We performed a comparison between Microsoft Intune 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."It has improve our organization through the remote management of non-domain joined devices."
"For Windows services, there are multiple options within Intune to modernize it to be more internet-facing and dynamic."
"For our office workers who are not based in Norway, when we order the PC, we can do some of the settings for them. These are standardized settings. We can set them up exactly as they are in Norway so that they're the same."
"The overall user experience is quite nice. I have no complaints from end users regarding their devices enrolled in Intune."
"The policy and compliance monitoring of devices and the software deployment are most valuable."
"I like that it's very good and very simple. I found that we just needed to have a proper subscription for an Intune tenant, and from the subscription, if we have the right role assigned, like the global admin role or the owner role, we can use Microsoft cloud resources. With the help of that, we can do many things like setting up Microsoft Intune in the cloud to create our virtual machines. All these can be done, and the steps are very simple. I really liked it. I like features like Windows Auto-Enrollment. I like it very much because whenever you supply it to the end-user, it will be ready to use immediately. The end-user only needs to provide the user credentials, and then they are good to go. I also really like Cloud PC, which was recently launched on Azure."
"Its direct integration with all the other products that we have from Microsoft is valuable. We're using the E5 license, and we have a whole wealth of different products available. It just makes it easier to have everything from one provider."
"We are using the mobile feature, and we are also using MDM to lock the devices, to push restrictions, et cetera"
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is highly stable."
"The solution is scalable."
"It's built into the operating system and has a command line interface capability to insert credentials, IDs, a password, et cetera."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"It's simple and easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the desktop session and desktop virtualization."
"The most valuable features are availability and security."
"Things can be made easier if someone is not with us or at a long distance since we can connect easily with those people. So, it's easy for us to use such features."
"Integrating certain group policies can be challenging and may necessitate using on-premises systems to integrate them with Microsoft Intune."
"It's the granularity: 'Is your firewall on? Is BitLocker on?' It's not amazing granularity. But I've looked into other products, like Duo, and they're all similar."
"The synchronization could be improved."
"Lacking in features such as Wi-Fi and network security."
"The add-ons must be integrated into the solution."
"I expect Microsoft Intune to have more features in the cloud because there are two major functionalities that we need to be added. This is software metering and license management. These functionalities, for now, must be on-premise. For this purpose, we have set up a SQL Server and I hope that in near future this option will be in the cloud in Microsoft Intune."
"Additional application deployment options e.g. MSI deployment with more complex parameters or additional side-by-side files, and non-MSI deployment options."
"There are a couple of issues with stability."
"In the past, my company had faced some issues related to the stability of the product. The product's stability can be improved."
"Lacks a notification feature when internet is down."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is only available for the professional version of the Windows operating system. This restricts a lot of users. The feature should be available for all versions."
"We'd like to see more integration with other vendors."
"There have been some network issues in the solution. So, when we used to connect it, the solution suddenly got disconnected. So the network part needs to be improved."
"Sometimes, the updates break the system."
"The biggest reason we don't use the solution for our company's clients is the solution's prices."
"It could be made simpler from a management perspective."
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Microsoft Intune is ranked 4th in Remote Access with 165 reviews while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 reviews. Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Intune writes "We can manage all aspects of our devices from a single console, easy to scale, and quick to deploy". 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". Microsoft Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Entra ID and SOTI MobiControl, whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access. See our Microsoft Intune vs. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services report.
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