Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. VMware Horizon 7 and other solutions. Updated: January 2021. 456,495 professionals have used our research since 2012. |
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Pricing and Cost Advice | |
"The solution has a perpetual license and it is purchased upfront." "It will probably cost about $500 USD to get the resources set up in the cloud." "Although not an expensive product, pricing is always something that can be improved." "It's not an expensive solution." "It's not an expensive product." More Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Pricing and Cost Advice » | "Its cost is fair. You can go for a free trial, but for initializing a project, you need to purchase a license. There are different types of licenses." |
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Questions from the Community | |
Top Answer: The most valuable feature is the remote application access. Top Answer: It will probably cost about $500 USD to get the resources set up in the cloud. Top Answer: There are problems with using Microsoft Teams within a virtual desktop on a mobile device. Specifically, if you are using Teams and conferencing, then there is no microphone capability. To be clear… more » | Ask a question Earn 20 points |
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Views 15,810 Comparisons 13,006 Reviews 11 Average Words per Review 363 Rating 7.8 | Views 3,641 Comparisons 3,346 Reviews 2 Average Words per Review 550 Rating 7.5 |
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Remote Desktop Services | |
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Microsoft | VMware |
Overview | |
Remote Desktop Services is a server role in Windows Server that provides technologies that enable users to access session-based desktops, virtual machine-based desktops, or applications in the data center from both within a corporate network and from the Internet. Remote Desktop Services enables a rich-fidelity desktop or application experience, and helps to securely connect remote users from managed or unmanaged devices. | Horizon 7 allows IT to deliver virtual or RDSH published desktops and applications through a single platform to end users. These desktop and application services— including RDS hosted apps, packaged apps with VMware ThinApp, SaaS apps, and even virtualized apps from Citrix—can all be accessed from one unified workspace to provide end users with all of the resources they want, at the speed they expect, with the efficiency business demands. |
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Learn more about Microsoft Remote Desktop Services | Learn more about VMware Horizon 7 |
Sample Customers | |
Bank Alfalah Ltd. | LCMC Health |
Top Industries | |
Financial Services Firm43% Manufacturing Company14% Healthcare Company14% Government14% Comms Service Provider24% Computer Software Company24% Government7% Educational Organization6% | Computer Software Company38% Comms Service Provider16% Government6% Media Company5% |
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Small Business33% Midsize Enterprise29% Large Enterprise38% | Small Business45% Midsize Enterprise18% Large Enterprise36% |
Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop with 10 reviews while VMware Horizon 7 is ranked 8th in Virtual Desktop with 4 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 7.8, while VMware Horizon 7 is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services writes "It's predictable but they need to develop better support for remote desktops for alternative platforms". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Horizon 7 writes "An easy initial setup with a good unified gateway and very good technical support". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon View, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) and VMware Horizon Cloud, whereas VMware Horizon 7 is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon View, VMware Horizon Cloud, VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation. See our Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. VMware Horizon 7 report.
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