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."The solution has reduced the risk of security breaches by 30%."
"The key benefit of Intune is its integration with the Microsoft ecosystem."
"It is a helpful tool to manage BYOD policies."
"It is quite policy-enabled, so you can build pretty much any policy to manage remote endpoints."
"Great for software update needs, operating system version updates, and security policy enforcement."
"Compliance and the policies that can be set are the most valuable features."
"The ability to send configurations to our systems is valuable, particularly as we don't have a regular Windows AD server. Our current environment doesn't have a Windows AD, which limits our ability to push GPOs. However, this is where the solution can step in and help us push policies."
"It is user-friendly, and the performance is also good. It is a convenient product"
"Patching is the main feature because SCCM is made to control the entire environment without manually interpreting. So it is good to use for patching."
"We are happy with the collaboration of SCCM with Patch My PC, which allows us to do patch work."
"I have found the solution to be scalable. We have around 50,000 users using the solution."
"I like a lot of the reporting capabilities and baseline configurations."
"We're a Microsoft-centric organization, so we are happy with the integration between products."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward."
"The solution effectively handles inventory management, deployment, and reporting."
"What's valuable is the basic management of the systems, being able to control who can access the systems."
"The interface is very user-friendly and the solution is simple to use."
"Configuration Manager simplifies management. Cloning via live migration is a useful feature."
"vCenter is very easy to use if you have good skills. It takes a little time to configure everything. It is template-based, so you click, click, and then reboot. It takes 15 minutes."
"The clustering part and the load balancing part are most valuable."
"The most valuable features of vCenter Configuration Manager are highly mature technology."
"Beneficial patch management and template features."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ability to manage all of our environments allowing us to have better functionality and high availability."
"My experience managing virtual environments using vCenter Configuration Manager has been quite smooth. Over time, I've observed that there's been a significant local competency built around the product, especially in India, where ESXi and VMware dominate the market. It's evident that vCenter Configuration Center is the preferred management tool in this context, and it's relatively easy to find expertise in the market."
"I think there should be a better tracking of the cell phones used on the Intune."
"There is room for improvement in integrating additional features such as Purview and SharePoint activities into Intune."
"The UI also needs improvements because it is complex for end-users. We have had feedback from a few users in our organization who found the UI is not feasible for tracking and analyzing all the processes and monitoring all the devices."
"In the next release, I would like a feature to be able to properly lock down the device. For example, if an attacker or somebody steals the phone, you can be sure that the pin cannot be broken."
"Intune's areas for improvement revolve around security and certificate management."
"It would be beneficial to have a more straightforward understanding of Intune's capabilities, presented in a simplified manner."
"I would like some integration with the Microsoft reporting platform Power BI."
"It needs certificate provisioning for S/MIME purposes."
"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 solution can be improved by speeding up the synchronizing of the policies on the devices."
"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."
"It is a bit of an old and outdated product."
"I want the system to provide some dependency relations. I would also like to see the relationship between different machines."
"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."
"They should improve their anti-malware policies like the SCEP policies. For instance, you can't have different policies for different servers, there is only one policy in all the servers, and everything is covered under that. For example, say you want to scan one group of servers on Saturday, and then you want to scan another group of servers on Sunday, you can't do that. You have to scan all your servers, a regular scan or a full scan, on the same day and at the same time. That's definitely one thing they need to resolve. In the next release, it would actually be nice if they included Apple products. It will also help if you can use Intune again. Their compliance reporting feature could also be better. They can maybe work a bit on that for patching now. It would be better if SCCM came with the functions of Right Click Tools built-in. If SCCM would have all those functions already built-in, we won't have to go and spend $5,000, just as an add-in from another company to get those functions."
"The solution should be more compatible with different versions of Linux."
"Error reporting should be more precise and descriptive, and there is no way to filter the logs. It would be helpful if its logs analysis can be more detailed, and the logs can be filtered."
"We would like to improve the UI interface and customer experience in vCenter Configuration Manager. We need a speed-based system, which is methodology checked. The migration functions, from one hardware to another and the nodes must be a partner of four nodes, which acts as a weakness. They should have advanced training and course material for vCenter solutions."
"The cost of this solution should be improved."
"The licensing model has shifted from socket-based to core-based licensing, resulting in increased customer costs. Moreover, if a customer utilizes software like VMware, which integrates seamlessly with ESXi, it becomes even more challenging to consider replacing ESXi. Hence, many customers, particularly in India, are actively exploring alternatives."
"The product's price could be lesser."
"The only challenge my company faces with the solution in relation to the customers is something that is directly related to the tool's pricing."
"I would like there to be support for this solution in Iran."
"SAP CRM could improve by adding additional automation features."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 78 reviews while vCenter Configuration Manager is ranked 9th 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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