."
"Patch management is, for sure, most valuable. For license management and patch management, I would rate it a 10 out of 10."
"Satellite gives administrators the ability to target deployments and only send out the updates or provision updates to certain groups."
"The compliance auditing helped me a lot."
"The product is convenient to use."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Satellite are its support, simplicity, and patch management."
"It has been a stable solution...It is a totally scalable solution."
"Technical support has been good."
"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 feature that allows us to import the business application from the configuration manager to Intune is not very good at this time."
"They should make it easier to order it, however, that's generally true for everything from Microsoft."
"Intune doesn't provide much control over Windows servers. It's something we struggle with."
"Integrating certain group policies can be challenging and may necessitate using on-premises systems to integrate them with Microsoft Intune."
"The UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"Microsoft Intune needs to improve the initial login process."
"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."
"I think that there is room for improvement with the reporting. If this is done, it will be a better product."
"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."
"Troubleshooting in general needs improvement. There's just a ton of logs to go through, and so finding the error log that corresponds with that you're doing can sometimes be difficult."
"The product needs to improve scalability."
"It would be better if reporting were more user-friendly. I would like to see an upgrade in the reporting structure in the next release. At the moment, you have to use an SQL query or configure it to pull reports through the graphical user interface. Their updates could be more regular. I think Mircosoft updates it every six months. They are also moving many things to Intune, and Microsoft decided to move the deployment solution there. I think SCCM is getting old, and Intune is new."
"Could do with some cosmetic improvements on the user interface."
"There's no way to say, "I want this maintenance window to be on the second Tuesday of the month." It's strict. This window is this and that's it. You can't fluctuate."
"The solution should be more compatible with different versions of Linux."
"The database should be made to be more stable and robust, but not so much the configuration."
"The product could have more diversity in what it is able to deploy and might do better if it was not dedicated to Red Hat products only."
"It is difficult to update and maintain."
"They could make it more easy to use and improve the GUI so that it's more intuitive."
"It has not been significantly updated in a while."
"Red Hat Satellite has a short life cycle and we constantly need to update."
"The documentation could be better."
"Improving integration could lead to a more unified management experience for multiple operating systems within our data center."
"Automation can always be improved and refined to continue to make it better."
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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 21 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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