This episode continues our series on comparing popular patching solutions, such as:

• Ninite
• ManageEngine
• Ivanti
• PDQ

Ninite

This week I focused on Ninite, and here’s the TLDR version:

Pros

• Does one thing (third party patching) and does it really well

• Extremely affordable

• User interface is clean, simple and really easy to use/learn

Cons

• No "agentless" option – it’s an agent or nothin’

• I’m not sure if Ninite has the brand name recognition and reputation to be accepted/respected by large companies

• I need to do more homework on how they pull down their packages…are they ripping apart packages and repackaging them at all? That could be a big avenue for side-loading icky stuff.

Patching solutions bake-off gist:

(This will be continually updated as I evaluate the various solutions)