Hello Everyone,
Do any of you have both of these products deployed in your enterprise? IF so,have integrated the two backend SQL databases for reporting purposes?
Unfortuntely, SMS 2003 does not have a single Macintosh plug-in tool from a third party vendor to work with SMS 2003. Although there is a Inventory Solution for the Macintosh by Alitiris, where inventory is forwarded to the SMS site database, it is only compatible at this time with SMS 2.0. Plus, this solution by Altiris does not support any software distribution, thus rulling out this possible option.
As a result, I'm looking to LANdesk 8.0 to manage the Macintosh platform but now the question comes into play, why do we need SMS 2003 if LANDesk 8.0 does the entire enterprise. I am looking for a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages between the two products.
I look forward to any comments or feedback that you could provide.
Thanks,
Matt
Do any of you have both of these products deployed in your enterprise? IF so,have integrated the two backend SQL databases for reporting purposes?
Unfortuntely, SMS 2003 does not have a single Macintosh plug-in tool from a third party vendor to work with SMS 2003. Although there is a Inventory Solution for the Macintosh by Alitiris, where inventory is forwarded to the SMS site database, it is only compatible at this time with SMS 2.0. Plus, this solution by Altiris does not support any software distribution, thus rulling out this possible option.
As a result, I'm looking to LANdesk 8.0 to manage the Macintosh platform but now the question comes into play, why do we need SMS 2003 if LANDesk 8.0 does the entire enterprise. I am looking for a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages between the two products.
I look forward to any comments or feedback that you could provide.
Thanks,
Matt
