We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN 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."The ability to create your trigger data domains is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN enables us to access on-premise applications while working from remote locations."
"The VPN hides your IP address and encrypts your online traffic and it essentially ensures that your fingerprints cannot be traced on the Internet."
"The solution has been solid for me for over five years."
"The initial set up is not complex."
"The management of the solution is very simple. It allows for a single view of all the endpoints."
"We can integrate remote access to our branches through Check Point services."
"I like the fact that Remote Access allows the administrator to control and manage things. It makes things smoother, and it has been an excellent experience."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services are unification, central management, and accessibility."
"The most valuable features are availability and security."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is highly stable."
"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."
"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 of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is that it scales well."
"It works fine, and it is largely issue-free."
"The fully-featured security module is only supported on Windows and Mac systems, which means that organizations with Linux will face issues providing secure access."
"Sometimes the application slows down the computing device, and this affects workflows."
"Bug Fixes and enhancement requests should be remediated earlier."
"The Compliance software blade is available only for the Windows operating systems family, so no macOS security checks are implemented and performed."
"We have noted some stability issues."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN handles up to a hundred megabytes for clients, but I want it to be able to handle up to one gigabyte."
"When you want to deploy a new Check Point agent, it is really a pain in the butt. For example, Windows 10 now has updates almost every couple of months. It changes the versioning and things under the hood. These are things that I don't understand, because I'm not a Windows person. However, I know that the Check Point client is installed on the Windows machine, and if the Check Point client's not kept up-to-date, then it's functionality breaks. It has to be up-to-date with the Windows versions. Check Point has to update the client more often. Now, the problem is that the Check Point client is not easy to update on remote computers and it's not easy to deploy a new client."
"We would like to see support for a layer seven VPN over UDP."
"For Microsoft, maybe bandwidth optimization is one of the areas that need improvement."
"We'd like them to continue to improve on security."
"We face frequent disconnections."
"We are searching for a product with better remote access and remote sessions."
"There could be some improvement in the integration of the solution."
"The solution should have better security."
"I would like to see the hard drives work without locking up and integrate the local drives in the next release."
"The training profiles could be better."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 4th in Remote Access with 60 reviews while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 74 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point Remote Access VPN writes "Is easy to use and has a nice interface, but the scalability needs to improve". 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". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Check Point Harmony Mobile, Fortinet FortiClient and F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Access. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services report.
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