We performed a comparison between Citrix Workspace vs. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Citrix Workspace has the winning edge in this comparison. It has better ratings when it comes to features, ROI, and service and support.
"It is a stable solution."
"The service dash and Workspace Environment Manager service are good features."
"The most valuable feature is connectivity. The remote connection is the reason we are using this solution."
"With this product, everyone can have a similar kind of desktop environment."
"The most valuable feature is the seamless application edition with the low-level network bandwidth because we have between 10 and 15 sites in France with a low level of communication needs. We need to deploy our main application, the ERP system, and we needed an efficient solution to provide a solution to the remote sites, with very small links between the data center and the remote site."
"I can access it from anywhere."
"From my perspective, the most valuable feature is the manageability."
"The basic virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) feature is most valuable. We were lucky to have it in place when the pandemic hit. It is used very heavily now."
"The solution has very smooth connectivity and is very user friendly."
"It's almost an out of the box function once you have installed the other components."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the simple environment."
"The product saves time."
"Everything is really good and it works well."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services are unification, central management, and accessibility."
"The solution performs well and is easy to use."
"We have scaled the solution and find this easy to do."
"It takes time to load."
"I've recently tried to use Citrix on Ubuntu, and I don't know if this is an Ubuntu issue or a vendor issue, but you can't use Citrix right now on Ubuntu 20.04."
"The Citrix Workspace interface could improve. Additionally, if they are able to provide a mobile application"
"Integration with other vendors could be improved."
"If there are connectivity issues, there are stability issues."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"Performance could be better if there was a low latency improvement."
"This solution is resource-intensive, it takes a lot of Bandwidth and a lot of the resources of the server."
"There is a limitation on the number of concurrent users."
"I would say it's expensive as there similar products available for free."
"The product is not very scalable."
"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."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services needs to improve its security."
"We are searching for a product with better remote access and remote sessions."
"The training profiles could be better."
"The solution should have better security."
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Citrix Workspace is ranked 6th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 26 reviews while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 76 reviews. Citrix Workspace is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Citrix Workspace writes "Useful virtual desktop usage from anywhere, simple deployment, and straightforward to maintain". 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 Workspace is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon View, OpenText Exceed TurboX, Nerdio and Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Parallels Access and Apache Guacamole. See our Citrix Workspace vs. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services report.
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