We performed a comparison between Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services 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 ability to have all the connection information in one location saves so much time from trying to manage the same information across different applications."
"By integrating all our connections previously spread across multiple locations, a lot of time has been saved."
"Being able to aggregate all connections (RDP, FTP, SSH, VPN, etc.) in the same interface and make each server readily available in the same way, which lets me focus on the problem regardless of where it is."
"Initial setup was very straightforward."
""Inherited" function for credentials - Configure the desired credential at one (top) location, and use the Inherited function on all sub-connections that should use this credential."
"It really helps to have all the data already pre-entered and all I have to do is enter the password."
"The interface is great to work with as it allows multiple connections in a tabbed interface. It also has the option to automatically start a VPN or an SSH tunnel, if required."
"RDM has enabled me to do most of my work in one place. This helps me be able to have an RDP session open to a server in one tab and an SSH session open to a VMware host in another."
"It is a stable product."
"The solution is scalable."
"Installing Microsoft Desktop Services is straightforward."
"We use it to connect to the legacy system."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"I give the stability a nine out of ten."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Things can be made easier if someone is not with us or at a long distance since we can connect easily with those people. So, it's easy for us to use such features."
"The RDM client (.NET issue, actually) can stall or lock up while it clears communication threads to the server."
"The only complaint I have heard is there are too many updates. Each time there is an update (the app prompts to upgrade), it can be time consuming, especially when sometimes there are multiple updates per week."
"Sometimes when updating, the install window is on top of the prompt to close the application."
"On complex setups, I actually needed to reach out to support to get it working correctly."
"The filing system of connections is a little clunky, but is completely functional."
"Security roles could be improved, especially by enabling renaming of a role."
"Sometimes the manual inventory of some entries hangs, and RDM must be closed via task manager."
"Maybe some clipboard functions could be added along with integration of different software."
"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."
"We'd like them to continue to improve on security."
"I want to connect easily from an external network even when I'm not in my enterprise or company. It should be easy to connect or integrate Microsoft Teams, for example, with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services."
"There is a limitation on the number of concurrent users."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services needs to improve its security."
"Its look and feel could be updated. In Azure Remote Desktop Services (RDS), which is a VDI solution, we would like to see linked clones. It is a Hyper-V solution, and it doesn't support linked clones and uses a lot of storage. That's why we don't use it. VMware has a similar solution that supports linked clones for the master image."
"Sometimes the server stops working, and we don’t know why. Occasionally we’ll get a message to the effect of "There is no remote license.""
"The performance of Remote Desktop Services could be better."
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Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is ranked 26th in Remote Access while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 reviews. Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is rated 9.8, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager writes "Best remote connection manager you can use today". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services writes "Easy to set up and reliable, but needs an additional control panel". Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager is most compared with TeamViewer, BeyondTrust Remote Support and VNC Connect, whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Splashtop Remote Support. See our Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager vs. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services report.
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