We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and N-able Take Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TeamViewer, Microsoft, Citrix and others in Remote Access."The solution is now stable."
"I give the stability a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the simple environment."
"It's simple and easy to use."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution at the moment is the HTML5 web client. You get a browser experience, not just the terminal sort of client, and the integration with Azure multi-factor application."
"Good screen draw feature and ability to use two monitors."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The most valuable part of N-able Take Control is being able to remotely access your customer's site. You are able to view their network. Once you have it set up, it's always available. N-able Take Control can be used even when other remote access controls have been made."
"Take Control enables you to collaborate with end users. It's for supporting a workstation where you want the person on the other side to see you moving their mouse, and you can work with them."
"There is a limitation on the number of concurrent users."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services needs to improve its 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."
"My customers are worried that the RDP protocol can be easily compromised and would like the option to use an alternative like Blast."
"We've had issues with security breaches."
"I would say it's expensive as there similar products available for free."
"Sometimes difficult to set up without the requirement for login credentials each time."
"It could be made simpler from a management perspective."
"We've seen some latency problems in AWS environments. Aside from that, it's a pretty solid service."
"The dashboards I do not use because there are issues. The solution monitors your antivirus and other programs but it does not seem to work well."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 69 reviews while N-able Take Control is ranked 19th in Remote Access with 2 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while N-able Take Control is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services writes "Easy to set up and reliable, but needs an additional control panel". On the other hand, the top reviewer of N-able Take Control writes "Valuable remote access feature, highly stable, and scalable". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Access, whereas N-able Take Control is most compared with TeamViewer and Dameware Remote Support.
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