I honestly think the answer boils down to what do you intend to do with SCCM? There are plenty of smaller environments who run SCCM and are very happy with it, and a lot of other smaller environments that run it and hate it, because they didn't have a good plan for it going in. SCCM has a lot of different features, you may want to do some reading up on them and see if any of them will be advantageous over the solution you have now, and move from there. From a learning perspective, advancing as a windows sysadmin, learning SCCM is definitely a good use of time. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Katherine M. Moss Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 5:03 AM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Is SCCM good for smaller environments? Hey all, Not dealing necessarily with accessibility at all, but speaking of SCCM, is it good for the smaller environment? I'm curious because right now, the best we've been able to come up with is a combination between WDS, Otter, and WSUS for deployment and orchestration; well, Otter would have been used for Orchestration regardless simply because it's easier than Scorch to set up. My question is, though, does SCCM offer anything in the way of advantages over the cobbled together solution we have? Any reason why I should push SCCM? Resources are lower than we'd like, so right now, we're stuck with what we've got until we can get more (though between the four of us, we do manage to have about seven physical servers between local and offsite resources (though some of them are older and are being phased out.) one of the things that drives me insane with Microsoft software is the amount of Ram one single product takes . That's so far what's keeping us away; others in my group say, why use SCCM when something cobbled together takes less resources and works just as well? _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.hodgsonfamily.org%2Flistinfo%2Fblind-sysadmins&data=02%7C01%7Cryshugar%40microsoft.com%7C00bd911bb8c14082358d08d4cdd50a83%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636359762273004271&sdata=xbT3mwPpxLeZoxjzkJBP9Kt%2Fe8N0pLLyp3MA3If6EJc%3D&reserved=0