We performed a comparison between Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Remote Access solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."With the integrated VPN providers you are able to link the VPN entry directly to the session or entire folders, so you no longer have to configure the VPN manually on the machine."
"Allows us to configure limited access to resources with the security-based role feature (which we use for trainees and new employees)."
"Integration with a third party credential storage, web login, and VPN are the most usable and useful functions at the moment."
"The ability to have all the connection information in one location saves so much time from trying to manage the same information across different applications."
"By integrating all our connections previously spread across multiple locations, a lot of time has been saved."
"It really helps to have all the data already pre-entered and all I have to do is enter the password."
"It saves a lot of time for all of our IT staff from having to just use the RDP Windows client and reenter each server every time we access a different system."
"Being able to store my credentials makes connecting a breeze."
"The solution performs well and is easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution works well as a remote desktop."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the simple environment."
"It works fine, and it is largely issue-free."
"The most valuable feature is that it gives me full accessibility to my servers."
"The solution is easy to deploy and there are many features available that you can turn on or off depending on your budget."
"The filing system of connections is a little clunky, but is completely functional."
"The only complaint I have heard is there are too many updates. Each time there is an update (the app prompts to upgrade), it can be time consuming, especially when sometimes there are multiple updates per week."
"Sometimes when updating, the install window is on top of the prompt to close the application."
"If there was a way to streamline the process, it would make it nice."
"The RDM client (.NET issue, actually) can stall or lock up while it clears communication threads to the server."
"On complex setups, I actually needed to reach out to support to get it working correctly."
"Sometimes the manual inventory of some entries hangs, and RDM must be closed via task manager."
"Maybe some clipboard functions could be added along with integration of different software."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by having a better application for managing multiple sessions. There used to be one but they stopped supporting it."
"We are searching for a product with better remote access and remote sessions."
"The only problems that you're going to have with the remote desktop are going to be firewall ports, security, and NLA, which is a net network level access control, or TLS transfer layer security or some other SSL-type of security."
"Updates sometimes impact the application and we have system crashes."
"The initial setup of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is not the easiest. You need to have a certain understanding of how Microsoft is provisioning the solution to be able to set it up and use it."
"In a future release, they could improve by providing more advanced technology and better buffering for if the connection is degraded or lost."
"The only issue I experienced was with the initialization of the session, which affected the stability of the solution."
"We had some instability during the implementation process. This has since been resolved."
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Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is ranked 26th in Remote Access while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 reviews. Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is rated 9.8, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager writes "Best remote connection manager you can use today". 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". Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is most compared with TeamViewer, BeyondTrust Remote Support and VNC Connect, whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Splashtop Remote Support. See our Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager vs. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services report.
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