We performed a comparison between CA Harvest Software Change Manager and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, BMC, Microsoft and others in Software Configuration Management."The ability to give our teams functionality from a control perspective, allowing them to decide how they want to implement the tool, is valuable."
"Using this solution, we were able to implement a full process for all of our lifecycles."
"It's helped us solve problems surrounding patching, installing, and reporting different patches, etc., on the virtual machines."
"We're a Microsoft-centric organization, so we are happy with the integration between products."
"Microsoft is being very competitive right now, and they are really investing in a lot of new features to be more competitive in the marketplace."
"The technical support is good."
"I have found the solution to be scalable. We have around 50,000 users using the solution."
"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 main, clear valuable feature is updating the latest, patches and updates from Windows. This is the main feature we really utilize a lot."
"I like its ease of use. It does what you need it to do, and it's a one-stop-shop for the company and for all your deployments. If you incorporate Intune into it, you can have both. You can bring your own devices and corporate devices, and everything runs out of SCCM and Intune."
"Security features can be improved."
"Password complexity is not enforced by the tool."
"Technical support for this solution is very good, although they can still use improvement in some regards."
"SCCM does not scale well, which is one of the reasons we are not going to continue to use it."
"The App to upgrades to the server needs to be improved."
"Initial setup was complex. There's a lot that goes into it."
"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."
"The solution should be more compatible with different versions of Linux."
"The reports are too busy. They could be simpler. I'm a technician, so I don't care how pretty the reports look. They should be easy to read. I'm designing this for production folks. They need to read the reports quickly when they're patching in the middle of the night."
"One area of improvement is regarding the patching of Office 365 products. We have some difficulties on this side, and it can be improved."
"The cost of the product can be improved."
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CA Harvest Software Change Manager is ranked 8th in Software Configuration Management while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews. CA Harvest Software Change Manager is rated 7.2, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CA Harvest Software Change Manager writes "Powerful UDP functionality with a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". CA Harvest Software Change Manager is most compared with Endevor, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Tanium.
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