We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Parallels Desktop based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product saves time."
"Microsoft is very reasonable in its approach to cost."
"We have scaled the solution and find this easy to do."
"The solution performs well and is easy to use."
"The solution offers good value for money."
"The performance is one of the main features of this solution."
"Everything is really good and it works well."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is the ability to remote into a system that is not on-premises."
"I like how, with Parallels, you can either boot into Mac or Windows to get better control over the resources of the laptops since you're sharing the resources in dual mode."
"Parallels Desktop integrates seamlessly with macOS. It works better than VMware on Apple operating systems."
"It could be made simpler from a management perspective."
"The solution is unsuitable for direct external internet connections. You must set up a VPN and password handling to use it."
"The stability could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see better performance over slower networks, and integration with Linux, but this is something that we're going to get out of Microsoft in terms of a unified solution."
"Sometimes the server stops working, and we don’t know why. Occasionally we’ll get a message to the effect of "There is no remote license.""
"Sometimes difficult to set up without the requirement for login credentials each time."
"Its look and feel could be updated. In Azure Remote Desktop Services (RDS), which is a VDI solution, we would like to see linked clones. It is a Hyper-V solution, and it doesn't support linked clones and uses a lot of storage. That's why we don't use it. VMware has a similar solution that supports linked clones for the master image."
"I would like to see the hard drives work without locking up and integrate the local drives in the next release."
"There may have been some issues with device drivers on my Mac. Similarly, there are some issues with transferring data from Parallels to the Mac."
"The biggest challenge is compatibility between VMware and Parallels because the two systems are incompatible. It can be challenging if you are switching between Windows and Mac. I recommend sticking with one product because there isn't good compatibility between the different products."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 76 reviews while Parallels Desktop is ranked 9th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 2 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while Parallels Desktop is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services writes "Easy to set up and reliable, but needs an additional control panel". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Parallels Desktop writes "A great platform to develop interoperable code on". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access, whereas Parallels Desktop is most compared with VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, NComputing vSpace, NVIDIA GRID and Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS). See our Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. Parallels Desktop report.
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