Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager

Easier to set up and leverage than SCCM. Ivanti provides a suite that is more powerful and learning friendly. If you have a mix of users that are on-premises and remote, Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager (formerly LANDESK Management Suite) is a good solution. We have not had a great experience with the integration to macOS, but it works on-premises most of the time. If you are looking for an all-in-one solution that can provide end-to-end management, from service desk to reporting and asset management, Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager (formerly LANDESK Management Suite) is an excellent fit.

Mixed OS environments (Windows, Mac, Linux) and where WSUS or SCCM can not cover (non-domain computers, non-windows devices, off LAN devices, and work from home users).

There is no direct replacement for the on-prem Ivanti [Unified Endpoint Manager (formerly LANDESK Management Suite)] solution. Ivanti has a companion product called Neurons, but that is in additional cost, and requires configuration with your on-prem [Unified Endpoint Manager] instance to perform basic functions. If cloud-based is a requirement for your organization, this is likely a dealbreaker. You can implement [Unified Endpoint Manager] in a cloud instance such as AWS, but the support for this appears limited.
If on-prem is not an issue for you, this is a great tool for device management. It has robust features, impressive inventory, massive customization options, and excellent vendor support. If Patch Management is a problem in your company right now, this is the first product I would evaluate.

You need to push O365 or some product out to your institution. If you need to build out a reboot before and after and maybe something else, [Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager (formerly LANDESK Management Suite)] can easily do that for you. It then can also use a query to determine who needs that product in your environment and then continue using that query to watch for the machines you targeted to show up once your push succeeded. If you need to, you can use the task scheduler and schedule your software distribution for a specific not in normal business hours or on a weekend.

It can be used in scenarios where you want to compose the desktop, including publishing app shortcuts to users. Another area is access control: it can provide you with conditional access control based on the context of the user. Furthermore, capturing user settings is a good area, you can even restore previous settings for a specific app in case it had issues.

Ivanti UEM can do a lot of things and can fit a large amount of needs for businesses. The training required to operate the product effectively is a little on the heavy side, but when maintained and learned, can lead to a mostly automated process.


As Ivanti brings on more products through acquisitions, they limit themselves by forcing to many key products to a-la-cart purchasing.

If you are looking for a complete solution to manage and secure your endpoints, Ivanti is the way to go. Especially great in environments that have multiple sites and are global. If you have a small site (< 20 devices), the cost may not be justified depending on your needs. But for sites with a few hundred devices or more, this is a great arrow in your quiver of solutions to managing your IT needs.

It is well suited for retail because of the decentralized nature of the endpoints. I think it would be well worth any environment that sees personal devices on corporate networks for the base agent with AV reasons. It is probably not best for small establishments that would not exceed 200 devices overall unless patch management is a real pain point.

Ivanti Endpoint Manager is well suited for remote control administration of workstations at remote sites. By using either the regular remote control function or the HTML remote control function, you can easily remote control a machine regardless of the speed of the connection to it. Being able to lock out a user's keyboard and mouse is an excellent feature as well. This prevents "fighting" for control with some end users.

EPM does a really good job historically of patch management for OS and third-party patching. Third-party patching is generally quite difficult given that the OS is usually the main focus, but third party applications are a valid attack vector. EPM also does a good job of automating provisioning builds It has the potential to grow and expand even further with continued development. Identifying system information and reporting is another key area that EPM is very useful. Areas, where it is not well suited, tends to be small. There is a lot the system can do, but it generally takes someone who knows it well to accomplish the task. Agent-less software deployment similar to Ansible is totally feasible, but it's not intuitive or marketed in towards this type of software deployment.

Ivanti UEMP has helped our organization improve our OS provisioning and maintenance of systems. We are able to better support our customrs with remote support that works every time. We have seen a significantly lower amount of times we have to re-image a machine with a layered approach to system imaging and provisioning.

This tool is well suited for managing all of our Windows endpoints. We're starting to deploy Apple devices into our company and using this to manage those too but it's been difficult.

Ivanti seems to work great in the Windows world. If you have a lot of Macs in your environment that require regular re-imaging this might not be the best tool.

Best suited for medium or large environments without SCCM or alternatives already. It can cover 90% of what you'll need to do as a systems administrator with just what LANDESK can do with a couple of modules added.

For those who already have SCCM and a Help Desk CRM then the question is about the benefit of IT consolidation and the actual improvements you'll see in LANDESK over those others. It might be worth the cost (we thought it did) but that's up to the organization and could be very situational dependent.

Bottom line is that I can assure you that if you have it you'll use it for something How much you use it is up to you.

Basically, it helps us a lot when running software deployments.

When provisioning multiple devices and managing software installs and their sequential patching goes, this is a great automation tool sure to save you time and effort. Ivanti has taken Landesk's IP and improved on it greatly in the latest release. There are a few licensing modules sure to please most businesses and the support, as with other Ivanti products, is fantastic.

For an environment where it is majority PCs, this would be ideal because you can maintain them remotely. If you have a larger Mac environment and less PCs, another suite better suited for Macs would be better and the PCs can be done manually. Not sure if there is a solution for both.

Everywhere where IT-staff wants to handle standard procedures with automation or minimal effort, making time for other projects.

If you are a mid to small company Ivanti can easily replace SSCM.

It is well suited to work with end users on keeping the software and security up to date on their computers. It is essential that we have a client to send updates in an ever-changing IT world.

If you are supporting users all over the world, IEM makes supporting endpoints there, as easy as if they are across the hall. Supports many ways to create software distribution that will truly push software to users, both in and out of the office.

One of the great functions it has and we have recently used was renewing all the endpoint computers to our standards which we did through them. The other challenge we had was to reset all the local admin passwords of the machines we have globally which we did easily through Ivanti (LANDESK).

Ivanti Endpoint Manager is a very powerful program. It is a great product that can work for medium and large businesses to manage their endpoints. It makes patch management easy, and to be able to silently install software from our IT office has saved us a lot of time. It is a great product that just needs more fine-tuning to make it more user-friendly.

It is quite powerful. Great for a large company trying to manage and solve multiple objectives with a single product. Would be a little too much for anyone with less than say 200 endpoints to manage.

Simply put, Ivanti Endpoint Manager allows customers to automate and optimize the complex IT processes that are consuming IT resources and gives IT professionals the tools to work faster and smarter. It enables IT intelligence.