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."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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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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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