We performed a comparison between Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager 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."By integrating all our connections previously spread across multiple locations, a lot of time has been saved."
"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."
"Setup and installation was simple."
""Inherited" function for credentials - Configure the desired credential at one (top) location, and use the Inherited function on all sub-connections that should use this credential."
"Being able to store my credentials makes connecting a breeze."
"Initial setup was very straightforward."
"RDM has enabled me to do most of my work in one place. This helps me be able to have an RDP session open to a server in one tab and an SSH session open to a VMware host in another."
"Makes me instantly more focused on resolving the issue rather than getting to the issue."
"The solution has very smooth connectivity and is very user friendly."
"Since the tool has a graphical user interface, it's easier for us to access the server."
"The solution is scalable."
"The performance is one of the main features of this solution."
"The initial setup is not that difficult. I have gone through the RDS initialization steps, which only seem easy."
"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."
"The installation of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services was easy."
"It's largely stable."
"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."
"Security roles could be improved, especially by enabling renaming of a role."
"On complex setups, I actually needed to reach out to support to get it working correctly."
"If there was a way to streamline the process, it would make it nice."
"Sometimes when updating, the install window is on top of the prompt to close the application."
"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."
"There are always bugs to squash, beyond that, it is really kind of difficult for new users to discover and use many of the features due to the bewildering array of choices and ways to do things."
"The solution should introduce a chat feature for end users."
"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."
"Updates sometimes impact the application and we have system crashes."
"We'd like them to continue to improve on security."
"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 find the services are not as transparent as we would like for our integration with Citrix."
"I would like to see the hard drives work without locking up and integrate the local drives in the next release."
"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."
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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, VNC Connect and BeyondTrust Remote Support, whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Splashtop Remote Support.
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