We performed a comparison between Apache Guacamole and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TeamViewer, Microsoft, Citrix and others in Remote Access."I'm using Apache Guacamole as a gateway."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is managing the remote desktop end user or remote server."
"You can scale the product."
"Microsoft is very reasonable in its approach to cost."
"It's largely stable."
"We have scaled the solution and find this easy to do."
"The solution is stable."
"It's pretty stable."
"The solution's USB redirection could be improved."
"The stability must be improved."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"Lacks a notification feature when internet is down."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by having graphical acceleration."
"We'd like them to continue to improve on security."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by having a better application for managing multiple sessions. There used to be one but they stopped supporting it."
"The stability could be improved."
"In a future release, they could improve by providing more advanced technology and better buffering for if the connection is degraded or lost."
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Apache Guacamole is ranked 20th in Remote Access with 1 review while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 75 reviews. Apache Guacamole is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apache Guacamole writes "A stable and open-source solution that can be used as a gateway". 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". Apache Guacamole is most compared with VNC Connect, Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access, F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) and Check Point Remote Access VPN, whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and VMware Horizon Cloud.
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