I built a free open-source alternative to Microsoft SCCM

Why I built this Every day as an IT admin I was managing PC deployments, software installs, WiFi certificates, network scans... and every day I thought: "Why do I have to pay thousands for SCCM to do this?" So I built my own alternative. It's called NovaSCM . ## What is NovaSCM? NovaSCM is a self-hosted fleet & deployment manager inspired by Microsoft SCCM — but free, open source, and lightweight. It combines: A WPF desktop console (Windows) A REST API server (Python/Flask) A cross-platform agent (Windows & Linux) ## What it does ### 💿 Zero-touch Windows deployment Generate autounattend.xml and postinstall.ps1 automatically. Copy to USB → boot the PC → go grab a coffee → come back with a fully configured machine. ### 📡 Network scanner Discover all devices by IP, MAC, vendor. One-click RDP and SSH directly from the console. ### 📦 Software deployment Visual workflow editor with multi-step sequences — winget_install , powershell , reboot , registry , file_copy and more. Just like SCCM Tas