My organisationis planning to migrate from the current Radia Packaging and Deployment to SCCM compltely by End of June 2009.

We use Radia for Desktop/Laptop as well as Webserver Deployments.

I am involved with packaging and deployment to Servers which are part of test and which hosts our products.

Can some one help me in identfying a few areas where I am concerned.

-- Is migration Possible ( i know it is) but can we automate something Can we use the Radia packages?

-- We have different components Which we need to run as from different accounts can we achieve this using SCCM.

-- Digital Certificates Installations?

-- Radia stores all the packages in its databases is something similar happens in SCCM.

-- We have been using Radia since long and hence the knowledge of Radia internal is very good with us.

We haven't usem any Microsoft Deployment tools... And hence very comfortable with our inhouse tools Fully automating the Picking of files to packaging to deployment of the required version. Just wanted to know are there any guides available for this.?

Lastly What about packaging?

I am very new to this SCCM tool and Need to have a clear idea of cost benefit before we move to?

Thank you all!!

Prasad

Not sure what kind of help you are going to get here. This forum is for answering questions on Configuration Manager itself, not for how to migrate from a different product to Configuration Manager.

There might be some companies here that have done the move you are inquiring about, or maybe consultants that have knowledge on both, but some of us, such as myself, only know our own product, Configuration Manager.

If you have specific questions on Configuration Manager, feel free to ask them (not in comparison to "Radia does this,how doesConfiguration Manager do the same?" If you ask specific questions on Configuration Manager, I'll do my best to answer for you (as will others).

• Proposed as answer by Garth JonesMVP, Moderator Wednesday, January 04, 2012 4:55 AM
• Marked as answer by Moiz Rassiwala[MSFT]Microsoft employee, Moderator Thursday, February 09, 2012 1:44 AM

Not sure what kind of help you are going to get here. This forum is for answering questions on Configuration Manager itself, not for how to migrate from a different product to Configuration Manager.

There might be some companies here that have done the move you are inquiring about, or maybe consultants that have knowledge on both, but some of us, such as myself, only know our own product, Configuration Manager.

If you have specific questions on Configuration Manager, feel free to ask them (not in comparison to "Radia does this,how doesConfiguration Manager do the same?" If you ask specific questions on Configuration Manager, I'll do my best to answer for you (as will others).

• Proposed as answer by Garth JonesMVP, Moderator Wednesday, January 04, 2012 4:55 AM
• Marked as answer by Moiz Rassiwala[MSFT]Microsoft employee, Moderator Thursday, February 09, 2012 1:44 AM

Not sure what kind of help you are going to get here. This forum is for answering questions on Configuration Manager itself, not for how to migrate from a different product to Configuration Manager.

There might be some companies here that have done the move you are inquiring about, or maybe consultants that have knowledge on both, but some of us, such as myself, only know our own product, Configuration Manager.

If you have specific questions on Configuration Manager, feel free to ask them (not in comparison to "Radia does this,how doesConfiguration Manager do the same?" If you ask specific questions on Configuration Manager, I'll do my best to answer for you (as will others).

• Proposed as answer by Garth JonesMVP, Moderator Wednesday, January 04, 2012 4:55 AM
• Marked as answer by Moiz Rassiwala[MSFT]Microsoft employee, Moderator Thursday, February 09, 2012 1:44 AM

Hi,

Could you please share the product comparison of SCCM vs. RADIA?

what are the advantages and disadvantages

I am currently using Radia cilent 3.1.1 and RCS server 4.X

I think Wally's answer from months ago is still valid: as far as I know, the people who frequent this forum are Configuration Manager users, and we can answer questions regarding "how does ConfigMgr do something". But I for one have never even seen Radia in a demo--so I certainly couldn't answer the comparison questions you may have.

My suggestion: come up with your own criteria of what you expect the product to do for you. OSD? Software Metering? Software Distribution? Reporting? Patch deployment? Custom update deployments? Desired Configuration Managment? Asset/Licensing reporting? Custom reporting on inhouse registry keys? Does forum supportplay a role? Once you know what you want from a solution, rank them, and then check on your own how one product vs. another fits your criteria.

Prasad,

Have you migrated to sccm successfully?

Please share the Approach and Ideas if someone completed the migration successfully.