This makes it fast and reliable, as opposed to other 3rd-party discovery methods that sometimes take too long to discover devices (even then they still may require multiple tries). SCCM relies on Active Directory for users and device discovery. Including mobile marketplaces: Apple Store, Windows Store, Google Play store
BYOD support: maintaining a list of approved-software for user devices. Rollout and reporting of antivirus and security updates. Keeping track of and compliance with software licenses, both for Microsoft and other products. That said, non-Microsoft platforms are only supported as end-clients the server portion of SCCM must of course be hosted and run on a Windows server machine.Īs a component of System Center 2012, SCCM is a competent CM solution that can be augmented by the capabilities of support products– at a cost. Additionally, because of its close tie-in with Windows, the tool can also be used for: With Satya Nadella at Microsoft’s helm, collaboration not destructive competition is the new mantra expect even more integration and interoperability between Microsoft products like SCCM and other platforms. It can be used to manage both Windows and non-Windows clients such as Mac OSX, Unix, Linux and mobile devices running Windows Phone, Android, iOS and even Symbian. Previously available as Systems Management Server (SMS), SCCM is Microsoft’s offering in the Systems Configuration Management (SCM) marketplace. This is where open source solutions like Chef come in, offering a pay-per-node pricing structure that is much more cost effective than SCCM. It’s nevertheless a truly useful product, though it may be overkill– and also horribly expensive– for smaller organizations. This is largely due to the fact that as a Microsoft product, SCCM rides on the dominance of Windows desktop and server. But even a big fish like Chef is still a minnow compared to the whale that is SCCM, which runs on about two-thirds of enterprise organizations. The following is a tale of two heavyweights in the CM arena: Microsoft’s Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Chef.
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