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It can be integrated with Microsoft Intune, allowing you to manage computers connected to a corporate network. It allows you to set configuration and security policies, keep your software up-to-date, and monitor your system status while giving your employees access to corporate applications on whatever devices they choose.Ĭonfiguration Manager allows you to manage computers using macOS, Windows UNIX, or Linux, and mobile devices running iOS, Windows, or Android operating systems. Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM, formerly SCCM or System Center Configuration Manager) is a software management suite that allows users to manage large numbers of Windows-based computers and servers.Ĭonfiguration Manager features software distribution, operating system deployment, remote control, network protection, security management, patch management, and hardware and software inventory, among other services.

Reporting How good are the reports from the utility? It’s no use having a great product, if the reporting is terrible, after all, how do we justify the cost if we cannot prove the tool is working and deploying those is Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager?.

Products Does the utility cover the applications in our estate? Secondary driver.

Well, we have MECM for our devices, so we want to use a single console for managing our updates and in the simplest way possible, why choose something that cannot use the console and is difficult to use? So that is our primary driver.

So, as you may see, this can save me and the rest of the team, a whole lot of time that we can spend on more interesting and productive tasks. Yup, 3rd party patch management utilities save us time, and lots of it.įor this post I wanted to concentrate on the most suitable (in my environment) 3rd party tool to patch what will be over two hundred and fifty thousand devices (yup, 250,000).

Why don’t we script it using PowerShell?.

What about the new version, does it work?.

Sure, we can get someone ( or, most likely, us!) to create an application and deploy it with the relevant switches so that it installs silently and without rebooting, but then what?

Luckily for those responsible for patching (and providing those reports that ‘management’ love so much) we have some excellent products available to us in the ConfigMgr world to shift the heavy workload of patching and reporting, from us, to an automated solution. What do you do? It’s just you, no-one else and there’s more apps than you can realistically handle, and they need patching yesterday… Yay for 3rd party utilities! So you have ConfigMgr installed and you’re managing thousands of devices You get asked to update all the third party applications you have.