We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware Horizon Air based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution performs well and is easy to use."
"The solution offers good value for money."
"The solution has very smooth connectivity and is very user friendly."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is highly stable."
"It's almost an out of the box function once you have installed the other components."
"The installation is straightforward."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is stable and reliable."
"Everything is really good and it works well."
"The solution is good for providing dedicated resources for dedicated users."
"The solution has proven to be very stable."
"We'd like them to continue to improve on security."
"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."
"We are searching for a product with better remote access and remote sessions."
"There are problems with using Microsoft Teams within a virtual desktop on a mobile device."
"Its look and feel could be updated. In Azure Remote Desktop Services (RDS), which is a VDI solution, we would like to see linked clones. It is a Hyper-V solution, and it doesn't support linked clones and uses a lot of storage. That's why we don't use it. VMware has a similar solution that supports linked clones for the master image."
"The performance depends on connectivity."
"The price is too high."
"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."
"It's a costly product. It would help if they could offer it at a discount."
"We have experienced some connectivity issues."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 76 reviews while VMware Horizon Air is ranked 27th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while VMware Horizon Air is rated 8.6. 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 VMware Horizon Air writes "VMware Horizon Air vs. Citrix Workspace Cloud". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access, whereas VMware Horizon Air is most compared with VMware Horizon View and VMware Workspace ONE. See our Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. VMware Horizon Air report.
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