We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Parallels Access 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."The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"I like the way it can assess our system."
"It's part of the Microsoft Operating system and is free."
"The performance meets our requirements and the stability is good."
"The initial setup is not that difficult. I have gone through the RDS initialization steps, which only seem easy."
"The solution has very smooth connectivity and is very user friendly."
"It works fine, and it is largely issue-free."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is highly stable."
"It's got a very easy-to-use interface."
"We don't have problems with stability. Everything is good."
"It's great that the total deployment can happen completely remotely."
"Parallels Access has flexible licensing policies, which is beneficial for customers who have intermittent usage or users who are on and off the system."
"Parallels Access gives me full access and control of the computer, and I can do anything I want remotely."
"The product is not very scalable."
"It could be made simpler from a management perspective."
"In the next release, I would like to see better performance over slower networks, and integration with Linux, but this is something that we're going to get out of Microsoft in terms of a unified solution."
"The administrative functionality is not enough for me."
"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."
"My customers are worried that the RDP protocol can be easily compromised and would like the option to use an alternative like Blast."
"There could be some improvement in the integration of the solution."
"One challenge we do notice is that the application is limited to Windows servers only. If a customer has a Linux server, things get complicated. They should open it up a bit to be more compatible with different types of servers."
"They could improve the reporting."
"When you want to transfer a file from your iPad or remote device to the computer, the copy-and-paste feature doesn't always work."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing policy. The price point is pretty aggressive."
"The solution may not scale well for enterprises."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 reviews while Parallels Access is ranked 12th in Remote Access with 5 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while Parallels Access is rated 8.8. 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 Parallels Access writes "Allows users to access and operate their computers remotely". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Apache Guacamole, whereas Parallels Access is most compared with TeamViewer, Splashtop Remote Support, VNC Connect, LogMeIn Pro and TeamViewer Tensor. See our Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. Parallels Access report.
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