We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration Manager and SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor 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."This product offers an alternative solution to other UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) solutions."
"We can securely manage both company-owned devices and personal devices enrolled in our BYOD program."
"The reporting and analytics features in Microsoft Intune have been a lifesaver."
"The most valuable feature is probably mobile device management. Small businesses are coming under greater scrutiny and requirements for compliance as time goes on. We don't have to worry about a VPN because we can manage these devices, control company data, and lock users out. If needed, we can remotely wipe devices and deadman-switch them."
"I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management."
"At the moment, Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune is having all our devices compliant with our policies."
"One of the main features of the solution is it allows the management of many devices in different ways."
"Technical support is very helpful and very responsive."
"This has made the management of our environment easier."
"I like Mircosoft's technical support. Microsoft has a few updates, like some of the critical KBs. They are published within the interval time, and in case of an escalation on the client missions, we will raise a ticket with the Microsoft team. They will create a hotfix or a critical update. They will chat with us, and that is one thing I like about Microsoft. Whenever any issues occur at my organization, they will help you out soon as possible within the SLA."
"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."
"What's valuable is the basic management of the systems, being able to control who can access the systems."
"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."
"Valuable features include configurations enforcement, compliance data gathering, and deployment of a standardized OS."
"I like the data collection."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor is version control. For example, if we began on the first of the month and we considered that as the configuration of the server, I could set that configuration as my baseline. On a daily basis, if there was the operations team that did, for example, server patching, the tool will maintain all levels of versions."
"The product’s alert feature is good. We receive notifications whenever some failures occur in the configuration."
"It should be simplified. I've worked with many different mobile device management solutions, and Intune is one of the more complex ones. It could be more simplified, and some of it is related to the wording that is being used, such as a configuration profile versus a policy. They really should have had different names to make it less confusing."
"Lacking ability to leverage more iOS device management internally."
"An area for improvement is the absence of seamless integration, particularly with external dashboards."
"The installation could be improved to be simplified."
"Microsoft Intune lags market leaders, such as Apperian, in its MAM capabilities."
"The solution requires Mac support."
"I would like to see the ability to deploy custom packages as a Windows 64-bit package, as opposed to the Windows 32-bit, which is the only one available now."
"There can be some added features, such as an improved dashboard. Any new feature that could be a benefit to our customers would be good."
"There should probably be better remote support. They should also continue to improve on patch management, patching, and creating or turning products in software into deployable apps."
"The tool's deployment is difficult. Microsoft needs to improve documentation with videos."
"The configuration of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager could be improved, it is a bit complicated."
"Built in PowerShell cmdlets would be a nice feature because managing clients remotely can be a pain without knowing the WMI calls to run."
"In spite of us being a premier customer we find the support unsatisfactory."
"This solution needs to be supported on all Operating systems."
"It is not easy to get good technical support, especially at level one."
"It would be nice to have everything in one place. Now they have Intune for the desktops and SCCM to handle their servers."
"The product’s support services and licensing models need improvement."
"In a feature release, they could enhance the reporting. However, we have not evaluated this part of the solution extensively."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 76 reviews while SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor is ranked 17th in Configuration Management with 2 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor writes "Useful version control, high availability, and scales well". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and AWS Systems Manager, whereas SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor is most compared with HashiCorp Terraform. See our Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor report.
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