We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN 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."This platform has developed a reliable communication infrastructure that employees can use to communicate with remote workers."
"Among its most valuable features is how it quickly and easily connects everyone to the VPN service."
"We have more control over the activity that users have on the internal network, thanks to the monitoring offered by Check Point and the security provided by the gateway."
"Access is browser-based only and requires no additional client installation."
"Organizations that already use the Check Point NGFW Solution do not require any additional hardware, which makes the implementation straightforward and reduces the time to go live."
"The clients of the customers have a facility to access the enterprise network."
"Check Point has been perfect for protecting us from any type of attack or data theft during remote management."
"I like the fact that Remote Access allows the administrator to control and manage things. It makes things smoother, and it has been an excellent experience."
"It's part of the Microsoft Operating system and is free."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is scalable."
"The most valuable features are it is fast and cost-effective."
"It works fine, and it is largely issue-free."
"The most valuable feature is performance."
"The solution is now stable."
"In terms of the valuable features, I like the profile, the new version is really good."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"For Linux machines, they don't have a full client to install. For the users that utilize Linux, there needs to be an equivalent."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN's enterprise support could be improved."
"The interface itself needs improvement. When you need to create something, you have to go through a lot of steps. It needs to be simplified."
"Without a doubt and with the new trends in technology, Check Point should already have a blade with a 2MFA solution and not through some other vendor."
"The ability to allow split-tunneling while still following our corporate policy needs to be on the table."
"I cannot see the full effect of the endpoint solution because it relies on having access to the DNF queries, which might not go through the Check Point firewall when you're using it for perimeter networks. Check Point will not identify the actual source of the net queries. This may be related to the architecture, however, and not poor product issues. I don't know if it can be improved on the Check Point side or not."
"They need to increase their timeout. Right now, it will fail after ten seconds, however, it shouldn't fail until after 20 seconds."
"In the case of URL translation of the VPN Web portal, the requests made from the front end to the back end weren't valid (due to the use of dynamic subdomains). In the case of host translations, the request was made to the same host, however, we cannot specify the ports, which, in our case, are used to redirect to different servers."
"The administrative functionality is not enough for me."
"I would like to be able to leverage it on other operating systems."
"It could offer better security for enterprises."
"Updates sometimes impact the application and we have system crashes."
"We had some instability during the implementation process. This has since been resolved."
"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."
"Lacks a notification feature when internet is down."
"I would like to be able to access the remote desktop using a web-based interface, rather than having to use the client."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 5th in Remote Access with 61 reviews while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point Remote Access VPN writes "Is easy to use and has a nice interface, but the scalability needs to improve". 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". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Check Point Harmony Mobile, Fortinet FortiClient and F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services report.
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