A close to perfect MDM solution
First off let me clarify my product review only covers Microsoft Intune now called Microsoft Endpoint Manager. I used it to manage all of …
Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune + SCCM)
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What is Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune + SCCM)?
Microsoft Endpoint Manager, combining the capabilities of the former Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, SCCM or ConfigMgr with the mobile device management application Microsoft Intune, is presented as a unified endpoint management option.
The former Microsoft Intune is an endpoint management solution for mobile devices, an MDM solution that allows the user to securely manage iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS devices with a single endpoint management solution.
The component Endpoint Configuration Manager (the former SCCM) is a system monitoring and management platform that can be deployed as an agent, via the cloud, or on-premises. It can manage systems across OS types (Windows, Mac, Linux), as well as multiple environments, including servers, virtual environments, and mobile devices from a single management console, and supports scaling capabilities, such as future application delivery.
The former Microsoft Intune is an endpoint management solution for mobile devices, an MDM solution that allows the user to securely manage iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS devices with a single endpoint management solution.
The component Endpoint Configuration Manager (the former SCCM) is a system monitoring and management platform that can be deployed as an agent, via the cloud, or on-premises. It can manage systems across OS types (Windows, Mac, Linux), as well as multiple environments, including servers, virtual environments, and mobile devices from a single management console, and supports scaling capabilities, such as future application delivery.
The platform includes a customizable reporting tool to inform future business software decisions. It also enables endpoint protection from malware and vulnerability identification within the monitored systems and infrastructure.
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| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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September 04, 2021
A close to perfect MDM solution
First off let me clarify my product review only covers Microsoft Intune now called Microsoft Endpoint Manager. I used it to manage all of macOS and Windows 10 computers to deploy apps, compliance policies, configuration profiles, Windows autopilot, and to onboard my devices to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
- Windows Autopilot
- Integrates well with Apple devices
- Good tech support
- Runs in the cloud there is no need to put up an on-premises server
- Deploying more apps besides Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Office 365 app
- Microsoft needs to make it easier to deploy exe, pkg, and msi apps without having to go through the manual process of re-packaging these apps using tools from github like intuneapputil
- Add a feature to push out software updates for 3rd party apps
June 30, 2021
Microsoft Endpoint Manager takes the headaches out of enterprise mobile device management
Our company is using Microsoft EndPoint Manager \ Intune to manage all our our mobile devices across the enterprise - tablets, mobile phones, and laptops. We apply security policies and administer all of these devices via Intune in the cloud. It is great to have a centralized, SaaS based solution so that we don't have to manage any infrastructure in our data centers. Intune makes sure that company data and emails stay secure even on employee owned assets. It is very easy to remotely and securely wipe an application or device that gets lost or stolen as well.
- Centralized administration of mobile devices - updates, security, reporting
- Seamless integration with SCCM
- ability to wipe devices remotely if lost or stolen
- built in reports aren't very useful.
- could be more cost effective.
Used to deploy, manage and monitor mobile devices (mostly mobile phones) and client computers. Great for mobile phones which are usually very hard to manage, especially when you have a mixture of Android and IOs devices that need to manage and protect.
- Mobile device management
- Device policies
- DLP
- Managing different OSes on mobile devices.
- Customization of end user portal.
Our organization uses Microsoft endpoint manager on our campus to supply updates , security patches , install applications and inventory devices seamlessly to 1500 users. SCCM addresses the issue of having technicians touch each individual device across our campus. We are able to isolate different graduating years and install necessary applications pertaining to each individual group with in the console. Each year we have to reimage each individual device and also add devices for incoming students, Microsoft Endpoint manager has simplified this process by being able to create a golden image than can be applied to different make and model of devices.
- Simplify rollout of devices
- Inventory thousands of devices and users
- Apply patches and applications to multiple devices at once
- Perhaps a more intuitive GUI
- A built in database with specific queries
Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune + SCCM) is used in various ways in my company and the companies I'm an MSP for. Mostly it is used in Microsoft 365 Business Premium environments and it does a great job of gathering end point information as well as give us the ability to push out Microsoft Desktop apps and Microsoft Edge as well as other apps. It's also nice that I can setup specific configurations and settings for Windows, 365 desktop apps, and Edge just like when using Group Policy for on premise servers and PCs. But using Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune + SCCM) is much easier to use and implement.
- Able to create Compliance Policies and Configuration Profiles
- Configure Windows Update settings
- Configure Endpoint security settings and Windows Defender Antivirus
- Create App Protection and Configuration Policies
- More hardware details of devices such as drives, memory, etc.
- Ability to remotely connect to a PC without 3rd party software
- Not really any other cons that stand out
We use [Microsoft] Endpoint Manager [(Microsoft Intune + SCCM)] for all of our workstations that are either hybrid Azure AD joined or simply Azure joined devices. We also use it to manage iDevices. We have used SCCM for several years now, and when Intune announced the co-management capability, we made the transition very quickly. There are certain elements that Intune does not handle, such as bare metal imaging, but otherwise we have moved all workloads to Intune while maintaining our SCCM on prem. This covers device compliance, WSUS, application deployment, configuration profiles, etc.
- SCCM imaging can't be beat
- Intune application deployment and WSUS ensures that devices are getting updates and applications, especially in WFH scenarios
- The upgraded interface is much easier to work with than older SCCM iterations (2007 and below)
- The ADMX templates are still lacking in some areas
- Like SCCM, Endpoint Manager requires patience
- It would be nice if there was better integration for remote connectivity
We use Endpoint manager to manage all the windows devices in the organization, both shared and 1:1 from a central IT department over 100 different sites. It allows us to consistently apply policies, maintain security and track inventory at a distance. It allows us to control our onboarding of new devices, imaging said devices, and deliver software, updates in a consistent manner.
- Inventory management.
- Policy enforcement
- Device Tracking
- Imaging
- Continuous updates add new functionality
- Update delays in the subsystems
- Artificial limits on number of items displayed in lists, different on each page.
- Continous updates means that the location to find features moves.
We currently utilize [Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune + SCCM)] across most of our organization. We recently acquired a different business and are in the process of trying to get SCCM deployed to that side. We primarily utilize this to help ensure patching/updates are pushed out on a timely basis for our systems.
- [Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune + SCCM)] helps to speed up the deployment of patches/software throughout our environment. I can easily build a package and then deploy across all endpoints.
- The ability to supercede software is also quite handy. This automates the removal of old versions and replacing them with newer versions.
- The Intune Autopilot option is very useful if you want to deploy software to devices straight out of the box. You can configure them to download software when a user opens a new PC and turns it on for the first time.
- The one major drawback to SCCM is the delays or inability to deploy software if the device doesn't stay online long enough. This is particularly an issue in our environment for those users who work remotely and don't connect to our VPN client. If you can deploy via Cloud agent, this issue should go away
- There is a steep learning curve in getting SCCM configured and creating packages created, but it works great once configured.
January 28, 2021
SCCM in 2021 from an end user's perspective
MS Endpoint Manager is currently being used at our organization as a standard way of deploying applications across multiple departments. It lessens the burden of deploying multiple applications to multiple departments that have different software needs and such. From an admin perspective, it's easier to manage the applications that are deployed in a specific group (Finance, HR, Administrative Roles, IT Admins, Support, etc) instead of manually provisioning each endpoint with a specific old-school "Check-list" style approach.
- Ease of Management
- East of Deployment
- Quick Overview
- Reliability
- Lack of further updates.
January 22, 2021
Great for Cloud Management
We are in the process of transitioning from Group Policy over to Microsoft Endpoint Manager. We are using it for controlling our policies and setting up our standard operating environment. as well as application deployment. It allows us to standardize what we are doing and automate IT functions, freeing up valuable resources to be better spent elsewhere.
- Policy Management
- Application Deployment
- Cloud Management
- Pricing
- Steep Learning Curve
January 22, 2021
Microsoft Intune + SCCM Review
We use MS Intune and SCCM with our Azure cloud solution for all of our offices.
It is great tools to control and monitoring our security, servers and applications.
Manage mobile devices is highly important now days, so now we can manage our phones and tablets in modern way with modern approach.
It is great tools to control and monitoring our security, servers and applications.
Manage mobile devices is highly important now days, so now we can manage our phones and tablets in modern way with modern approach.
- We can add and assign mobile apps to user groups and devices
- Manage access on personal devices by restricting actions users can do or not
- Wipe or removing organization data from apps
- Reporting should be improved
- Better integration with AV software
- AI integration with alert notification about unusual user behavior
September 24, 2020
Intune - A powerful MDM tool for Office 365 users
Microsoft Intune is used to provide corporate data access via email app and other mobile apps on the mobile device of an employee. Intune enables the use of a personal mobile device to access emails and other official data in a secure environment where the IT team has full control over the flow of information. It is used throughout the organization where employees are eligible for email access via mobile. The business does not have to worry about data leakage and it provide 24/7 access to emails to employees.
- Device management.
- Complete control over the flow of information on the mobile device.
- Allows secure data access on BYOD.
- Compliance and policy enforcement on the Office apps in mobile.
- Dashboard customization can be improved.
- Privacy between personal and office data as i don't want that my company control my phone.
- Location service could be improved.
- Enhanced security and integration with other apps.
February 18, 2020
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Review
We use it for monthly Windows updates, image deployment to workstations, server and application deployment. It's being used in all departments to:
- Quickly patch/deploy applications all laptops, desktops.
- Push down new, updated Windows 10 OS versions.
- OS imaging and deployment via BOOTP across various locations through North America
- Patch management across various locations through North America
- Easier to find where something is inside the application.
- Faster results after patching has been completed, and it takes hours some time to see if a server was patched or something failed to install.
January 25, 2020
The one to beat for Windows application deployment and patching
We use SCCM for application and Windows desktop, laptop, and server patching. We accompany it with the PatchMyPC addons, so we can update the majority of applications we use for end-users.
We also use it to deploy security software.
- Windows and Office patching: SCCM does this really well. It is efficient, reliable, and easy to schedule. It's quite simple to keep machines updated once they've been registered.
- Application Deployment: SCCM very effectively deploys application and application updates. We use it very effectively to reinstall our security software if it gets uninstalled or needs to be updated.
- Reporting: The SQL Reporting Services oriented user-interface is really not particularly user-friendly.
- Inventory: The inventory function is overly basic and difficult to search. If this were improved to be a legitimate asset management tool, it would tremendously increase the value of SCCM to organizations.
January 17, 2020
Microsoft Intune Review
We use it for mobile device management, mobile application management, Mac OS management, and Windows 10 management. I have also converted GPO to Intune Policies for Windows 10 devices. The Bitlocker key is also being managed by Intune. I set up the company portal for self-services application installs.
- Software deployment.
- Device wipe.
- Reporting.
- User notification for patching/rebooting.
It is being used both across the whole organization and at the department levels. It is centrally managed by the main IT group in the organization, and then individual departments have their own instance of SCCM to be able to use to manage resources/deploy software, etc. It addresses the business problem of having a central Systems Management solution that can pretty much do most everything, including managing all hardware endpoints, managing software, monitoring, asset management, managing antimalware and firewall policies, etc. in an organization.
- It has nice GUI's built-in for many of the functions throughout the program. This helps to make it easier for the IT Administrator to be able to utilize certain features/functions when using SCCM.
- It doesn't use a lot of system resources when running, or even if left open on the server. This is good, as it enables those that work with the program to still be productive with being able to run other programs/software on the server.
- It has really good remote assistance options built-in. This is particularly helpful for the IT Admin being able to assist end-users over a remote session or to remotely connect to computers. This is also a benefit for organizations that don't have a commercial remote assistance product in place.
- The program itself can be challenging to use, especially if there hasn't been any formal training on the use of the product. Either training/reviewing documentation is recommended prior to using SCCM.
- At times, it can be difficult to try and find out why a certain machine that's listed in SCCM says that the endpoint has the SCCM client and shows as Active, but in fact, it's not. It's also difficult at times to try and figure out why the client can't be pushed down to the endpoint.
- Even though the remote assistance features in SCCM are really good, it can be challenging at times when the remote options don't work for a particular endpoint, even though the machine is active, online, etc.
November 22, 2019
Microsoft Intune - a great option for device management
We needed to deploy a point of sale on mobile devices and we wanted to have a clear control over what the device could do, so we looked for an MDM.
- Enrollment process.
- Application deployment.
- Many security features.
- VPN deployment.
- Device searches.
- In the tagging of devices by project.
October 18, 2019
Relax and let SCCM do the job for you to do other stuff
It is used by two departments, enterprise services (e.g Infrastructure Administration, Email, Sharepoint, etc) and Help Desk.
- Patching lots of computers (in my case 400+) without leaving your seat!! Less administrative overheads.
- Deploying new machines with a standard image that is the same across the organisation and no one has a different set of image and therefore consistancy within the organsation.
- Provide a comprehensive inventory of the organisation's computer assets.
- Provide security auditors with patching compliance reports within the organisation.
- Driver portals for different PC/Laptop manufactures.
- There is no dashboard for the executive summary of the organisation's patch levels.
- Being able to see the downloaded patches (labeled with KB numbers) according to their names on the SCCM server.
August 31, 2019
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager does it all, but you need to know how to do it, which has a learning curve
SCCM is used across our entire organization. We use it for zero-day remediations, as well as large scale package deployments. It saves the company an immense amount of hours wasted for on-site support team members having to manually install packages. We can also pull reports of software versions across our environment and deploy patches accordingly for any PC that's out of compliance.
- It allows users to install packages from a Self-servicing application via an app called Software Center.
- It allows for fast remediation of vulnerabilities across your organization.
- Provides reports for high-level visibility of your environment for upper management.
- Building a collection and deployment takes some time to learn. It isn't very user intuitive.
- Getting up to date reports on a deployment isn't a one-click process. It requires triggering multiple events and waiting about 10-15 minutes
- I wish there was a dashboard feature built into SCCM. I manage the JAMF platform in my environment as well, and this is one of the key features I rely on every day. When I need to pull a report in System Center Configuration Manager it is just clunky.
August 03, 2019
Very powerful and hard to work with
System Center Configuration Manager was used as a solution for OS deployment, remote troubleshooting, and patch management for Windows PCs in our organization. The plan was to use it to manage close to a thousand PCs in total. As the product required an excessive number of man-hours to implement and support, its use was dropped after a year, and an alternative selected. The main goal was to improve OS deployment and replace WDS.
- Remote Control works well and does not require a lot of configuration. It must be understood that the Remote Control feature of System Center Configuration Manager is different from RDP, as it does not establish a separate user session and allows a tech to troubleshoot issues in a way visible to a user.
- It is easy to add client devices for management, and multiple options are available (push, Active Directory, etc.)
- It's modular and extensible. For example, a third-party company, Parallels, makes a System Center Configuration Manager plugin to manage Macs from the same console.
- Installation is very laborious and complicated. The number of things to manually configure during the installation is incredible.
- OS deployment is hard to configure and troubleshoot. The Microsoft article on deploying Windows 10 via System Center Configuration Manager in a test environment takes 44 minutes to read (Microsoft's estimate, not mine -- check here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/windows-10-poc-sc-config-mgr). If something goes wrong, there are multiple log locations to check on both the server and client, making troubleshooting difficult.
- The management console looks old, and its performance isn't great. It is often hard to find settings in the console, and it refreshes slowly. The old name for System Center Configuration Manager, SMS, comes to mind often. "Slowly Moving Software."
We use SCCM for a number of different use cases including imaging, OS and software deployments, inventory and desktop management. Its primary function is to push new software to the fleet. The benefit is being able to time when and what gets deployed and make it done in an automated fashion. We also use it to manage to patch existing software packages (in conjunction with a product called Ninite).
- You are able to create queries to identify almost any combination of computers needed.
- Its direct tie to active directory.
- It fully leverages Windows functionality.
- Its mac integrations, though improving, are really not much more than inventory.
- It could benefit from an enterprise remote control solution more similar to Bomgar or LogMeIn.
- Its web interface for reporting is very dated.
Across all of IT, SCCM is used for deployment of software as well as Windows patching. It is used for both server patches as well as workstation patches—both laptop and desktop—on a monthly basis. It handles the patch process much more efficiently than its predecessor here—WSUS.
- It's easy to group machines into separate categories, such as servers and workstations, or more in-depth categories, such as location X workstations and location Y servers, to easily target them for patches.
- Sending software to a workstation through SCCM is simple!
- Patching can be handled with bandwidth restrictions in mind, letting only X% of the wire be used for patching and even allowing the patches to go to a specific downstream server at a location to let all local workstations leech from there instead of the web or WAN.
- It takes time to implement SCCM. Take advantage of an integration company whenever possible.
- Its capabilities are broad and can go so deep that it takes a while to understand just a portion of it. Get training whenever possible.
- Reporting is useful but could be expanded to more of a Power BI capability.
Currently, we're using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager to manage all our Windows assets, from PCs to laptops. Considering we use it across all organization, and we have a dozen of remote sites, some of them with distribution points, I can safely say that we solve basically 2 big business problem: We can manage all of those assets from a single pane of glass, delivering software with software-central feature, managing and keeping a eye on the status of those updates and also saving bandwidth at the same time, because we can deploy those software and updates from that distribution point, avoiding to have every single PC/laptop to download from the Internet itself.
- You can run an inventory of your assets, from PCs to laptops, grouping them by location, type, department, all tight to your own Active Directory. That saves a lot of time when you need to report the status of hardware and software. You can even manage alerts to inform you when some hardware change has happened, which could possibly lead to a robbery.
- You can centralize software distribution, controlling what kind of software is available for your organization, and here's the most important part: you can give end-users the power to install/remove that software by themselves. That way, you can avoid a ticket to your service desk and potentially save money on those tickets too.
- Also, due to the distributed architecture of the product, you can deploy a component of the system in each remote site you have. Thanks to that, you can avoid using the bandwidth of the remote site, which usually is already limited, to download software/updates to each PC locally. You just need to download once for the distribution point it will deliver locally. You can also avoid the risk of having your local WAN to be contested by some unexpected outdated PC that was just connected to your network.
- The licenses can be expensive if you are a small organization. Make sure you have a good deal with your Microsoft partner.
- Deal with collections can be a little hard sometimes. Collections are the say the product classify or organize the groups. As the concept is a little different from what we're used to, like Active Directory Organizational Units or Security Groups, etc., it's best if you spend some time studying this before you deploy the product in your organization, especially if your organization has severy business or business units and remote sites.
- You don't have as much product specialists as you have for other Microsoft products like MS Exchange, for example. So, make sure you hire a partner that have the skills needed to help you during the deploy of the product. Indeed, it is a complex product and it demands attention to details to avoid frustration in the future. People tend to save money on the implementation phase and that leads to frustration and, in some cases, projects cancellation due to underestimation of the requirements of the product.
June 19, 2019
Microsoft SCCM may not be the ROI you are looking for, but the product helps your admins
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is used for imaging our computers, but it is also used to deploy policies and software packages to specific users or groups.
By utilizing Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, the IT admins spend less time manually installing applications for our end users. It allows us to centrally manage what is being deployed to the computers in our environment and run reports on the computers and what is installed on them.
By utilizing Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, the IT admins spend less time manually installing applications for our end users. It allows us to centrally manage what is being deployed to the computers in our environment and run reports on the computers and what is installed on them.
- Centrally managing applications, configuration settings and policies makes it easier to deploy. So when someone requests an application or is missing the application, I can jump on the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager console and add them to the software deployment and generally within the hour, the application is installed on their computer. It can be manually forced to pull the change as well if you don't want to wait up to an hour.
- Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager does take a lot of time to learn and manage. There are a lot of bits and pieces to keep up to date (software packages, drivers, OS builds, computer model packages). It is not something that you can easily pickup and start configuring. And with automation, making a mistake can cause the scripts to take days instead of hours.
- There are frequently update failures. I understand many of these are configuration problems on our end or that the state of the computer is such that the updates cannot be pushed to it. But I feel like it happens a bit much.
May 01, 2019
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is great for medium sized businesses and up
It is very effective for simple tasks such as pushing out Windows updates, Defender updates, and a large array of other software. We have also started using it for servicing Windows 10 computers. With the modern life cycle of Windows 10 being more aggressive then past versions, it has been extremely handy to use Windows 10 servicing to keep our computers running the latest builds of Windows 10.
- Windows 10 servicing.
- Endpoint protection policies and updates.
- Reporting.
- Surface Driver updates seem flaky.
- Sometimes needs some TLC to keep Microsoft SCCM and WSUS happy.
- Menu structure sometimes gets a little confusing.