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Last updated March 15th, 2026

# Page 3 - Reviews of System Center

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Charith R.  
System Center Admin SCCM  
Insurance  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Microsoft System Center is the best Central Manage your IT Device & Users SCCM or MECM"

April 20, 2021

5.0

Best discribe is best way to mange IT infrasture SCCM

Pros

System center configuration manager can use deploy Software,Windos patches level,inventry the Hard ware,software,remote conectivity..best secure software fo the IT infranstures

Cons

Actually SCCM define the manage Computer hardware software level.we can deploy all windows patch level,software level,Operating system upgrade,power management also.

Reason for choosing System Center

Because Sri Lanka insurance mostly use Microsoft product ant they give the best support also.

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Denis V.  
MS SQL Server DBA  
  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "System Center your private cloud."

February 15, 2018

4.0

This system spans most area of technologies required for your business. It is not very easy to set all system up, but when everything is done, you can enjoy management your whole infrastructure.

Pros

With multiple components of this system you can build your own private cloud, in which you can manage your own virtual machines, which can be based on different technologies Hyper-V or VMware,do backups to protect your data, monitor your infrastructure and automate routine tasks. And all those things can be tightly integrated with public Microsoft cloud Azure in hybrid scenario or for realization different separate purposes as backuping, site recovery, automation and LogAnalitics in the cloud.

Cons

No so easy to setup and manage, required experience and knowledge from administrator in multiple IT arias.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
System Expert  
Banking  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "What is System Center"

April 26, 2019

5.0

This product is almost identical to the HP BSM. SCCM is more cost-effective if total purchasing costs are prioritized.

Pros

SCCM allows us to manage mobile devices with physical and virtual clients. It can centralize installation, configuration, and update operations. We can also enable it to integrate with other components such as Active Directory, WSUS.

Cons

Since this product is designed for large structures, it takes some time to learn. Also the price is a bit expensive.

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BM

Brandon M.  
System Administrator  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Try managing 3000 devices without something like this."

April 2, 2018

4.0

We can manage 400 servers and 2500 desktops with ease.

Pros

Automation and reporting for compliance. All Windows Updates are delivered and staged in a controlled and predictable fashion at scale. Machines obey the rules and report back compliance. This makes it easy to only worry about a few systems that are not well behaved. Same can be said of delivering applications, OS feature updates, and OS images. I can't imagine dealing with this many Windows systems without a tool like this.

Cons

To deal with things at scale everything works with delays and over a period of time. This can sometimes make creating and testing changes difficult as it can take time for this to all work. All work is in the background and log analyzers are needed to understand what a client is doing if it is not working.

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MF

Mark F.  
Director  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Microsoft System Center Service Manager"

January 5, 2017

4.0

Little know Microsoft ships an enterprise class ITSM Help Desk tool with its System Center suite. It is built around the ITIL frame work and covers incident, problem, change, release, knowledge, asset and service management. It is really well thought out, if you think like Microsoft. It is not the easiest tool to navigate nor to customize. If you invest yourself it is capable of a serious amount of automation. I have a love hate relationship with it. Once you get it working it is really good, but it doesn't have the fullest amount of documentation and requires you to do a lot of self learning. For us it is worth the price. It is included in an enterprise agreement.

Pros

It is full featured and tracks all of the ticket types we want to

Cons

Complex, not well documented

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DE

Diana E.  
Architect  
Hospital & Health Care  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "System Center Tools 2012 R2; Configuration Manager,Orchestrator,Operations Manager,Service Manager"

February 1, 2017

5.0

Configuration Manager, Orchestrator, Operations Manager, and Service Manager. I administer, develop in, and technically use each of these products. As a whole, as long as their is an understanding of Data Center Management, these tools are smart to implement as well as ease of crossing lines with these tools as far as going from creating deployments in Configuration Manager, creating a runbook in Orchestrator or setting up new Event ID's for custom monitoring in Operations Manager, and even creating Self-Service Service-Requests to accommodate all of this in an automated fashion has been made much easier and efficient. Thank you Microsoft System Center team for your continued efforts in making our jobs as Tools administrators easier and more efficient.

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Nicolai S.  
User Support on behalf of Xylos  
Food Production  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Happy about SCOM and SCCM of system center"

February 4, 2019

5.0

I have used System Center for as well as monitoring as deploying software to clients for the company I currently work for. In the future I will also use this to deploy operating systems and provide updates using system center.

Pros

Gives the the very useful possibility to monitor systems, to deploy laptops with an operating systems and their applications. Also nice to provide updates to the clients.

Cons

It's a pretty high cost and it's not the most straightforward. It's quite complex and requires a specific point of technical expertise.

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JB

James B.  
Infrastructure Engineer  
Health, Wellness and Fitness  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "System Center "

December 5, 2018

5.0

Excellent software for managing Infrastructure and workstations

Pros

Microsoft have collaborated a good set of software. Allowing management of multiple systems within the system center group of software. It is easy to use and manage.

Cons

If problems arise troubleshooting can be a problem. There are a lot of logs to look through, and in experience, MS support is required

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David Junior C.  
Analyst of Monitoring IT  
Banking  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "A great solution in all in one"

June 9, 2020

4.0

With System Center Operations Manager we resolve the lacks of deep monitoring, like if any services on Windows Server goes down, if a deamon on Linux/Solaris server goes down. With System Center Operations Manager we can monitoring Services, SNMP, WMI, Ping, etc.

Pros

It allows you get all information, all monitoring features on any devices where the agent is installed. It allows you develope an software update or a windows update.

Cons

To use the all features on a end devices, you must install the agent of System Center. Without the agent the features are limited.

Reason for choosing System Center

We choose both. Solarwinds Orion for SNMP and Ping monitoring and SCOM for deep monitoring.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Manager Service Desk  
Consumer Goods  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "SCCM Great Way to Image A Computer"

December 19, 2018

4.0

Pros

I really like the ability to image a computer remotely. I also like the ability to see who was the last person to log into a computer, it really helps with tracking down a rogue computer.

Cons

The learning curve with SCCM is pretty high and can take a while to learn how to use it.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Senior Systems Developer - Server Team  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Good suite of products that together are very powerful"

April 20, 2018

4.0

Centralisation, visiblity and automation in our environment.

Pros

Largely good integration between the various products of the suite. Good integration with Microsoft's cloud offerings through the various products within the suite

Cons

Some functionality is very complex, some areas of the product are not consistent across the suite.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
System Architect  
Banking  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Central Control for Servers"

April 25, 2019

5.0

Our IT department consists of mainly Windows servers and System Center is the ideal tool to manage them all from one source. We use it very frequently.

Pros

You can manage your servers easily from this tool. Execute a script, send an update file, a patch or anything for your need.

Cons

It takes time to get used to it and learn all its capabilities.

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RP

Ryan P.  
IT Tech  
Automotive  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Very Versatile"

September 11, 2018

5.0

Pros

Microsoft System Center is a platform for datacenter management. I have worked with several companies using this resource. It streamlines processes to save both time and money. It is a great tool.

Cons

Unfortunately, this software can be expensive and therefore cumbersome to even a medium sized business.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Senior System Analyst  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "SCCM for Microsoft Systems"

May 23, 2019

5.0

Image management and operating system set up with SCCM. We also do windows updates and application installations with SCCM. We have distribution points in our remote locations.

Pros

Distribution points very useful and working good. DP's reduce network load.

Cons

Support for non-Microsoft products is not very good.

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oY

orhangazi Y.  
system architect  
Banking  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Serves everything for a Datacenter!"

April 3, 2019

5.0

Pros

System center has several sub-products to manage datacenters; like scom and sccm. Sccm is very practical tool to manage hyperv servers and virtual machines. Scom is used to automate jobs on servers.

Cons

some tasks on hyperv servers are unable to be complete on sccm.

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RS

Ryan S.  
Associate Systems Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Must-have for Windows Administration"

June 11, 2018

5.0

Awesome Windows Managability

Pros

Love the amount of features and control you have with System Center. Has functionality to fully manage a full windows enterprise

Cons

Takes a long time to set up. Can be difficult to troubleshoot. Can be expensive and pricing can be confusing.

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Marc L.  
Senior Systems Engineer  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Another Microsoft back office product"

April 9, 2018

4.0

Pros

There is a lot this can do, we used it primarily for Configuration manager and endpoint protection. It's a good product.

Cons

Like many of Microsoft products, high learning curve and complex setup for even seemingly easy tasks.

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WB

William B.  
Assistant Technology Coordinator  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "System Center - WDS on Overdrive?"

April 16, 2019

4.0

I would recommend System Center to any business or district with a large amount of Windows workstations. It works great for our staff who need to be able to install any application on their machine that they need.

Pros

System Center is an excellent piece of software provided by Microsoft that runs as a virtual server in our rack. It has been extremely helpful in streamlining our process in which we push out applications. In addition, System Center also allows us to publish our own "app store" that allows our faculty to download what they want on their machines without needing admin access. It also handles all WDS functionality on top of everything else.

Cons

It is very difficult to set up compared to a simple WDS server. We are still not configured fully after a couple months of tweaking with it. Perhaps we are doing something wrong, but it seems as confusing to configure as a domain controller.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Network Support Associate  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "System Center provides a powerful way to configure clients. "

August 1, 2018

4.0

Pros

System Center provide many options for configuring your clients. It uses AD to view any PC on the network, and manage them. The reports that it can provide are very detailed and easy to access. You can do almost anything to your endpoints with this product.

Cons

It is very expensive to implement, and does take much time and training to learn to use. There are a lot of errors that are not detailed clearly and sometimes the admin tools are hard to access.

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RL

Rogelio L.  
IT Assistant  
Government Administration  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "System Center User Experience"

July 5, 2020

4.0

Is a solution for device inventory.

Pros

Devices are easy find. Users too. It comes with many good report.

Cons

Reports are not too easy to modify. My opinion take a time to master this tool.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Supervisor of Network Administration  
Mining & Metals  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Worth the Effort"

September 26, 2018

4.0

If you're willing to invest the time and resources necessary to do this right, System Center is a powerful tool that can streamline the administration of all computers on your network.

Pros

If you have to manage a large number of computers on network, this is an indispensable tool. It provides a consistent & robust method to deploy new computers, install software, and manage security patches.

Cons

This software requires a serious commitment. It is complicated to setup and administer.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
User Services Administrator  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "No Better Way To Manage Windows Clients"

November 2, 2018

5.0

Pros

System Center makes it nearly mindless to deploy new Windows client machines, manage updates, and make pre-approved software easily accessible to end-users. Also, it's remote assistance capabilities work pretty well.

Cons

While it does do remotely assisting end-users better than most other software I've used, it can still be laggy at time, and they way you can view the users' monitors is very limited.

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Glen K.  
Quality Assurance  
Railroad Manufacture  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Our organization uses this for allowing quick access to needed software"

March 24, 2018

4.0

Pros

This allows for easy setup of new computers. We have a fairly high turnover rate so we are constantly setting up new users.

Cons

It doesn't seem to be integrated into our approval process. If I need software that requires "approval" it seems to be clunky. I click the "requires approval" and days go by before it's approved.

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SJ

Sunil J.  
Director  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "System Center is a great product that covers multiple capabilities"

May 17, 2017

4.0

Pros

The software characteristics that make System Center very effective are: Powerful, Dynamic, Eloborate

Cons

The software characteristics that make System Center less effective are: Complex, High ramp up time

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Registered Nurse  
Hospital & Health Care  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Excellent system center!"

April 11, 2019

2.0

Pros

I've only been utilizing this tool for a short period of time but really love how thorough and organized it is, great for software management. Have yet to use it to its full potential.

Cons

Like anything Microsoft, its expensive which is my only complaint

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