We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration Manager and Puppet Enterprise 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 has reduced the risk of security breaches by 30%."
"I like that we can implement conditional access."
"Stable solution at a good price."
"Its direct integration with all the other products that we have from Microsoft is valuable. We're using the E5 license, and we have a whole wealth of different products available. It just makes it easier to have everything from one provider."
"The policy and compliance monitoring of devices and the software deployment are most valuable."
"This product offers an alternative solution to other UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) solutions."
"Easy to use."
"Among the most valuable features are the Company Portal that is built into Intune, and the update rings so that we can manage what types of future updates the devices get."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical-based reports of software updates that have been successful, the ones that have failed, and a summary of where the failures are what security breaches may occur."
"The tool's most valuable features are easy patch management and software deployment."
"The ease of usability is the most valuable feature. It's user-friendly."
"The ability to make collections and deploy to them has been great."
"The technical support is good."
"The scalability to deploy the package."
"This solution captures all the devices in our infrastructure."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is very scalable."
"The main purpose for this automation tool would be: deploying, controlling, ordering change for the system and IT Infrastructure."
"Puppet Enterprise is a stable solution."
"Puppet Enterprise has reduced the time of production changes or environment changes."
"Puppet Enterprise has good functionalities."
"Puppet3 and 4 series provides optimum deployment solutions for infrastructure and applications."
"Anything that we manage through Puppet always runs perfectly."
"The most valuable features are the agent, high load balancing, and overall robustness and features."
"The versatility is great."
"The configuration and pricing can be improved."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with Apple."
"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."
"Intune should be much more granular in terms of supporting more Android cellular devices."
"The reports aren't complete, and it's not easy to build custom reports. For example, Windows Autopilot isn't working well in cases where the computers don't have a good internet connection. Then the option is not good enough."
"The add-ons must be integrated into the solution."
"The solution could be improved by the opportunity to connect third-party application databases, such as Chocolatey or another setup store, to Intune."
"Lacking in features such as Wi-Fi and network security."
"It is a bit of an old and outdated product."
"Cloud-based improvements need to be better managed."
"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."
"The operations could be faster and you need some patience with this tool."
"The configuration of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager could be improved, it is a bit complicated."
"This solution should be simpler, and more consistent across modules/sections."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager can improve by allowing us to schedule the scripts, we don't have a script scheduling option and have to do it manually."
"There is a reboot issue with the patching. Sometimes, if patching runs into any issue whatsoever, it doesn't reboot but it doesn't tell you it errored out. It just sits there and we don't find out until the next day whether it patched or not. That was a big issue for us. We're working through that. They added some stuff in there now where you can actually tell reboot is pending. But we still need some kind of notification that if something fails or is pending, we know. We shouldn't have to go in and look. They don't have anything for that right now."
"Puppet Enterprise should improve the general extensibility for places where they can't install it."
"Puppet Enterprise is more complex and difficult to configure."
"We would like Puppet to add more integration for applications."
"It's a bit of a pain point to make sure that everything works once we've upgraded it because Puppet has been evolving pretty fast."
"The solution has really complex code, you have to understand the Ruby language. However, once you know the code then you can move ahead without any problems."
"There's a lot of scope for enhancement on the DevSecOps side. They should definitely include features for compliance, for both the Linux and Windows side of the devices, as well as for network devices. Compliance is something they need to work on."
"At the beginning the initial setup was kind of complex."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 78 reviews while Puppet Enterprise doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Configuration Management with 12 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while Puppet Enterprise is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Affordable, easy to use, and easy to understand". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Puppet Enterprise writes "A set-it-and-forget-it management solution". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and AWS Systems Manager, whereas Puppet Enterprise is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Red Hat Satellite, BigFix, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud.
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