We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and others in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)."The solution has very smooth connectivity and is very user friendly."
"The initial setup is not that difficult. I have gone through the RDS initialization steps, which only seem easy."
"It's part of the Microsoft Operating system and is free."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Installing Microsoft Desktop Services is straightforward."
"The installation of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services was easy."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"The solution is now stable."
"The most valuable features are automated deployment and transparent movement for virtual machines over all our locations."
"The improvement to our organization is managing all our KVM-based virtual machines in a management environment."
"The training profiles could be better."
"The solution should introduce a chat feature for end users."
"Users have to re-enter their ID and password every time they log on, which is tedious and repetitive."
"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."
"Sometimes the server stops working, and we don’t know why. Occasionally we’ll get a message to the effect of "There is no remote license.""
"We'd like, in the future, if it would work with Linux or Unix-based operating systems or even Mac."
"Updates sometimes impact the application and we have system crashes."
"Remote Desktop Services doesn't scale well."
"The best improvement for oVirt 4.2 is to enable backup features for major backup products of virtual machines."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 69 reviews while Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is ranked 19th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is rated 8.0. 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 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops writes "Manages all our KVM-based virtual machines in a management environment". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Access, whereas Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops is most compared with Oracle VDI, VMware Horizon View and OpenText Exceed TurboX.
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