We performed a comparison between Ivanti Security Controls and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Patch Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Technical support is helpful and responsive."
"What has been most valuable is the ability to manage, restore and install upgrades and applications. We scan PCs and server and receive results."
"The most valuable features are Remote Connect, SUP, Cloud functionality, Report, Query, and third-party patching."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is very scalable."
"It uses detailed descriptions of the workstations, and that is good for me."
"This solution helps us by automating the patching of our system."
"It's a stable product."
"This solution has made life easy with respect to patching, compliance, and OSD."
"I like Mircosoft's technical support. Microsoft has a few updates, like some of the critical KBs. They are published within the interval time, and in case of an escalation on the client missions, we will raise a ticket with the Microsoft team. They will create a hotfix or a critical update. They will chat with us, and that is one thing I like about Microsoft. Whenever any issues occur at my organization, they will help you out soon as possible within the SLA."
"Software deployment and WSUS are most valuable."
"For the Windows upgrade, the errors we experience are not clear. We see a time out error but do not know the reason. We would like to know the root cause."
"It should be more scalable."
"Its client interface should be more accessible, and the notifications should be more customizable from the console. It should be more user friendly and have some kind of customized notifications so that we can use it on the client side. These are the reasons why we restricted its use only for the server environment and didn't use it on the client side."
"The solution is on-premises. The cloud version of the product, if a person needs to be on the cloud, would be InTune, which already exists as an option. SCCM doesn't need to offer cloud features for this reason."
"Based on my experience with SCCM 2016, the main, big issue is not having a good user-friendly environment. It needs much better GUI."
"In spite of us being a premier customer we find the support unsatisfactory."
"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 want the system to provide some dependency relations. I would also like to see the relationship between different machines."
"Not everything is readily available, and there are a lot of commands that are only executable via PowerShell."
"There is a reboot issue with the patching. Sometimes, if patching runs into any issue whatsoever, it doesn't reboot but it doesn't tell you it errored out. It just sits there and we don't find out until the next day whether it patched or not. That was a big issue for us. We're working through that. They added some stuff in there now where you can actually tell reboot is pending. But we still need some kind of notification that if something fails or is pending, we know. We shouldn't have to go in and look. They don't have anything for that right now."
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Ivanti Security Controls is ranked 14th in Patch Management with 2 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 1st in Patch Management with 78 reviews. Ivanti Security Controls is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Ivanti Security Controls writes "Straightforward to set up and good support but needs to be on the cloud". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". Ivanti Security Controls is most compared with Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Ivanti Patch for Linux, UNIX, Mac, Ivanti Patch for Endpoint Manager, Ivanti Neurons Patch for Intune and NinjaOne, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Microsoft Intune and Tanium. See our Ivanti Security Controls vs. Microsoft Configuration Manager report.
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