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 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 services feature is definitely the most valuable, along with the capability to print remotely."
"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 can login to my office computer, go into all of my software, and work from a remote location."
"I can use it for training, which I have done. As a person sits in front of the computer they can watch what I do, or I can watch what they do."
"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."
"Technical support was able to address everything that I asked in a timely, responsible, satisfactory manner."
"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."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is stable and reliable."
"Since the tool has a graphical user interface, it's easier for us to access the server."
"Everything is really good and it works well."
"It's built into the operating system and has a command line interface capability to insert credentials, IDs, a password, et cetera."
"The most valuable feature is that it gives me full accessibility to my servers."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is managing the remote desktop end user or remote server."
"The most valuable feature is performance."
"The solution has very smooth connectivity and is very user friendly."
"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."
"The high pricing of the product is its only shortcoming that needs improvement."
"As far as the usability of it, I'd like to see if printing could be enabled in the basic version or the medium version. Some of the remote printing isn't available unless you go to the premium versions, and that's disappointing."
"I would enhance the product, so if I had two screens in front of me, it could connect to two computers simultaneously with the program. For example, if I had a computer at location A and a computer at location B and I am sitting at location C, it might be nice for me to be able to be connected to all three of those computers and move data between those three during one session. "
"Remote Access for external and internal customers."
"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."
"It does go down sometimes. You try to login, it tells you the workdesk computer is not available. It does kick you off 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."
"In the past, my company had faced some issues related to the stability of the product. The product's stability can be improved."
"The stability must be improved."
"The pricing could be better."
"We'd like them to continue to improve on security."
"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."
"The performance of Remote Desktop Services could be better."
"I would like to be able to leverage it on other operating systems."
"I would like to see a web-based interface, instead of client installation to refresh the UI through HTML."
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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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