We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Parallels Access 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."I give the stability a nine out of ten."
"It's scalable enough for our needs and very reliable."
"We have scaled the solution and find this easy to do."
"It's part of the Microsoft Operating system and is free."
"I've had good experiences with Microsoft customer support."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is the ability to remote into a system that is not on-premises."
"The most valuable features are it is fast and cost-effective."
"We don't have problems with stability. Everything is good."
"It's got a very easy-to-use interface."
"Parallels Access has flexible licensing policies, which is beneficial for customers who have intermittent usage or users who are on and off the system."
"Parallels Access gives me full access and control of the computer, and I can do anything I want remotely."
"It's great that the total deployment can happen completely remotely."
"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."
"The stability must be improved."
"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."
"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."
"There is a limitation on the number of concurrent users."
"We've had issues with security breaches."
"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."
"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."
"One challenge we do notice is that the application is limited to Windows servers only. If a customer has a Linux server, things get complicated. They should open it up a bit to be more compatible with different types of servers."
"The solution may not scale well for enterprises."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing policy. The price point is pretty aggressive."
"They could improve the reporting."
"When you want to transfer a file from your iPad or remote device to the computer, the copy-and-paste feature doesn't always work."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 reviews while Parallels Access is ranked 12th in Remote Access with 5 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while Parallels Access is rated 8.8. 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 Access writes "Allows users to access and operate their computers remotely". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Apache Guacamole, whereas Parallels Access is most compared with TeamViewer, Splashtop Remote Support, VNC Connect, LogMeIn Pro and TeamViewer Tensor. See our Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. Parallels Access report.
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