We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration Manager and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"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."
"The ability to block and erase remote devices is valuable to us, especially when those devices are lost."
"It has helped with compliance. It has helped to ensure that devices comply with the organization's policy. If they are not compliant and secure, they cannot access the resources."
"The most important thing for me is the autopilot feature."
"If the product works, remote access will be a benefit. To this point we have not had reason to have confidence in achieving that access."
"It's easy to deploy a configuration or policy to a system, especially when you don't have Azure AD. Now we are talking to all these small and medium-sized customers who don't necessarily have an on-premise Windows Active Directory. If they have invested in Office 365 Premium, this functionality becomes available to them."
"We already use a lot of Microsoft products in our company, and therefore, it made sense to also use this product."
"The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult."
"I like Mircosoft's technical support. Microsoft has a few updates, like some of the critical KBs. They are published within the interval time, and in case of an escalation on the client missions, we will raise a ticket with the Microsoft team. They will create a hotfix or a critical update. They will chat with us, and that is one thing I like about Microsoft. Whenever any issues occur at my organization, they will help you out soon as possible within the SLA."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward."
"The scalability to deploy the package."
"The solution doesn't require any maintenance from our end because it is a cloud-based solution and Microsoft takes care of everything."
"The initial setup is straightforward and not too complicated."
"It is a good choice for deployment that performs very well."
"This solution helps us by automating the patching of our system."
"This solution captures all the devices in our infrastructure."
"Compared to other vendors, like NetBrain, managing the solution is easy. They made it very user-friendly."
"Its main functionality is highly beneficial as it centralizes the management of configuration items across the network."
"It's perfect for network configuration management. It's easy to use."
"The solution's view is very nice, and they have a great customized dashboard."
"The most valuable features the solution offers are compliance, reliability, and information about reliability."
"The feature that I really enjoy is the ability to script changes across all of your devices."
"This solution has helped our organization by allowing us to store all the device configurations for the various network devices in NCM and making it easy for us to retrieve and look them over."
"I use it for monitoring the entire network for the company. We oversee nodes down, we oversee devices heading up to crossing the threshold for CPU usage. We oversee power so power backups on the switches, we oversee if they're down or if they're failing. We oversee any node down or any router from any vendor."
"They could also make it easier to use because there are some other products that may be easier to use in terms of the look and feel of the dashboard."
"Microsoft Intune needs to improve the initial login process."
"It would be helpful if there was proactive remediation."
"When Microsoft Intune is used with different android devices it does not always work as it is supposed to."
"There is improvement needed in integrating with the installed Office solutions versions, such as Office 2019. The Office 365 integrates without a problem."
"It needs incorporation of Knox, ZeroTouch, etc."
"The synchronization could be improved."
"It would be great if Intune offered better data protection controls for BYOD Windows PCs."
"Our company would prefer not rebooting computers while people are using them. There seems to be no strategy behind it."
"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."
"Regarding this, I'd like to mention the agent situation. When the agent on an end-user device is not functioning correctly, it can be quite problematic. It would be highly beneficial if there were a self-healing mechanism in place. Essentially, if the agent becomes corrupted or encounters issues, it should be able to rectify itself autonomously. This is particularly critical because, in order to utilize a tool like MECM (assuming you're referring to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager), we need to deploy agents, known as AsMs, on all the devices we use, such as Windows 10 or Windows Server. Sometimes, when we deploy configurations or updates, they don't apply properly due to agent issues. This issue has been present since we began using MECM around 23 years ago. Unfortunately, there is currently no built-in mechanism for the agent to detect its own problems and initiate self-repair. Microsoft doesn’t have any feature to scan vulnerabilities and hence, they could include those."
"It should provide the ability to remotely connect to mobile devices. There are some solutions that are doing that, but with Microsoft Intune, the only way to remotely connect to devices outside the organization and mobile devices is by using TeamViewer. It is pretty strange for a big company like Microsoft to not have something for that."
"This solution needs to be supported on all Operating systems."
"SCCM can improve on third-party application support."
"It is a bit of an old and outdated product."
"On some hardware, we'd like an easier way to get peripherals attached."
"We want to be able to store it in a data warehouse format and integrate it with Google single sign-on."
"Releasing a product compatible with operating systems other than Windows would be advantageous."
"The solution could have better integration."
"I would like to see more integration tools. Something like dialysis, for example."
"Improvements are needed in the automatic network mapping function."
"The network logs could be improved. When the error logs come across with those false positive alarms in the error logs."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"On NCM, reporting could be a bit better. It's completely become just one report. When I try to create a custom report, the solution just commits old server data."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 78 reviews while SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is ranked 11th in Configuration Management with 22 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager writes "Network configuration is done well; great pricing". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and AWS Systems Manager, whereas SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, Cisco Prime, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, OpenText Network Node Manager i and VMware NSX. See our Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager report.
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