We performed a comparison between Jamf Pro and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about JAMF, Microsoft, Kandji and others in Mobile Device Management (MDM)."It offers professionals an endless amount of possibilities to keep users and the company happy."
"We are able to configure the laptop with the security requirements needed, default applications, and so on without touching it."
"Being able to easily deploy apps and patches to our client computers with minimal hands-on time from our techs has been huge."
"The user interface is great."
"The most valuable features in Jamf Pro are the policies and config profiles, making our life easy to manage many different things in one place."
"Thanks to Smart Groups and patch management, a lot of the work being done is via a hands-off approach."
"Jamf is stable, reliable, secure and you have lots of customization options."
"I can set policies to manage devices by many variables OR keep it simple by leveraging DEP to assign new devices the standard apps."
"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."
"I have found the solution to be scalable. We have around 50,000 users using the solution."
"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."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward."
"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."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"This solution has made life easy with respect to patching, compliance, and OSD."
"It has the ability to perform mass distribution."
"One of the big areas in need of improvement is automated device naming for computers."
"The dashboard needs to be customizable."
"I wish the inventory would have its own pane without having to do it as a search."
"The patching can definitely use a little bit of improvement. They should make it a little bit more automated."
"I think there's room for improvement on the automation. For example, uploading a package to Jamf Pro and then updating the policy and other aspects, should be automatic. For instance, if I put a new version of the software, version 11 and the previous one was 10, Jamf Pro should be able to recognize if there's an update and update the policy automatically. It's not a big deal, but I think there's room for improvement."
"The list of applications for patch management isn't sufficient."
"We would like to have some of the extension attributes configured so that those extension attributes can be part of the core structure. They can make some of the extension attributes the actual attributes. They shouldn't be like add-ons."
"In some places, GUI could be more reactive."
"Regarding this, I'd like to mention the agent situation. When the agent on an end-user device is not functioning correctly, it can be quite problematic. It would be highly beneficial if there were a self-healing mechanism in place. Essentially, if the agent becomes corrupted or encounters issues, it should be able to rectify itself autonomously. This is particularly critical because, in order to utilize a tool like MECM (assuming you're referring to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager), we need to deploy agents, known as AsMs, on all the devices we use, such as Windows 10 or Windows Server. Sometimes, when we deploy configurations or updates, they don't apply properly due to agent issues. This issue has been present since we began using MECM around 23 years ago. Unfortunately, there is currently no built-in mechanism for the agent to detect its own problems and initiate self-repair. Microsoft doesn’t have any feature to scan vulnerabilities and hence, they could include those."
"The operations could be faster and you need some patience with this tool."
"The assets have reached their end-of-life, and patching them is a complex and laborious task. It would be highly advantageous if there were an integrated solution that provided distinct options for each end-of-life asset, streamlining the process and facilitating comprehension."
"Management of Linux devices could be improved."
"I would like to see an agentless version of the solution."
"I would like to see some improvements in WSUS and control of other, non-Microsoft, product updates."
"The solution does not support remote devices so the CMG is still required."
"As far as load balancing across, they don't have that support yet, so that you can actually build multiple primaries and have it load balance across. They don't have any of that functionality yet. That would be a nice feature, to scale that way."
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Jamf Pro is ranked 1st in Mobile Device Management (MDM) with 103 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews. Jamf Pro is rated 9.6, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Jamf Pro writes "Customizable with a self-service portal and a good security posture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". Jamf Pro is most compared with Microsoft Intune, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, SOTI MobiControl and IBM MaaS360, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Kaseya VSA.
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