Tag: UTCM

Since the release of the preview version of the UTCM solution, some have asked if UTCM will replace the Maester tool. The answer is no. The tools are complementary and both are very useful to Microsoft 365 tenant management. Maester is a community-driven reporting tool that highlights inconsistencies between external and Microsoft baselines. UTCM focuses on setting drift that can occur in workload configurations. Both have their own niche.

Unified Tenant Configuration Management (UTCM) is a new tenant configuration management solution that can monitor changes to over 300 resource types found within Microsoft 365 tenants. Currently accessible via Microsoft Graph beta APIs to all tenants, UTCM offers an alternative to Microsoft DSC and third-party configuration management products. No details are available yet about an admin UX, licensing, or availability.