We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VMware Horizon Air based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and others in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)."The solution is easy to deploy and there are many features available that you can turn on or off depending on your budget."
"In terms of the valuable features, I like the profile, the new version is really good."
"The solution works on Microsoft servers."
"The performance is one of the main features of this solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it gives me full accessibility to my servers."
"Everything is really good and it works well."
"It's largely stable."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is stable and reliable."
"The solution is good for providing dedicated resources for dedicated users."
"The solution has proven to be very stable."
"The solution isn't as good as the Citrix option."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is its security and simple configuration."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"The only issue I experienced was with the initialization of the session, which affected the stability of the solution."
"The only problems that you're going to have with the remote desktop are going to be firewall ports, security, and NLA, which is a net network level access control, or TLS transfer layer security or some other SSL-type of security."
"For Microsoft, maybe bandwidth optimization is one of the areas that need improvement."
"Updates sometimes impact the application and we have system crashes."
"It's a costly product. It would help if they could offer it at a discount."
"We have experienced some connectivity issues."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 74 reviews while VMware Horizon Air is ranked 27th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while VMware Horizon Air is rated 8.6. 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 VMware Horizon Air writes "VMware Horizon Air vs. Citrix Workspace Cloud". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Access, whereas VMware Horizon Air is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon View.
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