We performed a comparison between Jamf Pro and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about JAMF, Microsoft, Kandji and others in Mobile Device Management (MDM)."There is support for Apple updates from day one. Jamf works closely with Apple, so they are ready to support new updates whenever Apple pushes them."
"It's as easy as procuring the licensing for the apps and then setting it to the volume purchasing back in Jamf."
"Jamf Pro allowed us to patch and manage endpoints while collecting log data to help improve operational efficiency."
"Users love that instead of having to wait for tickets to be resolved, they can open an app and run a specific policy."
"Smart groups and just the way MDM works are valuable. We like all the features that they have. We try to use it as much as possible, and then we have the support and community involvement to reach out to."
"Jamf is stable, reliable, secure and you have lots of customization options."
"The solution has good integration with Google and has high performance for our Mac fleet of devices."
"I like the ability to modify it to suit our environment and the fact that, since it's an Apple-dedicated service, the integration is easy."
"Software deployment and WSUS are most valuable."
"It has the ability to perform mass distribution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ability to deploy patches to nearly all applications."
"Endpoint Manager is valuable to our organization because it allows us to connect to our enterprise from remote locations securely. The most useful feature is its robustness and scalability. It is highly scalable and flexible, allowing us to use it in various environments. Additionally, we can specialize the policies related to each device group. This ensures that each group has access to the applications they need for their work and non-work hours."
"The product is useful for patch management."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"This has made the management of our environment easier."
"The ability to make collections and deploy to them has been great."
"I think that there should also be more integrations with Jamf that could better the intelligence-gathering when making business decisions."
"It would be great for Jamf to provide templates for commonly used tasks like updating an operating system, packaging commonly used apps like Office 365, or enabling FileVault."
"For patch management in Jamf, two Smart Groups are required as patch policies cannot be scoped as of now. This is not a major issue, as there is a great workaround by using a wrapped "member of" duplicate Smart Group. However, being able to avoid two Smart Groups for patch management would be nice."
"One feature or improvement that would be awesome is some sort of mobile app from Jamf that can be used to alert admins of custom alerts."
"Some improvement can be made in the customer service realm, while also making additional training level courses available for online study and exam-taking."
"I would like to see tighter integration with Jamf Protect in the future releases of Jamf Pro."
"I think it would be best if Jamf had support tiers."
"Every once in a blue moon, we wind up with a rarely-seen superbug that takes support weeks to months to solve."
"I would like to see an agentless version of the solution."
"The availability of technical support could improve."
"They should improve their anti-malware policies like the SCEP policies. For instance, you can't have different policies for different servers, there is only one policy in all the servers, and everything is covered under that. For example, say you want to scan one group of servers on Saturday, and then you want to scan another group of servers on Sunday, you can't do that. You have to scan all your servers, a regular scan or a full scan, on the same day and at the same time. That's definitely one thing they need to resolve. In the next release, it would actually be nice if they included Apple products. It will also help if you can use Intune again. Their compliance reporting feature could also be better. They can maybe work a bit on that for patching now. It would be better if SCCM came with the functions of Right Click Tools built-in. If SCCM would have all those functions already built-in, we won't have to go and spend $5,000, just as an add-in from another company to get those functions."
"I want the system to provide some dependency relations. I would also like to see the relationship between different machines."
"The database should be made to be more stable and robust, but not so much the configuration."
"There's no way to say, "I want this maintenance window to be on the second Tuesday of the month." It's strict. This window is this and that's it. You can't fluctuate."
"Troubleshooting in general needs improvement. There's just a ton of logs to go through, and so finding the error log that corresponds with that you're doing can sometimes be difficult."
"The product needs to improve scalability."
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Jamf Pro is ranked 1st in Mobile Device Management (MDM) with 103 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 76 reviews. Jamf Pro is rated 9.6, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Jamf Pro writes "Customizable with a self-service portal and a good security posture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". Jamf Pro is most compared with Microsoft Intune, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, SOTI MobiControl and IBM MaaS360, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Kaseya VSA.
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