We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration Manager and OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."The key benefit of Intune is its integration with the Microsoft ecosystem."
"One of the best features is Windows Autopilot because if you change any of your devices, whatever security policies and compliance policies that applied can be easily migrated to the new devices. Windows Autopilot gives you that flexibility."
"The synchronization of Intune with other Microsoft solutions is a valuable feature."
"Intune's most valuable features are the device, compliance, and configuration policies."
"For our office workers who are not based in Norway, when we order the PC, we can do some of the settings for them. These are standardized settings. We can set them up exactly as they are in Norway so that they're the same."
"The dashboards, the security, and the customization capabilities work very well for us."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The mobile application management, MAM, is the most useful aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability."
"The initial setup is straightforward and not too complicated."
"It's a stable product."
"Patching is the main feature because SCCM is made to control the entire environment without manually interpreting. So it is good to use for patching."
"There have to be made some improvement in WSUS and control in other non-Microsoft products updates."
"I have found the solution to be scalable. We have around 50,000 users using the solution."
"It saves a lot of money when you can install things automatically and they are installed the exact same way on every computer."
"It uses detailed descriptions of the workstations, and that is good for me."
"The most valuable feature is the impact analysis."
"Helps me perform changes in connected infrastructure thanks to the discovery features."
"Reporting and troubleshooting for the application deployment could be better. It's very difficult to understand."
"Integrating certain group policies can be challenging and may necessitate using on-premises systems to integrate them with Microsoft Intune."
"The reporting and cost have room for improvement."
"There are items that require improvements. One is the controls from iOS."
"The documentation about the custom image setup could be better. Although Microsoft provides the steps to configure Intune or set up or deploy Intune, it doesn't have much information related to custom images. If you ask, "how can we deploy the custom image?" There is no information. The steps they mention ask you to connect to your on-premises environment or create your own image on the cloud itself once there is connectivity. But I needed to go to multiple websites to get all this information. I had to figure out how to upload the custom image if you want to use the on-premise custom image for Cloud PC. If you have the proper subscription, you must have the right access, like global admin or owner. Then you can add your custom image to that. There are no steps mentioned over there. Microsoft Intune doesn't have Chrome browser support. I would like to have that support because they will want it if we pitch the product to clients."
"There is room for improvement in integrating additional features such as Purview and SharePoint activities into Intune."
"I would like to see easier pushdowns. Currently, we have to package our own software and then push it. Intune can make that way easier and integrate applications, such as Zoom and Adobe Acrobat, that are used by a lot of enterprise or corporate organizations."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with Apple."
"This solution should be simpler, and more consistent across modules/sections."
"The ability to integrate MDM would be great."
"The tool's deployment is difficult. Microsoft needs to improve documentation with videos."
"I'm looking for a single solution for all discovery needs. It fulfills about 40% of the requirements, and I'd like to see the other 60% so that I don't have to keep doing this."
"The TSM component could be improved."
"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 better if automation options were available. For example, in Nexthink or SysTrack, there is an analytical tool. Creating dashboards would be very easy if you implement the same thing in Microsoft. That report will be a daily cost to the customers and good revenue for our organization. The price also could be better. In the next release, we need to include some features like tables, dashboards, surveys, services, and metrics in the dashboard. Whatever we are implementing will be downloaded by a report. Apart from the report, we will telecast from the dashboard. It's very easy to compare, and it will be easy to telecast to the end-users."
"The deployment process is lengthy and should be quicker to complete."
"The native UI should be simplified because it is outdated and a little bit over-complicated."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 78 reviews while OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is ranked 21st in Configuration Management. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management writes "It allows us to deploy applications and primitive desktops globally. The upgrade cycle is very long". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and AWS Systems Manager, whereas OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is most compared with Quest KACE Systems Management and BigFix.
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