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Lyon
Apr 17, 2003
SCCM is pretty awesome, I've also played around with Altiris and LANDesk. I don't actually manage any of these things but SCCM seems like it can do pretty much everything most people will need unless you've got a really massive widespread network to take care of.

I actually work for a "cloud" IT company (thinking about killing myself) that would be a competitor to all of these products but at one point we tested out all of the above and some other small players to see what we could take from them.

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Lyon
Apr 17, 2003

Trinitrotoluene posted:

Does anyone have any good recommendations or suggestions for mass administration over a hundred seperate domains on completely seperate networks?

SCCM is awesome and I actually used to deal with SMS when I worked for EDS, unfortunately it's not a valid possibility or at a cost that is suitable for our clients (say 100 small businesses). Plus the administration on each domain would take forever.

WSUS we currently keep the configuration on one central machine and push it to all domain servers so patch management isn't too much of an issue.

Keeping things like Firefox/Adobe Reader/Flash Player up to date though is an absolute nightmare so any suggestions would be more than welcome.

Any suggestions to better admin so many domains would be welcome also.

Dyscrasia posted:

I would love a better way to go about this too. I have just been doing GPO push installs for Reader, Flash and Java.


Misogynist posted:

There's a huge number of multi-tenant management products out there for managed service providers. Kaseya, N-Able, Level Platforms and ManageEngine are the most popular that I'm aware of, though I haven't used any personally, being a Linux admin that does not work for an MSP.

I'm just going to put in a quick plug for MaaS360 by Fiberlink. It's a "cloud-based" laptop, desktop, and Blackberry management solution.

No infrastructure or CapEx and it handles patching/updating (OS, 3rd party apps, and AV), hardware and software inventories, security policy enforcement/auto remediation, compliance reporting (AV, FW, DE, DLP, Malware), connection reporting (type, length, data in/out, VPN reporting), etc. It does all of this over any IP connection, so no need to even have the users on the LAN or VPN.

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