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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration Manager and Red Hat Satellite 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. Red Hat Satellite Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"We have found the solution is capable of scaling.""The tool's most valuable feature is Autopilot.""Users can make screenshots, and devices only need the minimal version of iOS.""While I don't think you can ever have full visibility and control, Intune certainly allows us to see the applications being used and tells us if things like Windows patches aren't applied to machines. It does a good job. That visibility makes life a little easier.""We have a BYOD policy, and this solution helps us manage our devices.""It's easy to manage.""The Asset Management and Auto Pilot are valuable features.""It's normally able to meet 100% expectations of our customers."

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"SCCM does everything from A to Z for a Windows operating system.""The solution is user-friendly and easy to learn.""Microsoft has done a good job with authentication solutions, such as single sign-on, or open authentication.""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 solution doesn't require any maintenance from our end because it is a cloud-based solution and Microsoft takes care of everything.""We are happy with the collaboration of SCCM with Patch My PC, which allows us to do patch work.""The solution effectively handles inventory management, deployment, and reporting.""The product is useful for patch management."

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"Satellite gives administrators the ability to target deployments and only send out the updates or provision updates to certain groups.""Patch management is, for sure, most valuable. For license management and patch management, I would rate it a 10 out of 10.""You don't need to depend on any third party. It's a complete solution for patch and configuration management when integrated with the existing system.""The compliance auditing helped me a lot.""Fixing is the most valuable. When you deal with a lot of hardware and software and you have a lot of packages, fixing is a bit difficult. You need to track and pull up all such things, but Satellite makes this task easy. We have branches in other locations, and I can manage other branches by using Satellite Capsule, which is a great feature.""The most valuable feature of this solution is vulnerability management.""The most valuable feature is the fact that you don't have to expose your mission-critical environment to the Internet. With the Satellite system in place, it acts as a barrier between your Red Hat infrastructure and the public Internet.""The product allows us to handle patching for multiple servers at a time manually."

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Cons
"For an existing customer who has an SCCM, it would need to be upgraded to an MECM first before I can introduce Microsoft Intune.""We haven't really gone through all the features of Intune. We are just discovering them. Every day, we see a new feature that we want to apply, but what will be great for Intune is to be able to deploy apps in a simple fashion. We should be able to easily install various apps on the Windows platform, iOS, and Android. Currently, we have to write some scripts. It's not as straightforward as we would like it to be. It should be simplified so that we can do it just with three clicks—next, next, finish—without needing to write a script.""Deploying an app can be a complex process due to dependencies.""There needs to be more support for Mac operating systems.""The initial setup is a little bit complex.""In future releases, I would like to see better integration with Apple products.""Additional application deployment options e.g. MSI deployment with more complex parameters or additional side-by-side files, and non-MSI deployment options.""Reporting in Microsoft solutions is pathetic. With Intune, I'm getting a free inventory tool, but I don't get a reporting tool. When I go to Intune, I can see one machine's entire data in terms of the hardware and the software running on it, but I cannot generate a report for all the machines in the organization. The reporting is the only feature holding back the functionality that is already there."

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"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.""Built in PowerShell cmdlets would be a nice feature because managing clients remotely can be a pain without knowing the WMI calls to run.""SCCM can improve on third-party application support.""The main room for improvement is the on-screen display. I think it would be good if some improvements were made.""The operations could be faster and you need some patience with this tool.""The solution is a bit heavy on the sources such as RAM or CPU and the software needs to be a bit lighter.""It is not easy to get good technical support, especially at level one.""Some of the capabilities aren't fully developed yet. It's an ongoing work in progress. I think they are making some steps in the right direction as far as managing workstations centrally, like Intune."

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"Regarding the product's ability to support third-party tools, Red Hat doesn't support all the layers from the open-source version of Linux.""Satellite should be bundled with Ansible Tower and the Ansible Automation platform. We face challenges from a security perspective because we have micro-segmentation in our network. For each server we provision, we have to set permissions to different ports so that the servers can communicate with Satellite. If I have a single server with Satellite and the Ansible Automation Platform, it would be easier to manage security issues instead of having two or three products on various servers.""There could be a feature to simplify the process without the requirement of any patch manager subscription.""Red Hat Satellite's pricing needs improvement.""The product could have more diversity in what it is able to deploy and might do better if it was not dedicated to Red Hat products only.""I would like the direct integration with insights to be re-established.""It has not been significantly updated in a while.""Red Hat Satellite has a short life cycle and we constantly need to update."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Consider the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite rather than choosing specific sub-components, e.g. only Microsoft Intune."
  • "There is a cost benefit of using Microsoft Intune because of the packaging with other Microsoft products."
  • "Microsoft Intune is a cost effective choice. It is less expensive than other products on the market."
  • "The purchase of the product was handled by someone else."
  • "I have no comment on pricing of the solution."
  • "The product is offered as part of a Microsoft standard bundle. The pricing can be competitive to Airwatch, and Maas360."
  • "For Microsoft 365 E5 clients, cost is not an issue as this product is one of the benefits."
  • "The price of Intune is included with the license for Office 365, so we don't have to pay anything extra for it."
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  • "Pricing and licensing are horrible. You have to not look at dollar value to use SCCM. It's super-duper expensive but it works. The acquisition cost is expensive, it's labor-intensive. But it works."
  • "Pricing and licensing are a downside of SCCM. It's expensive. I'd have to confirm this, but I think they changed the licensing to core-based instead of socket-based. It's not cheap, because you have to buy the software, you have to buy SQL. Another thing we learned from talking to Microsoft is that they provide you a license for SQL if you run it on the same box as the primary server. If you run it outside that box, you have to buy SQL. Microsoft does recommend you running it on the same box because of performance. But then, in order to run SQL, SCCM, and everything on the same box, you better have some resources. It's an expensive solution. There's no doubt about it."
  • "Overall, I think it's fine. It's pretty much in-line because there are ways to offset it with the Office 365 licensing."
  • "SCCM comes with its own version of SQL Server. If you use that SQL Server with SCCM and don't use it for another applications than you get an SQL Server for free."
  • "The licensing is good because they have various options, depending on what you are looking for."
  • "Pricing is negotiable with Microsoft, depending upon which of their packages you choose."
  • "When you compare this solution with other tools in the market you might actually find a lot of variation in the pricing and that's why people opt for the other tools rather than Microsoft tools."
  • "Its price is okay because it is part of our licensing."
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  • "The licensing depends on the number of servers."
  • "The cost for a larger enterprise is probably almost always a boon."
  • "Its price is good. They call it subscription, not license, and it is on a yearly basis. There is only one subscription, and that's it."
  • "The price could be lower and more adaptive."
  • "The solution is worth the cost."
  • "Red Hat Satellite is expensive, but if we have more than 50 or 60 VMs, we cannot do away with the solution."
  • "The product is expensive."
  • "Our customers have to pay for the product's license."
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    Questions from the Community
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    Top Answer:Red Hat Satellite is expensive. I rate the pricing a seven or eight.
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    Also Known As
    Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager
    Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM )
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    Overview

    Microsoft Intune is a comprehensive cloud-based service that allows you to remotely manage mobile devices and mobile applications without worrying about the security of your organization’s data. Device and app management can be used on company-owned devices as well as personal devices.

    In an increasingly mobile workforce, Microsoft Intune keeps your sensitive data safe while on the move. Microsoft Intune makes it possible for your team members to work anywhere using their mobile devices. Microsoft Intune provides both the flexibility and the control needed for securing all your data on the cloud, no matter where the device with the data is located.

    Microsoft Intune Device Management Key Features

    With Microsoft Intune Device Management you can:

    • Ensure devices and apps are compliant with your security requirements.
    • Rapidly deploy and authenticate apps on all company devices.
    • Remotely access devices to troubleshoot issues or to remove data from them.
    • Generate reports for all devices in the system.
    • Monitor the way users access and share information to protect company information.
    • Set rules and configure settings on personal and organization-owned devices to access data and networks.
    • Create user groups and device groups, allowing you to rapidly access many users and devices simultaneously.

    Mobile Application Management

    Mobile application management in Intune is designed to protect your organization’s data at the application level.

    With Microsoft Intune Application Management you can:

    • Configure apps to run with specific settings enabled.
    • Update existing apps that are already on the device.
    • See reports on which apps are used and monitor their usage.
    • Selectively wipe organization data from apps.
    • Add mobile apps to user groups and devices.

    As part of Microsoft's Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) suite, Intune integrates with Microsoft Entra ID for access control and with Azure Information Protection for data protection. It also integrates with Microsoft 365 Applications.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Microsoft Intune stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to secure all devices under its management and the flexibility that the solution offers its users.

    A computing services manager notes, "Its security is most valuable. It gives us a way to secure devices, not only those that are steady. We do have a few tablets and other devices, and it is a way for us to secure these devices and manage them. We know they're out there and what's their status. We can manage their life cycle and verify that they're updated properly."

    The head of IT engineering at a financial services company writes, "The one feature we find most useful is the Mobile Application Manager. There are two types: we have the complete MDM and the Mobile Application Manager (MAM). We don't give our users phones, it is their own personal phone, and we need to allow them to have access to the company details on their phone. We need to create a balance between their own personal data and the company data. We deploy the Mobile Application Manager for them so that we won't be able to interfere with their own personal data."

    Microsoft Configuration Manager helps IT manage PCs and servers, keeping software up-to-date, setting configuration and security policies, and monitoring system status while giving employees access to corporate applications on the devices that they choose. When Configuration Manager is integrated with Microsoft Intune, you can manage corporate-connected PCs and Macs along with cloud-based mobile devices running Windows, iOS, and Android, all from a single management console.

    New features of Configuration Manager, such as the support of Windows 10 in-place upgrade, co-management with Microsoft Intune, Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise Servicing Dashboard, integration with Windows Update for Business, and more make deploying and managing Windows easier than ever before.

    Red Hat Satellite is a powerful system management tool that is designed to enable users to maximize the effectiveness of any Red Hat infrastructure solutions that they wish to deploy. It can automate most of the management tasks that administrators would otherwise have to manually perform. This enables businesses to avoid the possibility that human error is going to in some way reduce the efficiency of their operations. Additionally, it increases an organization’s ability to address all of its strategic business needs effectively. It can be used across a wide variety of environments that include physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

    Red Hat Satellite Benefits

    Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by choosing to deploy Red Hat Satellite include:

    • Simplified management. Satellite enables users to vastly simplify the work that system administrators have to do. Users only require a single solution to run their management operations. Instead of having to turn to multiple solutions that would provide them with the different management features that they need they can leverage this one solution. Automation also greatly simplifies the work that system managers have to do.


    • Flexibility. Satellite is a highly flexible solution. It is a platform-agnostic solution that users can deploy across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Users can use it along with the environment of their choice. Organizations can operate without having to invest in any particular environment type. They can also deploy it at any stage of a system’s life cycle that they choose. This provides them with the highest possible level of flexibility.


    • Scalability. It is a highly scalable product. Users can scale it so that their system management operations can effortlessly keep pace with the work that they are doing. They can maintain their security and operations without turning to another product or being forced to make expensive purchases in order to keep up. It can manage thousands of remote devices at the same time without reducing their efficacy.


    • Standardized management. Organizations that use Satellite are able to standardize the way that their system management is run. The simplified management system and automation tools make it possible for users to run every part of their system in a single standard fashion.


    • Reduction of overhead costs. Satellite makes it possible for users to operate with the highest possible level of effectiveness while at the same time reducing the overhead costs associated with their work. One way that it does so is by automating many tasks that would otherwise be expensive to train users to perform. This also saves users time working on basic tasks that they can then devote to other operations that need human intervention. The completeness of the solution also enables users to reduce the number of tools that they need to invest in. Satellite’s subscription management tool also enables users to track their spending at all times.


    Red Hat Satellite Features


    • Centralized UI. Satellite comes equipped with a centralized UI that users can use to manage all of its tools. It enables organizations to control all aspects of a system’s life cycle. Users simply utilize this one console to provide them with control of the management system.


    • Subscription management tool. Satellite makes it simple for users to import, manage, and report their Red Hat subscriptions. This enables users to keep track of their subscriptions and costs. Users that leverage this tool are thus able to maintain a high level of subscription consumption visibility.
    • Integration suite. Satellite enables users to integrate their systems with other Red Hat solutions and third-party products. This makes it possible for users to add any features that they might feel they are missing to their toolbox.


    • Automation tools. Organizations can leverage Satellite to automate a vast variety of features. They can easily take any step of the management process and put it under the control of the solution. This enables many tasks to be accomplished consistently and efficiently all at the same time.


    • Software Management. Users can manage their software by leveraging this feature to easily manage tasks such as software updating and patching. IT teams are empowered to quickly handle any software issue that may arise.


    Reviews from Real Users

    Red Hat Satellite is a highly effective solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Two major advantages it offers are its integration suite and its advanced patch management capabilities.

    Jayasunder S., the principal architect at Wipro Limited, writes, “It's really integrated with agencies that have core systems and other core management platform products or IBM products. You don't need to depend on any third party. It's a complete solution for patch and configuration management when integrated with the existing system.”

    Erik W., the senior Enterprise Engineer at a transportation company, says, “The patch management and insights connector are great. Patch management has enabled us to patch every month, keeping abreast of critical and important patches, view where things are lacking, and generate plans to mitigate issues. Due to the work being done in a tool, reporting allows us to see what has been done to what servers.”



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    Bank Alfalah Ltd., Wªrth Handelsges.m.b.H, Dimension Data, Japan Business Systems, St. Lucie County Public Schools, MISC Berhad
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Educational Organization23%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Government7%
    Financial Services Firm7%
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    Insurance Company9%
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    Transportation Company20%
    Energy/Utilities Company13%
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    Government12%
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    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise49%
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    Midsize Enterprise33%
    Large Enterprise47%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Large Enterprise67%
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    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Large Enterprise73%
    Buyer's Guide
    Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. Red Hat Satellite
    March 2024
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    Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 76 reviews while Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 21 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Satellite 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 Red Hat Satellite writes "Easy to install with helpful technical support and great patch management". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and Quest KACE Systems Management, whereas Red Hat Satellite is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SUSE Manager, AWS Systems Manager and BigFix. See our Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. Red Hat Satellite report.

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