Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager Valuable Features
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.
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Usman Siddique
Information Technology Lead at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
The main, clear valuable feature is updating the latest patches, Software distribution, remote control and computer inventory. This is the main feature we really utilize a lot.
View full review »It is a very well-rounded product. It is a complete package with all the features using which we are able to manage our PCs very efficiently.
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Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager
July 2022

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The solution is very flexible and very handy. It has helped us move past the process of manually updating.
It's helped us solve problems surrounding patching, installing, and reporting different patches, etc., on the virtual machines.
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reviewer1054521
Enterprise Systems Engineer at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
The patch management is great. The ability to be able to centrally purchase servers is quite useful.
The ability to monitor only after you have rebooted devices allows you to see if they have compliance or not.
The efficiency - as opposed to patching once you have the time - of having a central repository to manage everything you need is very helpful.
The solution is quite stable.
It's perfect for enterprises.
We have found the scalability to be quite good.
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reviewer1383303
Systems engineer - IT infrastructure management at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The entire solution, from end to end is excellent. It's doing essential work for us at our company.
The initial setup is straightforward and not too complicated.
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reviewer1640805
Director of Professional Services at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The best thing about SCCM is the patch management. You can make sure that all of your devices are there. You can see all of them and see your levels.
It lets you know what your infrastructure is like and what state you are in.
SCCM internally works great. On your internal infrastructure, it is fantastic. It gives you everything you want it to do.
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BrucePollard
Infrastructure, Technical Computing Applications at EQF Solutions
We're a Microsoft-centric organization, so we are happy with the integration between products.
The interface, customization, and security are all pretty good.
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reviewer1775373
President/CEO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Patching is very effective and reporting is very good. In general, the software distribution and operating system deployment are very good. Most organizations with small support resources leverage it, along with the Azure Autopilot component or the Intune Autopilot component. The customer orders the solution, it's shipped to them, they open it, log on with their Azure credentials and it builds the machine for them as opposed to going to an imaging center, and having a dedicated staff for that particular function.
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SumeetShekhar
User at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The new CMD features are excellent. It is like a cloud environment gateway.
The batch management is very helpful. The software deployment happens in there.
There are many features relevant to many of our clients.
The initial setup is fairly straightforward.
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reviewer1798314
System Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Microsoft has done a good job with authentication solutions, such as single sign-on, or open authentication.
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reviewer1585857
Global Tech Delivery Lead Win & EUC at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The on-premises useability is very good.
The solution is stable.
For the most part, for our needs, the scaling is fine.
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reviewer1908249
Vice President Technological Solutions and Security at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature of SCCM is the application distribution.
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reviewer1468257
System Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
There are many features that are useful, I will mention a few of the primary ones. You have a tool that enables you to build an operating system image and deploy it to a number of devices, system patching, application deployment, compliance checking, thorough documentation for installation and it has the ability for easy policy assignment management.
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reviewer1777911
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
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.
It is designed to detect any PC. You can do it agent-based, or you can do it by some other method. If it is agent-based, then as long as the PC has the Endpoint Manager agent on it at the time when the batch job runs, it detects the hardware and software and puts it in the database.
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reviewer1475949
System Engineer
The solution may be one of the top products from a management standpoint. It's excellent.
The solution has a very good set of features.
Its capabilities are quite robust.
View full review »It does the job and meets our needs. With everybody working remotely these days, we are using this solution to deploy everything. The deployment of PCs is easy.
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reviewer1580574
Associate Director at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
The administration of the solution is very helpful.
It offers many of the same features other solutions would offer. It's very similar in scope.
The solution has been very stable over the years.
The product is capable of scaling.
Technical support is very helpful and very responsive.
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reviewer1514349
Specialist (US IT Recruiter) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It uses detailed descriptions of the workstations, and that is good for me.
View full review »Patching is an important feature in the solution. Because it's console-based we can create one application or patch in the console. It will download and from the console base we can deploy to all machines. If your company has around 1,000-2,000 machines we're able to patch and deploy to all concurrently. We're also able to check, report and troubleshoot if there are any issues or errors that occur during deployment. We currently have 500 plus servers which are managed automatically on cloud.
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reviewer1539666
IT Technical Support Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I have found some valuable features to be the built-in reporting tool, the ability to get visibility on your organization, compliance reports, software remitting for all your products in your organization, and the management of all machines in your environment including a new domain and workgroups.
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IgorBondarenko
Information Security Officer with 11-50 employees
The product is quite good. We are happy with the collaboration of SCCM with Patch My PC, which allows us to do patchwork.
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reviewer1363818
Configuration Manager, MPE USARUER, G3, MCSD at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I like that this solution captures all the devices in our infrastructure, quickly identifying those items based upon everything we've identified within the SCCM, as far as the proper nomenclature goes. Other things along those lines like serial numbers, and the location of things, it's all good stuff. The solution does exactly what it needs to do and in terms of being on the ITSM side of the house it just feeds into it.
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.
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reviewer1324437
Sr. System Admin at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
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.
View full review »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.
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reviewer1260267
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature is the scalability.
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reviewer1521246
Senior Engineer - IT Security Systems at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The ability to make collections and deploy to them has been great.
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reviewer1410249
VP Pre-Sales & Product Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The most valuable part of the solution in my case is patch management.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is patch management.
View full review »The scalability to deploy the package.
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reviewer1548831
RHS Tech Manager at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees
Software deployment and WSUS are most valuable.
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Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager
July 2022

Learn what your peers think about Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2022.
622,358 professionals have used our research since 2012.