We performed a comparison between LogMeIn Pro 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."I can connect to them remotely and do all the functions I would have to do by manually driving to them, so it does make things a lot easier."
"It's even simple to remotely add a computer to our group. We can send a link to that computer and they just follow the prompts on the screen and they are ready to go - we can access it. It's very user-friendly."
"I would tell others who are looking into this solution that I feel that it's a secure solution. I never had any issues with its security element. I think that it's very simple to use. I think it is user-friendly, and you can work between computers pretty well on it."
"The remote connection is the most valuable, but we also use it for file transfer, that would be probably the second most valuable. The remote connection is a major time saver, it saves us from having to drive to each location."
"It's the only product I need to be able to get to my office Outlook, to get my emails off that particular computer. Going the other way, sometimes I'll go to my home computer to do adjustments to my accounting system there."
"Technical support was able to address everything that I asked in a timely, responsible, satisfactory manner."
"The ability to easily connect back and retrieve data from the computer systems that I have."
"The remote services feature is definitely the most valuable, along with the capability to print remotely."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"It's scalable enough for our needs and very reliable."
"The solution is user-friendly and has a good user experience."
"The solution is stable."
"What I found most valuable in Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is accessibility because the solution lets you take control of your computer remotely."
"It's pretty stable."
"The solution is now stable."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"It's never cheap enough. If we got it for free, that would be perfect. But I know it's not and won't be free. It's always going to be too expensive for me because we're a small company."
"The user interface needs improvement. Mostly, it's pretty intuitive for what I need to do, but the extra elements to it seem very complex, so I don't really try to even use those. For example, document sharing, file stuff. I can do the log-in part, but the additional features are kind of complex."
"Maybe they can come up with a plan if you only use it for login and, occasionally, printing. Maybe you can charge what you used to charge and then if we want to use it for files or things that are more sophisticated, charge a little more."
"Everything has to be done over the web, via email, or something like that. You can't talk to a human being. That bothers me a lot."
"Unfortunately, LogMeIn is a long ways from being perfect. It has a lot of really great features, though they don't always work well."
"With Windows 10 we've had some issues with it crashing, and certain antivirus products cause it to fail. For the most part it's stable, but we do have an occasional crash mainly related to new operating systems. The new Microsoft Server and the new Windows operating systems sometimes have issues with it. But for the most part, in anything under, say, Windows 7, Windows 8, those seem to be pretty stable, and with the Microsoft Server 2012 and below, it's all stable. And I don't necessarily think it's LogMeIn. I think it may be Microsoft, to be honest with you."
"It would be helpful if there were more things that you could do outside of having to log into the machine, such as being able to raise a command line and reboot the computer if, for whatever reason, it doesn't want to let me in."
"The only issue is that they could have a tier between 10 seats and 50."
"I would say it's expensive as there similar products available for free."
"We face frequent disconnections."
"Sometimes difficult to set up without the requirement for login credentials each time."
"I would like to see the hard drives work without locking up and integrate the local drives in the next release."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"Microsoft still has some really bad remote desktop appliance for Mac."
"Remote Desktop Services doesn't scale well."
"We encounter challenges with portability, especially for users of iOS devices."
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LogMeIn Pro is ranked 14th in Remote Access with 20 reviews while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 reviews. LogMeIn Pro is rated 9.0, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of LogMeIn Pro writes "Good remote services feature and easy to setup". 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". LogMeIn Pro is most compared with LogMeIn Rescue, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, LogMeIn Central, BeyondTrust Remote Support and Dameware Remote Support, whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access. See our LogMeIn Pro vs. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services report.
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