"We're a Microsoft-centric organization, so we are happy with the integration between products."
"It uses detailed descriptions of the workstations, and that is good for me."
"It's helped us solve problems surrounding patching, installing, and reporting different patches, etc., on the virtual machines."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is the availability of being able to manage the Microsoft estate. It handles many areas, such as asset management and tracking."
"The scalability to deploy the package."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is patch management."
"Patching is very effective and reporting is very good."
"The major features of this product are the reporting tools. The most valuable features are package deployment and application deployment. Security management is also good because any vulnerability will be identified, and you can fix it. It's the best tool because you never know what kind of client you will have. For example, you may have your offices in low bandwidth remote areas. But it's achievable because it accommodates the bandwidth that you have available. Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is an excellent reporting tool for your environment. If you want to know the details about the hardware configuration, software configuration, what is causing a problem, or when a new feature update comes in for Windows, even that goes on SCCM itself. A lot of deployment stuff."
"The most valuable features are the agent, high load balancing, and overall robustness and features."
"Anything that we manage through Puppet always runs perfectly."
"The versatility is great."
"It would be nice to have everything in one place. Now they have Intune for the desktops and SCCM to handle their servers."
"The analysis is something that can be integrated. Their report analysis can be improved a little bit due to the fact that most of the time complaints policies are saved by the admins. It's something that we need to look into and search for."
"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."
"The database should be made to be more stable and robust, but not so much the configuration."
"Could do with some cosmetic improvements on the user interface."
"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."
"There is no asset management package included."
"SCCM can improve on third-party application support."
"There's a lot of scope for enhancement on the DevSecOps side. They should definitely include features for compliance, for both the Linux and Windows side of the devices, as well as for network devices. Compliance is something they need to work on."
"The solution has really complex code, you have to understand the Ruby language. However, once you know the code then you can move ahead without any problems."
"It's a bit of a pain point to make sure that everything works once we've upgraded it because Puppet has been evolving pretty fast."
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Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 38 reviews while Puppet Enterprise is ranked 9th in Configuration Management with 3 reviews. Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while Puppet Enterprise is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager writes "A stable systems management software product with useful package deployment and application deployment features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Puppet Enterprise writes "A set-it-and-forget-it management solution". Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Desktop Central, BigFix, Tanium and Ivanti Patch for Windows, whereas Puppet Enterprise is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, AWS Systems Manager and UrbanCode Deploy. See our Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager vs. Puppet Enterprise report.
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