My thoughts are that products like SCOM and SCCM are so super massive that lots of organizations have spent years and tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars implementing it in their environment, and would cry bloody murder should a breaking change be introduced to their babies.
If you look at what Microsoft is doing with OMS and InTune it seems pretty obvious that a lot of simplification and new engineering is taking place in those realms, rather than tweaking our existing beloved SCOM and SCCM products. I think we'll continue to see minor releases to SCOM and SCCM like we're seeing here and that is pretty much going to be it as far as what we'll see out of Redmond for these management tools. New engineering, new features, new UI's? I'd look to Azure services for that, as that's the one outlet Microsoft has today for forging new ground where they can do so and not have to slowly trickle features and changes out due to enterprise slowness. So...get used to it. What we see is probably the face of what SCCM and SCOM will forever be, minus some small tweaks here and there. The writings actually on the wall too for this Windows 10 upgrade. Never has an OS change been as simple as this one, and its looking like in a lot of cases you could just roll from Windows 7 to 10 and it will 'just work', even maintaining all or nearly all of your apps in the process. Some of the lumbering slowness and impenetrable learning curves are going to disappear too, and if you're like me and have been making a living off of deploying these difficult, super complicated solutions, it's probably time to ask yourself where do you think they stand today, and where are they going in the future. What do you see yourself doing in five years? I'm fully expecting a future version of Intune to bundle in OSD and those last few bits of SCCM funcationaliy and then suddenly a lot of what make SCCM unique will be gone, and all we're left with is asking ourselves if we were picking a solution today, which one is easier to implement and support and makes the most sense for our world. #EndRant On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Robert Spinelli <[email protected]> wrote: > So I installed SCCM 2016, played around with it and can say I’ve never > been so underwhelmed by a new product release. I understand it’s a > preview, but I can’t see what else they can throw in there that is going to > really make this feel like a new product release. There is nothing super > new about it, it feels like a service pack and that’s it. It seems to me > that since they were releasing a new version of System Center they had to > also release a new version of SCCM, so they just threw something together > to say here you go, we have a new version. This sort of confirms to me MS > is totally focusing on Intune for some reason I still can’t totally figure > out. > > > > What do others think? > > > > Rob > >
