We performed a comparison between Kace Systems Deployment Appliance and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."The solution is scalable. We currently have tens of thousands of users within our organization using the solution."
"I can see that the patch management process is much improved with the bundled patch management option available in Microsoft Intune compared to the KPI deployment required by the other deployment solutions."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the policy CSPs."
"Intune enables us to manage our devices from anywhere."
"The most valuable feature for us is the security, including risk analysis and patch management."
"I believe that the solution is actually in Gartner's top quadrant at the moment for mobile device management."
"At the moment, Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"Its ticketing is pretty good."
"Patching is very effective and reporting is very good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ability to deploy patches to nearly all applications."
"The tool's most valuable features are easy patch management and software deployment."
"What's valuable is the basic management of the systems, being able to control who can access the systems."
"I have found the solution to be scalable. We have around 50,000 users using the solution."
"The most valuable features are Remote Connect, SUP, Cloud functionality, Report, Query, and third-party patching."
"The cloud account management is a valuable feature."
"Microsoft is being very competitive right now, and they are really investing in a lot of new features to be more competitive in the marketplace."
"The main disadvantage seen today is regarding Linux clients. We have a lot of development resources that have Linux on their clients, and we can't manage them on the same platform, as we do with other clients such as macOS and Windows. So, it should have support for Linux clients. It should also have better support for macOS."
"The synchronization could be improved."
"They need to integrate more with security options."
"It would be helpful if there was proactive remediation."
"There can be more logs. I do not have any other requirements."
"There is improvement needed in integrating with the installed Office solutions versions, such as Office 2019. The Office 365 integrates without a problem."
"Reporting in Microsoft solutions is pathetic. With Intune, I'm getting a free inventory tool, but I don't get a reporting tool. When I go to Intune, I can see one machine's entire data in terms of the hardware and the software running on it, but I cannot generate a report for all the machines in the organization. The reporting is the only feature holding back the functionality that is already there."
"Microsoft Intune's support for Mac devices is lacking and could be improved."
"I have heard feedback that the imaging is slow. It takes somewhere around an hour to image one PC."
"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."
"On some hardware, we'd like an easier way to get peripherals attached."
"One area of improvement is regarding the patching of Office 365 products. We have some difficulties on this side, and it can be improved."
"Built in PowerShell cmdlets would be a nice feature because managing clients remotely can be a pain without knowing the WMI calls to run."
"This solution needs to be supported on all Operating systems."
"I would like to see more automation."
"I want the system to provide some dependency relations. I would also like to see the relationship between different machines."
"It is not easy to get good technical support, especially at level one."
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Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is ranked 28th in Configuration Management while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 78 reviews. Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is rated 7.0, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Kace Systems Deployment Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good ticketing but accessing inventory needs to be easier". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Affordable, easy to use, and easy to understand". Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is most compared with , whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and AWS Systems Manager.
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