We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS), and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and others in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)."The initial setup is not that difficult. I have gone through the RDS initialization steps, which only seem easy."
"Good screen draw feature and ability to use two monitors."
"The solution is now stable."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The most valuable features are availability and security."
"You can scale the product."
"The solution is really fast."
"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 the ease with which you can publish applications to different groups of users, by integrating with Windows Active Directory."
"Valuable features include the ability to set up security groups for accessing certain apps, and the ability to add apps easily and centrally without touching the servers they’re hosted on."
"Its price and ease of use are the most valuable. It is simple and has good performance."
"Allows us to publish applications accessible by current-generation HTML5 browser or OS-specific client (Windows, Android, iOS), and it supports popular single sign-on and multi-factor authentication protocols."
"You have the opportunity to virtualize applications in different locations. Everything is in one pane or one window, which is quite good."
"We use RAS to publish cloud desktops to our clients. The ability to easily publish resources to a subset of users is what we find most valuable."
"Ease of use in publishing apps and installing the agent. The Interface is fairly intuitive after some tinkering. Although I inherited the app only two-thirds deployed, I was able to complete the deployment and service it over the last year without referring to any documentation."
"The connection is compressed so we don't need a lot of resources to run it."
"The most valuable features are automated deployment and transparent movement for virtual machines over all our locations."
"The improvement to our organization is managing all our KVM-based virtual machines in a management environment."
"The only issue I experienced was with the initialization of the session, which affected the stability of the solution."
"Sometimes, the updates break the system."
"Security in the connection between us and our clients' servers is something that can be improved."
"The product is not very scalable."
"Users have to re-enter their ID and password every time they log on, which is tedious and repetitive."
"It could be made simpler from a management perspective."
"There have been some network issues in the solution. So, when we used to connect it, the solution suddenly got disconnected. So the network part needs to be improved."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is only available for the professional version of the Windows operating system. This restricts a lot of users. The feature should be available for all versions."
"The product does not utilize SQL for reporting purposes. Also, it does not support some hypervisors similar to Citrix. These particular areas need improvement."
"Improvement is needed in performance monitoring of the client's endpoint, and automatic re-connection of the client in the event of circuit disruptions (this works well generally but can present challenges)."
"If the solution crashes, then all the customers connected through that agent, lose their session."
"It needs Windows scaling on Android/iOS devices. At present, the concept of delivering apps to Android and iOS devices is appealing, but the reality is the screen size on these devices is so small that, unless there is some scaling option, it is not really usable."
"We would like the ability to provide a popup message, such as a maintenance notification. That same notification on the Parallels client would be awesome."
"Opening a ticket should be available from the actual RAS console. It is cumbersome to go to a portal, hunt around for five minutes for a link to open a ticket, answer questions meant to direct you towards FAQs instead of live support, then fill out information (license #, version #, etc.) which could more easily be supplied by sending a ticket straight from the console with all of that information automatically specified."
"The main issue we have with all of our users is printing. Randomly, a printer will disconnect or someone won't connect to it and I will have to reset the print service and then nobody can print. That's the big headache we've had over the course of the five years."
"From a seller's point of view, there are a lot of things that they could do better in the sales cycle."
"The best improvement for oVirt 4.2 is to enable backup features for major backup products of virtual machines."
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