We performed a comparison between Apache Guacamole and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TeamViewer, Microsoft, Citrix and others in Remote Access."I'm using Apache Guacamole as a gateway."
"The most valuable feature is the remote application access."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The solution offers good value for money."
"It's almost an out of the box function once you have installed the other components."
"The solution performs well and is easy to use."
"The solution is user-friendly and has a good user experience."
"The performance meets our requirements and the stability is good."
"The tool shares computer resources perfectly."
"The solution's USB redirection could be improved."
"Microsoft should be more compatible with other operating system."
"We'd like them to continue to improve on security."
"Sometimes difficult to set up without the requirement for login credentials each time."
"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."
"There are problems with using Microsoft Teams within a virtual desktop on a mobile device."
"For Microsoft, maybe bandwidth optimization is one of the areas that need improvement."
"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."
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Apache Guacamole is ranked 20th in Remote Access with 1 review while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 reviews. Apache Guacamole is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apache Guacamole writes "A stable and open-source solution that can be used as a gateway". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services writes "Easy to set up and reliable, but needs an additional control panel". Apache Guacamole is most compared with VNC Connect, Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access and F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and VMware Horizon Cloud.
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