We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and N-able Take Control 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 solution is easy to use."
"The product is stable."
"The most valuable feature is that it gives me full accessibility to my servers."
"The most valuable feature is the remote application access."
"Installing Microsoft Desktop Services is straightforward."
"The tool shares computer resources perfectly."
"Good screen draw feature and ability to use two monitors."
"The solution is really fast."
"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."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see better performance over slower networks, and integration with Linux, but this is something that we're going to get out of Microsoft in terms of a unified solution."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"In a future release, they could improve by providing more advanced technology and better buffering for if the connection is degraded or lost."
"We had some instability during the implementation process. This has since been resolved."
"Microsoft still has some really bad remote desktop appliance for Mac."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services could improve by having graphical acceleration."
"We've had issues with security breaches."
"The administrative functionality is not enough for me."
"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 76 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, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access, whereas N-able Take Control is most compared with TeamViewer and Dameware Remote Support. See our Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. N-able Take Control report.
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