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Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."The initial setup is not complex."
"We have not experienced any bugs or glitches with this solution."
"The tool's most valuable feature is Autopilot."
"The most valuable feature is the policy CSPs."
"It has improve our organization through the remote management of non-domain joined devices."
"The most valuable feature for us is the security, including risk analysis and patch management."
"Internet-based access with security is what I have found to be most valuable. It is also a stable and scalable solution."
"Intune's most valuable features are the device, compliance, and configuration policies."
"Its ticketing is pretty good."
"Patching is very effective and reporting is very good."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward."
"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."
"Microsoft Configuration Manager gives different tools in one solution."
"It is a very good solution. It has a good interface and is easy to use. On top of that, it is very reliable in terms of distribution as well as getting the report."
"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."
"Software deployment and WSUS are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of SCCM is the application distribution."
"I know that their AI pieces are at the infancy stage, but allowing users to do more tagging for information would be an interesting thing because Intune also directly integrates with Azure. Because a lot of the devices are hosted with that, you also get a lot of tagging of user data and other things like that."
"The installation could be improved to be simplified."
"One area for improvement is app deployment. Another is the Windows update rollout. If you're rolling out an object to a device that's offline, Intune stops trying to reach this device after it sits idle for a bit. We are forced to find a workaround that could help manage that."
"The reporting could be improved, as it's pretty poor compared to other products of this type."
"There is still a gap between SCCM and Intune, especially in the reporting, inventory, and software deployment areas."
"I would like to see easier pushdowns. Currently, we have to package our own software and then push it. Intune can make that way easier and integrate applications, such as Zoom and Adobe Acrobat, that are used by a lot of enterprise or corporate organizations."
"There's quite a lot of development that they can do within their Intune dashboard. I think there are too many lines hyperlinked to move you around. Others, in contrast, give you a simple dashboard and an intuitive administrative walkthrough."
"The add-ons must be integrated into the solution."
"I have heard feedback that the imaging is slow. It takes somewhere around an hour to image one PC."
"The product needs to improve scalability."
"The solution can be improved by speeding up the synchronizing of the policies on the devices."
"The assets have reached their end-of-life, and patching them is a complex and laborious task. It would be highly advantageous if there were an integrated solution that provided distinct options for each end-of-life asset, streamlining the process and facilitating comprehension."
"Our company would prefer not rebooting computers while people are using them. There seems to be no strategy behind it."
"This solution needs to be supported on all Operating systems."
"Not everything is readily available, and there are a lot of commands that are only executable via PowerShell."
"Devices like smartphones and tablets are managed very well on VMware, however, they are absent in SCCM. I could configure iPad from the VMware site and it was done very easily. It should be just as possible on SCCM."
"I would like to see some improvements in WSUS and control of other, non-Microsoft, product updates."
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Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is ranked 28th 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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