Microsoft Configuration Manager

Microsoft Configuration Manager (formerly System Center Configuration Manager, SCCM) is an on-premises systems management product in the Microsoft Intune family, used to manage Windows servers, desktops and laptops. Its software updates feature syncs Microsoft Update metadata through WSUS, deploys updates manually or through automatic deployment rules, and can publish third-party updates from vendor catalogs. Internet-based clients can be managed through an Azure-hosted cloud management gateway. It runs on Windows and Windows Server. Recorded capabilities include air-gap operation, application patching, automated patch deployment and central management console. Its record also notes local patch repository, operating system patching, patch compliance reporting and phased / ring deployment. It is aimed at Enterprise buyers.

Current Version

2609

Product Page

learn.microsoft.com/…/configmgr

Market

Enterprise

Licence

Paid

Price

Paid · price unknown

Record Created

2026-10-06

Last Updated

2026-10-12

Microsoft is the largest security vendor in this index by installed base, and almost none of that was bought deliberately: Microsoft Defender Antivirus is built into Windows and switched on by default, so it protects any machine whose owner has not installed something else. That changes how its results should be read — it is the baseline every other product in this index is implicitly compared against. The paid products are a different thing from the built-in one. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint adds detection and response, threat and vulnerability management and central policy to the same engine; Microsoft Defender for Business is the smaller-organisation edition; Microsoft Defender XDR correlates signals across endpoints, identity, email and cloud apps; and Microsoft Sentinel is the SIEM above them. Microsoft Defender for Individuals, included with Microsoft 365, is the consumer application. Microsoft enters the public test cycles regularly, and its results are among the most consistently available in this index — useful, because for many readers the real question is not which product is best in the abstract but whether a paid product beats the one already installed. Vendor page →

Website

microsoft.com

Country

🇺🇸United States

Headquarters

🇺🇸Redmond, United States

Year Established

1975

Customers

1.6M organisations

Users

1.4B devices protected

Revenue

$331.8B (2026)