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."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."
"By using Microsoft Intune we can control which websites the users can go to and it provides a secure environment for our employees using their laptops that are having access from home. We have installed Intune to control the user's environment minimizing the chances of any hacking."
"I like how Microsoft Intune lets me lock down the email profile and make it accessible only on certain devices."
"I believe that the solution is actually in Gartner's top quadrant at the moment for mobile device management."
"It supports end-users who tend to lock their devices quite frequently. Its conditional access policy helps us keep the users logged into their devices."
"The solution is stable."
"While Microsoft Intune boasts a wide range of features, its user-friendliness and bundled licensing cost are key considerations for me."
"Intune's most valuable features are the device, compliance, and configuration policies."
"I like a lot of the reporting capabilities and baseline configurations."
"We have found the scalability to be quite good."
"This solution has made life easy with respect to patching, compliance, and OSD."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ability to deploy patches to nearly all applications."
"It's helped us solve problems surrounding patching, installing, and reporting different patches, etc., on the virtual machines."
"Microsoft is being very competitive right now, and they are really investing in a lot of new features to be more competitive in the marketplace."
"This solution helps us by automating the patching of our system."
"The solution is excellent at automating processes."
"The most valuable feature of vCenter Configuration Manager is the automated processes."
"The product's initial setup process is very simple."
"The product's deployment phase was easy."
"The stability and reliability are great."
"There are a lot of features, but I've found vMotion and VRS most valuable."
"This solution supports multiple platforms in a single solution."
"This solution is good for individual storage."
"It's the granularity: 'Is your firewall on? Is BitLocker on?' It's not amazing granularity. But I've looked into other products, like Duo, and they're all similar."
"The reporting needs to be a bit more interactive."
"The difficulty of the the roll out is surprisingly difficult considering this product is supposed to be an integrated part of the 365 suite."
"The solution can have some compliance problems in general and the end-point user can bypass easily the company policies in Intune."
"It would be nice to have a location tracker for the mobile device management tool. I'm not sure if it exists but hasn't been configured or if it's missing, but we've been unable to utilize the location features."
"The pricing can be expensive if you are not combining it with other products."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The Mac integration has room for improvement."
"The main thing is that SCCM has to become an appliance instead of a server. When I say appliance, it has to come preconfigured so that it is drop-shipped into the enterprise and then you activate the feature sets that you want. It should pull down all the latest binaries. Once that is all there, it should have a discovery tool which goes out and discovers the assets within an enterprise. If the server, workstation, and applications are all coming from the same vendor, why not have the vendor do this work for us and automate it as much as it possibly can?"
"This solution should be simpler, and more consistent across modules/sections."
"In spite of us being a premier customer we find the support unsatisfactory."
"There's no way to say, "I want this maintenance window to be on the second Tuesday of the month." It's strict. This window is this and that's it. You can't fluctuate."
"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."
"Based on my experience with SCCM 2016, the main, big issue is not having a good user-friendly environment. It needs much better GUI."
"I would like to see an agentless version of the solution."
"I want the system to provide some dependency relations. I would also like to see the relationship between different machines."
"The technical support is not as responsive as it could be. They are slow to respond to our issues with a resolution. There should be online chat support added."
"It should be easier to use alternate storage."
"The product's price could be lesser."
"If the solution could manage on-premises and cloud resources with the help of one tool, it would be an extra agent."
"The dashboards in vCenter Configuration Manager are an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The solution's pricing is very high and could be improved."
"The VxRail configuration is very complicated and a little bit too difficult to guess what the final product is going to be."
"There isn't a clear document covering all the errors. It would be helpful if the company provided better documentation for solving issues."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 78 reviews while vCenter Configuration Manager is ranked 10th in Configuration Management with 50 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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