We performed a comparison between Kace Systems Deployment Appliance and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."Its direct integration with all the other products that we have from Microsoft is valuable. We're using the E5 license, and we have a whole wealth of different products available. It just makes it easier to have everything from one provider."
"I like the group policy management feature, which performs application monitoring and device enrollment."
"Great for software update needs, operating system version updates, and security policy enforcement."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune."
"It's easy to manage."
"One of the main features of the solution is it allows the management of many devices in different ways."
"The device profiling which uses the official Outlook email enabled us to control the screenshot feature and prevent copying outside of the organization's application."
"The most valuable feature is the UEM capabilities."
"Its ticketing is pretty good."
"Patching is very effective and reporting is very good."
"There is a faster time to rollout. If we get a new PC, it can be ready for productivity right away."
"Provides great insight into the functionalities of the data scope."
"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."
"I manage software updates and operating systems for devices, and within seconds, we can remotely deploy a system for, say, 2,000 devices. Not only that, but we can also deploy scripts and create comprehensive compliance rules."
"It's a stable product."
"Valuable features include configurations enforcement, compliance data gathering, and deployment of a standardized OS."
"It has the ability to perform mass distribution."
"It needs incorporation of Knox, ZeroTouch, etc."
"We would like to see support for Chrome and/or devices for Chromebooks."
"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."
"There can be some added features, such as an improved dashboard. Any new feature that could be a benefit to our customers would be good."
"The initial setup is a little bit complex."
"They can improve their MAM policies a little bit more and make them more granular. They should include more granular group policies. They are there, but they need to be more granular. Its stability should also be improved. It is not very stable. Sometimes, it shows some inconsistencies across tenants."
"What would make this product better is adding more security policies and features in the next upgrade."
"The product needs to upgrade itself when the server is overloaded."
"I have heard feedback that the imaging is slow. It takes somewhere around an hour to image one PC."
"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."
"The database should be made to be more stable and robust, but not so much the configuration."
"It would be nice to have everything in one place. Now they have Intune for the desktops and SCCM to handle their servers."
"It would be of benefit if Configuration Manager could be connected/integrated with multiple Microsoft Intune subscriptions rather than just one (the current limit)."
"On some hardware, we'd like an easier way to get peripherals attached."
"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."
"Their compliance reporting is not accurate, and they admitted it on the phone when we had a call with them. We were trying to understand why their numbers didn't match on our compliance reports. It is not accurate and you cannot depend on the compliance reports. The numbers just don't match, and we can't figure out why. We called Microsoft and they said, "Yeah, that's a known issue." But there is no word that they're working on it."
"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."
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Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is ranked 28th in Configuration Management while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 78 reviews. Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is rated 7.0, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Kace Systems Deployment Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good ticketing but accessing inventory needs to be easier". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is most compared with , whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and AWS Systems Manager.
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