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Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."The biggest benefits of Intune are the ability to push changes and the added security. When we moved forward with Defender, we onboarded all those machines automatically. That helps dramatically. For a while, we were left with machines that weren't protected. We could see where people had done things they shouldn't have done, and Defender saved our skins a few times. It didn't happen a lot, but it happened enough that it made us glad we made that decision."
"The reporting and analytics features in Microsoft Intune have been a lifesaver."
"The solution is easy to use and it has good performance."
"The aspects I find most valuable are the managing the data and applications. I can also restrict the users to install any applications. I can also wipe the data if the phone was missplaced or stolen. These are the basics for me."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"I haven't used other mobile device management solutions, but compared to SCCM, we eliminate a lot of on-premises infrastructure and maintenance by using Intune."
"I like the group policy management feature, which performs application monitoring and device enrollment."
"The most valuable feature for us is the security, including risk analysis and patch management."
"Its ticketing is pretty good."
"Software deployment and WSUS are most valuable."
"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."
"The cloud account management is a valuable feature."
"It saves a lot of money when you can install things automatically and they are installed the exact same way on every computer."
"Microsoft has done a good job with authentication solutions, such as single sign-on, or open authentication."
"We have found the scalability to be quite good."
"SCCM is a stable solution."
"We are happy with the collaboration of SCCM with Patch My PC, which allows us to do patch work."
"Integrating certain group policies can be challenging and may necessitate using on-premises systems to integrate them with Microsoft Intune."
"When somebody has a customized application or their own company's application, we cannot deploy that application."
"There needs to be more support for Mac operating systems."
"I think there should be a better tracking of the cell phones used on the Intune."
"Technical support is not that great."
"Intune's third-party patch management could be better. It should be easier for the average system admin to keep non-Microsoft applications updated."
"I'd like some more reporting so that I don't have to delve into PowerShell and I can pull more of the local device information such as memory, apps installed, etc. It would be nice to be able to see the apps that are present there but might not be managed. For example, if they installed 7Zip, it could report that back via an installed program or feature to see what was currently installed."
"The reporting needs to be a bit more interactive."
"I have heard feedback that the imaging is slow. It takes somewhere around an hour to image one PC."
"The tool's deployment is complex and depends on the architecture you want to implement."
"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 time the solution takes for updating systems could be quicker. For example, the system information status is not updating as it should. Additionally, the database synchronization querying is slow and could be improved."
"The solution should be more compatible with different versions of Linux."
"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."
"It would be of benefit if Configuration Manager could be connected/integrated with multiple Microsoft Intune subscriptions rather than just one (the current limit)."
"It would be better if reporting were more user-friendly. I would like to see an upgrade in the reporting structure in the next release. At the moment, you have to use an SQL query or configure it to pull reports through the graphical user interface. Their updates could be more regular. I think Mircosoft updates it every six months. They are also moving many things to Intune, and Microsoft decided to move the deployment solution there. I think SCCM is getting old, and Intune is new."
"The database should be made to be more stable and robust, but not so much the configuration."
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Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is ranked 20th 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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