We performed a comparison between Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager 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."By integrating all our connections previously spread across multiple locations, a lot of time has been saved."
"Makes me instantly more focused on resolving the issue rather than getting to the issue."
"One credential can be used to access VPN, RDS, and more."
"The interface is great to work with as it allows multiple connections in a tabbed interface. It also has the option to automatically start a VPN or an SSH tunnel, if required."
"Initial setup was very straightforward."
"The ability to have all the connection information in one location saves so much time from trying to manage the same information across different applications."
"It saves a lot of time for all of our IT staff from having to just use the RDP Windows client and reenter each server every time we access a different system."
"It really helps to have all the data already pre-entered and all I have to do is enter the password."
"It's almost an out of the box function once you have installed the other components."
"The initial setup is not that difficult. I have gone through the RDS initialization steps, which only seem easy."
"The solution is now stable."
"The most valuable features are the desktop session and desktop virtualization."
"The solution performs well and is easy to use."
"I like that it works. In most cases, it's predictable. You know what you get."
"The performance meets our requirements and the stability is good."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is that it scales well."
"The only complaint I have heard is there are too many updates. Each time there is an update (the app prompts to upgrade), it can be time consuming, especially when sometimes there are multiple updates per week."
"Maybe some clipboard functions could be added along with integration of different software."
"Sometimes the manual inventory of some entries hangs, and RDM must be closed via task manager."
"The filing system of connections is a little clunky, but is completely functional."
"On complex setups, I actually needed to reach out to support to get it working correctly."
"Sometimes when updating, the install window is on top of the prompt to close the application."
"There are always bugs to squash, beyond that, it is really kind of difficult for new users to discover and use many of the features due to the bewildering array of choices and ways to do things."
"If there was a way to streamline the process, it would make it nice."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by allowing the sharing of the office application. For example, the ability to replace a PC when something is wrong."
"Its look and feel could be updated. In Azure Remote Desktop Services (RDS), which is a VDI solution, we would like to see linked clones. It is a Hyper-V solution, and it doesn't support linked clones and uses a lot of storage. That's why we don't use it. VMware has a similar solution that supports linked clones for the master image."
"I would like to be able to leverage it on other operating systems."
"I would like to see the hard drives work without locking up and integrate the local drives in the next release."
"There are times I get disconnected from the service and when one or two attempts to establish a remote connection. Microsoft should show where the problem is, I have to find it by myself."
"I would say it's expensive as there similar products available for free."
"The solution should have better security."
"Sometimes, the updates break the system."
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Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is ranked 26th in Remote Access while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 reviews. Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is rated 9.8, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager writes "Best remote connection manager you can use today". 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". Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is most compared with TeamViewer, VNC Connect and BeyondTrust Remote Support, whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Splashtop Remote Support.
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