We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration Manager and vCenter 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 product has eased the deployment of Microsoft apps to the devices. We can manage it properly. We can control it and push the updates. Another company helped us with the deployment. However, we can do it internally."
"Its protection policies are most valuable. It protects mobile devices as well as individual apps. It is pretty scalable, and its documentation is also pretty good. It is also pretty straightforward to deploy."
"I like that it's very good and very simple. I found that we just needed to have a proper subscription for an Intune tenant, and from the subscription, if we have the right role assigned, like the global admin role or the owner role, we can use Microsoft cloud resources. With the help of that, we can do many things like setting up Microsoft Intune in the cloud to create our virtual machines. All these can be done, and the steps are very simple. I really liked it. I like features like Windows Auto-Enrollment. I like it very much because whenever you supply it to the end-user, it will be ready to use immediately. The end-user only needs to provide the user credentials, and then they are good to go. I also really like Cloud PC, which was recently launched on Azure."
"One of the standout features of Intune is its seamless accessibility to work data, eliminating the need to be tied to an office or a desktop."
"The mobile application management, MAM, is the most useful aspect of the solution."
"The best feature is that we don't need to worry about downtime. We don't need to worry about the network connections of our office or the virtual private network. Everything is being done through the internet. Using Intune Autopilot, we can configure and deploy everything to the devices."
"The solution appears to be stable and scalable."
"The main advantage is that Intune performs its intended functions effectively."
"Microsoft has done a good job with authentication solutions, such as single sign-on, or open authentication."
"It does the job and meets our needs. With everybody working remotely these days, we are using this solution to deploy everything. The deployment of PCs is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical-based reports of software updates that have been successful, the ones that have failed, and a summary of where the failures are what security breaches may occur."
"You can remote control or RDP. That has been the most valuable because we can go into one console and can get to anything we want. Instead of going to all these different consoles, we centralized everything."
"It is easy to install, and quick to deploy."
"Patching is very effective and reporting is very good."
"This solution helps us by automating the patching of our system."
"Microsoft Configuration Manager is integrated with other Microsoft products."
"vCenter alone is enough for me because vCenter is a cluster environment and cluster solution for virtualization environments."
"The solution is stable and we haven't run into issues with bugs or glitches."
"There are a lot of features, but I've found vMotion and VRS most valuable."
"The most valuable features of vCenter Configuration Manager are highly mature technology."
"The stability and reliability are great."
"I appreciate it because it's very easy to set up and configure new disks and servers."
"The solution is very easy to manage."
"It has many valuable features that serve many purposes."
"There should be more support for macOS. Even though macOS is supported by Intune and Microsoft is working very hard to get more features into Intune to manage macOS, that's one thing they can give a lot more attention to."
"The most important thing is reporting. They should improve their reporting. They should give a free hand to users. In SCCM, I can create my own reports. For example, in SCCM, I can create an inventory report for my PC or for all PCs, but in Intune, we don't have an option to create any report. Microsoft claims that Intune is a successor of SCCM, but SCCM is more powerful than Intune. So, they should develop Intune more and make it equivalent to SCCM. Then, their product will be great in the market."
"Enhancements for managing MacOS more comprehensively would be beneficial."
"The scalability could be improved, and like most other MDM products, Intune is good but not 100% there yet."
"China blocks Google and Google Play Store, which makes installation challenging. Microsoft Intune is a company software, which has to be installed to the app portal or Microsoft Software Center."
"They can improve their MAM policies a little bit more and make them more granular. They should include more granular group policies. They are there, but they need to be more granular. Its stability should also be improved. It is not very stable. Sometimes, it shows some inconsistencies across tenants."
"More integration with monitoring tools is needed."
"One big problem with Microsoft is that they're changing the names of the products quite often, or they're quite consistently doing so. Intune is now Endpoint administration. Constantly switching the user interface or the administrative interface makes it quite hard to keep pace. If you are on a two-week holiday and you come back and look at the same screen you have looked at for the last couple of months, it looks different, which is annoying. Changing things around all the time doesn't make it easy."
"I would like to see an agentless version of the solution."
"The main room for improvement is the on-screen display. I think it would be good if some improvements were made."
"In terms of the monitoring, the timeframe it takes to actually report back on the compliance of a device after it has been patched is a bit too long."
"It is not easy to get good technical support, especially at level one."
"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."
"They need to improve the support for the Mac operating system."
"The database should be made to be more stable and robust, but not so much the configuration."
"The solution could improve the functionality for automating, license management. Additionally, more and better-looking reports are needed."
"It can take a long time for the first information to become available. On the other hand, that's normal. It has to collect a lot of information before it can predict future needs. But it would be nice if there was some kind of base level to get started."
"There isn't a clear document covering all the errors. It would be helpful if the company provided better documentation for solving issues."
"The licensing model has shifted from socket-based to core-based licensing, resulting in increased customer costs. Moreover, if a customer utilizes software like VMware, which integrates seamlessly with ESXi, it becomes even more challenging to consider replacing ESXi. Hence, many customers, particularly in India, are actively exploring alternatives."
"The technical support could be faster."
"It should be easier to use alternate storage."
"Users need to pay a licensing fee for the solution, which could be cheaper."
"The customer service and support are not as good as that of other solutions. It is not very fast."
"The product's price could be lesser."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 76 reviews while vCenter Configuration Manager is ranked 11th in Configuration Management with 46 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while vCenter Configuration Manager is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Configuration Manager writes "A solution with a range of functionalities and several pricing plans that suit your needs". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and AWS Systems Manager, whereas vCenter Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Satellite and BigFix. See our Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. vCenter Configuration Manager report.
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