Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) Initial Setup
The solution's initial setup process is easier and faster than Citrix. It takes two to three hours to complete.
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Devraj Dedhia
IT Analyst at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial set up was pretty straightforward. We knew what applications we needed and we knew the platform, so it was pretty straightforward.
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Timo Stubel
Senior Presales Engineer at CenterTools Software GmbH
The solution's initial setup is easy.
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Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS)
April 2024
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-Jeremy Hallock
Datacenter Engineer at Freelancer
If you don't have any experience with it, some of the setup was a little bit complex, but now that I've worked with it, thinking back about what was required, it doesn't seem so difficult. In a smaller environment, I think it's fairly easy to set up. Once you start to build out a little bit more, it can get a little complex. By small environment, I'm referring to an organization with one front-end server, one gateway and one or two applications.
We didn't have time to do any testing beforehand. We had to do immediate implementation. There was no knowledge at all of the product, so we were installing it without any background. It took several days at least to get things working. I was working 20-hour days for a month and I've forgotten the way things were going and what we did and how long it took. We were doing so many things at the same time, because we'd had a data center failure and a hack, and this was the way to get us back online. We carried out the deployment ourselves together with some Parallels' support.
View full review »The initial setup was straightforward.
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reviewer2289528
System administrator at a construction company with 11-50 employees
The initial setup is simple. I rate the process a nine out of ten.
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ProjectMf444
Project Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
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JohanSkibdahl
CEO at Etcetera Networks
It is quite easy. It is not complex.
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Jim Carlton
IT Director at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The setup was pretty straightforward. In this environment especially, it's just two or three programs that we have that a lot of people need to use, so it was just getting it set up, installed the right way, and making sure that everybody was able to get connected. We made sure everybody could get the right client software. Then, upgrading software versions, we made sure we got that taken care of on everybody's computers, and went from there.
With a different client that I had set it up for, it was a little bit more complicated but that was the nature of their environment, not so much the software.
View full review »We had them assist us with the setup and I think that's important. When rolling out a product like this, the vendor should want to help implement, so it's implemented correctly. We used them to implement it, and that's the way it's been running since we started.
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MichaelCoxon
Technical Lead (Windows Desktops) / Senior IT Consultant at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The setup was done by the vendor and seemed straigtforward.
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Christophe Jurdan
System Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup was of medium complexity. We initially purchased a RAS server to provide more advanced load balancing capabilities between our remote desktop servers. This configuration was quite simple. We added another gateway server later and that was straightforward too.
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James-Russell
Professional Services at a tech services company
Initial setup was straightforward. If you have a multi-site farm and multiple levels of redundancy, it does add complexity, but less than any other products I have used.
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Operatiofa69
Operation Manager Servers and Central Infrastructure
The initial setup is straightforward, but ours was more complex to meet all our needs.
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Technicad953
Technical Operations Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The initial setup was straightforward.
View full review »Setup was straightforward. Our particular use case involved an Active Directory forest involving two data centers and three domains. User authentication against Active Directory was the easiest to set up and validate of any application installed in the last three years.
View full review »Tech support helped me upgrade it to the current version. It was pretty much straightforward.
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ITManagecd19
IT Manager at a recruiting/HR firm with 51-200 employees
Straightforward. Our vendor did it.
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reviewer1369137
Solution consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The initial setup was a little bit complex because we were migrating from Citrix, but we got help from them all the time. The deployment took about two days.
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reviewer980673
Managing Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The setup is simple and took a few days.
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Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS)
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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