Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops vs Microsoft Remote Desktop Services
We performed a comparison between Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Many PeerSpot users use Microsoft Remote Desktop Services as it is already embedded into their Microsoft operating systems (at no additional cost) and can scale on demand. The PeerSpot users that work outside of the Microsoft universe choose Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops due to its excellent virtualization capabilities and that it is a mature, reliable solution.
"It is user-friendly and easy to use."
"You can connect to any printer, and from anywhere you can print documents using a compressed channel. It is easy and the bandwidth is very low."
"The architecture I built had a robust failover mechanism for the endpoints, and the interface was user-friendly."
"The remote desktop feature allows employees to work from home."
"My focus has primarily been on publishing virtual applications."
"XenDesktop has helped our users to work remotely with a better user experience."
"It has the best remote working features."
"The most valuable feature is how secure the solution is."
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"The solution has very smooth connectivity and is very user friendly."
"Everything is really good and it works well."
"Since the tool has a graphical user interface, it's easier for us to access the server."
"In terms of the valuable features, I like the profile, the new version is really good."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is highly stable."
"I've had good experiences with Microsoft customer support."
"Installing Microsoft Desktop Services is straightforward."
"It's almost an out of the box function once you have installed the other components."
"There is room for improvement on the hypervisor side, providing better integration between the hypervisor and the product line. I suspect that they haven't put the work into that because of the move to the cloud. They want everything to be cloud-hosted. But for folks like us, who will always be a hybrid model, that's of some concern."
"Dependency on server virtualization after v7.x is an issue which I encountered in small environments."
"My only issue with Citrix is that they frequently rebrand their products. I'm using the app and everything is fine but after a couple of years, it's entirely different. There were an enormous number of Citrix tools readily available. My immediate concern was selecting the correct ones."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Pricing can be lower and roaming profiles need to be fixed to work consistently."
"The product advances really fast. For some customers, we need better backwards compatibility."
"The product should expand its capabilities for integrating with other environments."
"Where improvement could be driven is in terms of clarity as to the functionality of some of the solutions. If you go back to the older Citrix Xen products that we had, we understood those really well. As we've come into the new workstation premium suite, there is a lot of additional functionality that we perhaps have not yet fully exploited. It is not because we can't, but simply because we don't yet understand the depth of functionality that's offered."
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"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"We had some instability during the implementation process. This has since been resolved."
"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."
"Users have to re-enter their ID and password every time they log on, which is tedious and repetitive."
"The pricing could be better."
"There are times I get disconnected from the service and when one or two attempts to establish a remote connection. Microsoft should show where the problem is, I have to find it by myself."
"Lacks a notification feature when internet is down."
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Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is ranked 3rd in Remote Access with 90 reviews while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 75 reviews. Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) writes "Flexible Deployment, reliable performance, and fast transmission speeds". 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". Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) is most compared with VMware Horizon View, Citrix Workspace, Amazon Appstream, Amazon WorkSpaces and Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS), whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and Splashtop Remote Support. See our Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) vs. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services report.
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