# Editions

## Overview

We offer two different SCEPman editions:

* Enterprise Edition
* Community Edition

Both editions use the same codebase and binaries. A Community Edition can be converted to an Enterprise Edition just by inserting a SCEPman license key (and maybe doing some additional config work).

## Enterprise Edition (SCEPman EE)

SCEPman EE comes with all features and is supported by our team. We charge a subscription fee for SCEPman EE.

We recommend SCEPman EE for:

* Productive environments
* Scalability and performance
* Enterprise feature set

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[licensing](https://docs.scepman.com/other/licensing)
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## Community Edition (SCEPman CE)

SCEPman CE misses some features of SCEPman EE and is not supported by our team. SCEPman CE is free of charge.

We recommend SCEPman CE for:

* Lab environments
* Small businesses
* Easy testing of SCEPman

If you want to test SCEPman in your own environment, you can follow the **mandatory** steps in our [Standard Guide](https://docs.scepman.com/scepman-deployment/deployment-guides/community-guide) and install SCEPman directly into your lab. If you later decide to purchase SCEPman EE, you should review our Getting Started guide [decision matrix](https://docs.scepman.com/scepman-deployment/deployment-guides#decision-matrix) and revisit all **recommended** and **optional** steps.

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If your organization has Azure resource naming conventions in place and you intend to re-use the Community Edition deployment after a successful trial, please directly start with our [Extended Guide](https://docs.scepman.com/scepman-deployment/deployment-guides/enterprise-guide-1) (**mandatory** steps only). For the basic steps, no license key is required.
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## Edition Comparison

The following table shows the most important differences between the two editions:

| SCEPman Feature                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |           Community Edition           |             Enterprise Edition             |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :-----------------------------------: | :----------------------------------------: |
| <p><strong>Machine certificates</strong> for Intune- or Jamf Pro-managed devices<br>(Windows 11, MacOS, Android, iOS)</p>                                                                                                                            | <mark style="color:green;">yes</mark> |    <mark style="color:green;">yes</mark>   |
| <p><strong>User certificates</strong> on Intune- or Jamf Pro-managed devices<br>(Windows 11, MacOS, Android, iOS)</p>                                                                                                                                | <mark style="color:green;">yes</mark> |    <mark style="color:green;">yes</mark>   |
| **Machine** and **user certificats** for [Active Directory / GPO](https://docs.scepman.com/certificate-management/active-directory) managed (domain-joined) devices (Windows 10/11)                                                                  |   <mark style="color:red;">no</mark>  |    <mark style="color:green;">yes</mark>   |
| <p><a href="certificate-management/certificate-master">Certificate management</a>, manually issue & revoke certificates,<br>e.g. for web servers</p>                                                                                                 |   <mark style="color:red;">no</mark>  |    <mark style="color:green;">yes</mark>   |
| <p><a href="certificate-management/domain-controller-certificates">Kerberos authentication <strong>certificates for DCs</strong></a></p><p>(Access on-prem ressources and use<br>Windows Hello for Business with Entra ID/Hybrid-joined devices)</p> |   <mark style="color:red;">no</mark>  |    <mark style="color:green;">yes</mark>   |
| Certificates for other MDM-systems [**with Entra ID validation**](https://docs.scepman.com/scepman-configuration/application-settings/scep-endpoints/staticaad-validation).                                                                          |   <mark style="color:red;">no</mark>  |    <mark style="color:green;">yes</mark>   |
| [Redundancy](https://docs.scepman.com/azure-configuration/geo-redundancy)                                                                                                                                                                            |   <mark style="color:red;">no</mark>  |    <mark style="color:green;">yes</mark>   |
| [SCEPman as intermediate CA](https://docs.scepman.com/scepman-deployment/intermediate-certificate)                                                                                                                                                   |   <mark style="color:red;">no</mark>  |    <mark style="color:green;">yes</mark>   |
| [Device Compliance Check](https://docs.scepman.com/scepman-configuration/application-settings/scep-endpoints/intune-validation#appconfig-intunevalidation-compliancecheck)                                                                           |   <mark style="color:red;">no</mark>  |    <mark style="color:green;">yes</mark>   |
| Support                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |   <mark style="color:red;">no</mark>  | <mark style="color:green;">included</mark> |
| Fee                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |                  free                 |              subscription-fee              |