Editing Microsoft Configuration Manager (section)

== Product branding and naming ==
Microsoft Configuration Management has gone through two brand changes. Both resulted in reducing confusion with other initialism as well as including the software in a Microsoft systems management portfolio.
In 2007, System Management Service (SMS) became System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). This helped avoid confusion with the [[Short Message Service]] (SMS) initialism and added the product, along with other system management tools, under a unified System Center brand.
In 2019 Configuration Manager moved to the [[Microsoft Endpoint Manager]] suite<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/understand/what-happened-to-sccm|title = What happened to System Center Configuration Manager?|date = 17 September 2021}}</ref> to better align it with [[Microsoft Intune]] and related endpoint management products.  This change also helped reduce confusion of the oft-used initialism SCCM that is common in other industries such as The [[Society of Critical Care Medicine]] (SCCM).  In 2023 the term "endpoint" was removed to rename the product to Microsoft Configuration Manager.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-04-11 |title=Update 2303 for Microsoft Configuration Manager current branch is now available. |url=https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/configuration-manager-blog/update-2303-for-microsoft-configuration-manager-current-branch/ba-p/3784175 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM |language=en}}</ref>

Throughout the life of the product, many acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations have been used to refer to the software including
* SMS
* SCCM
* CM
* MECM
* MEMCM
* MCM<ref>{{Cite web |last=janicericketts |title=Der Weg in die Cloud: Bestimmen des aktuellen Stands der Cloudtransformation bei der Umstellung der Identitäts- und Zugriffsverwaltung (Identity and Access Management, IAM) von Active Directory auf Azure AD - Microsoft Entra |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/road-to-the-cloud-posture |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=learn.microsoft.com |language=de-de}}</ref>
* ConfigMgr
* Config Man

However, Microsoft has stated and documented that the official name is one of the following<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/understand/microsoft-endpoint-manager-faq#how-do-we-refer-to-the-product-now-|title = Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager FAQ - How do we refer to the product now?|date = 16 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/memdocs/issues/1099 | title = Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager FAQ - Issue 1099| website = [[GitHub]]|date = 16 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/memdocs/issues/2172 | title = Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager FAQ - Issue 2172| website = [[GitHub]]|date = 16 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=SCCM is not the Official Acronym for Configuration Manager 2007|url=http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgr/archive/2008/06/01/sccm-is-not-the-official-acronym-for-configuration-manager.aspx|work=Microsoft IT ConfigMgr 2007 Blog|publisher=Microsoft |access-date=11 February 2016}}</ref>
* Microsoft Configuration Manager
* Configuration Manager
* ConfigMgr