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."Using this solution, we were able to implement a full process for all of our lifecycles."
"The ability to give our teams functionality from a control perspective, allowing them to decide how they want to implement the tool, is valuable."
"Valuable features include configurations enforcement, compliance data gathering, and deployment of a standardized OS."
"The solution is stable."
"It gives us the ability to set up schedules, according to what our security requirements are, to automate the patching of our servers and desktops."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is very scalable."
"The main, clear valuable feature is updating the latest, patches and updates from Windows. This is the main feature we really utilize a lot."
"Automation of operating system, application, and update deployments massively reduces IT operations effort."
"Microsoft Configuration Manager is integrated with other Microsoft products."
"I have found the solution to be scalable. We have around 50,000 users using the solution."
"Technical support for this solution is very good, although they can still use improvement in some regards."
"Security features can be improved."
"Password complexity is not enforced by the tool."
"I would like to see an agentless version of the solution."
"The cost of the product can be improved."
"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."
"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."
"We'd like the solution to make it easier to manage remote users."
"Initial setup was complex. There's a lot that goes into it."
"SCCM can improve on third-party application support."
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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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