We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS), and VMware Player 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 most valuable feature is ease of use."
"I like the way it can assess our system."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the simple environment."
"The solution works on Microsoft servers."
"It's part of the Microsoft Operating system and is free."
"The solution has very smooth connectivity and is very user friendly."
"I've had good experiences with Microsoft customer support."
"The solution offers good value for money."
"It provides flexible access to Windows applications from many types of devices."
"You have the opportunity to virtualize applications in different locations. Everything is in one pane or one window, which is quite good."
"The stability is ok - once I finished the setup, the system was quite stable."
"We can provision the servers without the need for another third-party solution."
"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."
"It is robust. We have some 75 users using it and it doesn't lag. It's very speedy."
"The management capability from the RAS portal provides greater control than using pure MS inbuilt into RDS capabilities."
"Thin client management (Windows 10 client) provides an easy way to lock down client connection to the remote infrastructure. Policies are very helpful for preconfiguring client behavior. Finally, client management is easy."
"It's really easy to build testing environments with VMware Player."
"The solution's technical support team is excellent."
"VMware Player helps you to virtualize and install Ubuntu or any other operating system, even on a Windows laptop."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Player is the ability to snapshot with or without memory."
"VMware Player's best feature is the ability to run different OS's simultaneously."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"There are problems with using Microsoft Teams within a virtual desktop on a mobile device."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services needs to improve its security."
"I would like to see a web-based interface, instead of client installation to refresh the UI through HTML."
"The biggest reason we don't use the solution for our company's clients is the solution's prices."
"There is a limitation on the number of concurrent users."
"The training profiles could be better."
"We are searching for a product with better remote access and remote sessions."
"The product does not utilize SQL for reporting purposes. Also, it does not support some hypervisors similar to Citrix. These particular areas need improvement."
"Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) is an expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."
"From a seller's point of view, there are a lot of things that they could do better in the sales cycle."
"It would be great if there were more sophisticated GPO templates/options."
"If the solution crashes, then all the customers connected through that agent, lose their session."
"We have had significant, ongoing issues with printing. It would be great to have a best practice for dealing with printing that we can offer to our customers."
"We would like to be able to re-label the OTP (One Time Password) popup so our users can easily recognize that they are to put in their DUO code on that line. Most users see OTP and ask what that is."
"Sometimes you need to understand how to use load balancing and the gateway in order to scale, which means the team may need some additional technical knowledge."
"VMware Player should provide a cloud version with no limitations to hardware resources."
"VMware Player isn't downgradable, so if you have a later set of VMs, you need to upgrade it or figure out a workaround."
"The tool has limited scalability."
"When you go to work on a server, it opens up the whole window, and that causes an error inside VMware Player."
"Its networking features need improvement."
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