IBM Endpoint Manager / BigFix Versus System Center Configuration Manager

Hi All,
My organization's security team (which I'm not on) has been tasked with researching patching solutions for our environment which includes mostly Windows workstations but a good amount of Linux systems as well. Total amount of workstations covered
is approximately 13,000 spread across about five main sites.
We've been using SMS 2003 / SCCM 2007 for over a decade but unfortunately the out-of-the-box Linux support in the patching arena remains to be relatively limited even in the most recent versions of SCCM. We've also had SCCM client health
issues which has hindered the deployment of some patches and/or patching status reporting. Recently, we've written a few scripts to help with the client health issues but the Linux support issue still remain.
The current proposal, which I'm reviewing, is to move all Linux and Windows patching over to use the IBM Endpoint Manager (BigFix) product. To this end, I've got a few questions to throw out there for general feedback.
1) Has anyone had any real-life positive or negative experiences with IBM Endpoint Manager they'd like to share, especially in relation to the patching component?
2) Has anyone had any real-life positive or negative experiences with using SCCM + another plugin product for SCCM that they'd be willing to share?
3) Has anyone attempted to integrate BigFix patch deployment into SCCM OSD deployment and/or have thoughts on how to prevent SCCM mandatory deployments from interfering with BigFix activity.
Any feedback is appreciated, thanks!

Yes, I know this is an old post, but I’m trying to clean them up.
You should post this question in an IBM forum
There are lots of blogs that talk about using CM07 with 3<sup>rd</sup> party patching tools. There is where I would start.
This question should be posted to a Bigfix forum.
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System Center Technical Guru - May 2014
Mr X
Central Management of DSRM password on Domain Controllers using Orchestrator
Ed Price: "The images really carry you through this article. Great execution!"
GO: "Great article. I like your article Mr X! Thanks for your passion!"
Kevin Holman: "Nice to see real world examples of Orchestrator in action solving problems that all customers have. This was very simple, but provides an excellent solution."
W P Chomak
System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 - Customizing E-Mail Notifications
AB: "Easy reading info that can help many"
Ed Price: "Short and sweet. An incredibly valuable topic and needed addition to the Wiki!"
GO: "Clever and well written. Thanks"
Christoffer S
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 - Install applications in a task sequence based on AD-Groups
Ed Price: "Good mix of code, images, and information. Could use more in-depth descriptions. Great article!"
GO: "Clear and simple! Thank you!"
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 - Add Powershell – Active Directory module in Windows PE by
Christoffer S
GO: "This article deserves absolutely a medal."
Ed Price: "Clear and well formatted! Great topic! Check out the comment from Team Fox."
System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 - Capacity Limits for URL Monitoring by
W P Chomak
Kevin Holman: "Very cool, but needs more details on the technical bits, what types of URL's, tools used."
Ed Price: "Basic info, but it's very well executed!"
System Center Operations Manager 2012 - Monitoring the Monitor by
W P Chomak
Kevin Holman: "Excellent option for ensuring SCOM is working as it should. There are several other examples on blogs, and a composite approach is often the best method."
Ed Price: "Great depth on this article and very clear! Please note that in SCOM 2012 R2 we recommend multiple management servers, so the script wouldn't be necessary. Thanks for the contribution!"
GO: "Images are not working, so I'll exclude it."
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Highest Windows AD Schema level supported by System Center 2007 R2

Hi all,
SCCM 2007 R2 has been implemented in a forest with Windows Server 2008 R2.
If the forest is upgraded to Windows Server 2012 R2, is there any issue with SCCM 2007 R2 and any compatibility or support challenges?
Any help would be useful.
Thanks

Should not be any problem, but SCCM 2007 are unsupported since April 2014.
You mean July 8 2014 for main steam support. CM07 is still supported until July 9 2019. ;-)
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&qid=&alpha=Microsoft+System+Center+Configuration+Manager&Filter=FilterNO
Having said the above, I too see no reason why the schema will have problem with Win12R2. Since both CM12 and CM07 have the same schema.
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Yes you are right, sorry for that. Extended support is available until 2019.

System center configruation manger Administrative rights

Hi All,
I am using system center configuration manager 2012 R2 and was working with User rights. I want to give rights on Read-only Analyst group for move devices in different collection. (Add to existing collection) option.
Please help me out for this what rights I need to edit for this.
Thanks
Animesh Shankar.

Hi,
the account will need to have Modify and modify resource rights(if you want to be able ot clear pxe flag for instance), for the collection and the limiting collection as well. So modifying this will allow the user to either modify
all collections, or make the user only read the specific objects in the collection that you add to the limiting scope.
Regards,
Jörgen
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