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Ditch SCCM. Move to 100% Intune. Start Saving

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By James White, Digital Workplace Practice Lead at Prosource.it.

For more than three decades, companies around the world have relied on Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), now known as Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, to manage their fleets of Windows computers. SCCM has been embedded in around 80% of large companies – providing patch management, compliance, software distribution, OS deployment, reboot management, inventory and reporting.

SCCM customisation creates complexity

Over time, SCCM evolved into a sprawling, on-premise system often with many servers hosting roles such as distribution points, management points, SQL, etc. - all requiring specialist teams to keep them running. For global enterprises, managing SCCM will mean maintaining hundreds of SCCM servers – each needing their own licensing, storage, security with back up and disaster recovery plans, etc.

One of SCCM’s greatest strengths was its flexibility. Companies were able to integrate custom solutions with SCCM, but over time that flexibility has become a double-edged sword. Customisation adds layers of complexity, making the transition from SCCM often particularly difficult. Over time, SCCM evolved into a vast, expensive and unwieldy behemoth.

Why move to Intune?

Intune, Microsoft’s successor to SCCM, has now matured into a true cloud-first management platform, ready for use for large companies.

It offers:

Zero infrastructure, reducing all associated costs and complexity
Anywhere management, via the cloud
Automatically maintained as a true SaaS
Scalability that fits both small organisations and global enterprises.

When thinking about migrating to Intune, many do not know where to start. SCCM is woven into reporting systems, compliance frameworks and app deployment processes.

But sticking with SCCM comes with burdens:

High infrastructure cost across servers, storage, and licensing.
Dedicated specialist teams whose skills are increasingly tied to legacy systems.
Ongoing risk maintaining a complex, fragile environment.

Moving fully to Intune will reduce costs, simplify operations and offer scalability.

Proof that it can be done

At prosource.it, we completed one of the industry’s first full-scale transitions from SCCM to Intune for a global enterprise.

We turned off over 150 SCCM servers and moved them to 100% cloud-native Intune.

Before and After Image Youtube Thumbnail 2 — We helped saved this global enterprise around $700,000 per year client on server hosting, hardware, resourcing and licensing.

This wasn’t without challenges. The migration required a carefully planned, phased transition. But with the right expertise and a willingness to tackle complexity head-on, it is achievable with no outages, no disruption and no impact on end users.

There’s getting people onto Intune, and then there’s getting people off SCCM entirely with zero disruption to the business. We’ve done the latter.

Shaping the future

We are a member of Microsoft’s Management Customer Connection Programme – one of only a handful of people who provide real-world feedback that directly shapes Intune. That collaboration helps the platform continue to evolve in line with the needs of real businesses.

Time to make the move to Intune?

The sun is slowly setting on SCCM. While many companies delay the move because of the complexity of the tasks, the costs add up year after year, continually until you jump ship from SCCM to Intune.