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Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."It helps implement conditional access policies to restrict mobile users from accessing potentially dangerous emails."
"Fortunately, now everything is streamlined into a single, unified platform."
"Easy to use."
"At the moment, Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"Conditional access helps me control uncontrolled access."
"One of the biggest advantages of Microsoft Intune is that it brings the management of Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and even Linux under a single pane of glass."
"Intune's most valuable features are the device, compliance, and configuration policies."
"One of the most valuable aspects of Microsoft Intune is its seamless integration with Azure Active Directory, offering capabilities akin to Group Policy Objects."
"SCCM is a stable solution."
"It works well for the endpoints for the customer I'm consulting. It has a bunch of knobs, and you can tune it to do lots of things."
"What's valuable is the basic management of the systems, being able to control who can access the systems."
"The most valuable features are Remote Connect, SUP, Cloud functionality, Report, Query, and third-party patching."
"Microsoft has done a good job with authentication solutions, such as single sign-on, or open authentication."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is very scalable."
"With the SCCM inventory, we found a lot of rogue applications. We were able to identify them, find out who was running them, and either put them on our application list or remove them."
"The most valuable features are application deployment and task-sequenced imaging."
"Helps me perform changes in connected infrastructure thanks to the discovery features."
"The most valuable feature is the impact analysis."
"Having a dedicated configuration server that assists in modifying the configuration service, and creating personalized structures, interfaces, and web services could enhance usability."
"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."
"The UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"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."
"Lacking ability to leverage more iOS device management internally."
"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."
"Microsoft Intune is not user-friendly to manage and has room for improvement."
"Integration with Mac devices requires some improvement."
"SCCM can improve on third-party application support."
"A lot of experience is needed in terms of troubleshooting, as this is one of the most difficult tasks in MECM. We were seven people in a group and I was the only one that had the patience to do the troubleshooting at times."
"The solution can be improved by speeding up the synchronizing of the policies on the devices."
"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."
"It needs to be able to load faster during deployment."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager could improve the integration."
"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."
"The native UI should be simplified because it is outdated and a little bit over-complicated."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 78 reviews while OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is ranked 21st in Configuration Management. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management writes "It allows us to deploy applications and primitive desktops globally. The upgrade cycle is very long". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and AWS Systems Manager, whereas OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is most compared with Quest KACE Systems Management and BigFix.
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