We performed a comparison between Apache Guacamole and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TeamViewer, Microsoft, Citrix and others in Remote Access."I'm using Apache Guacamole as a gateway."
"You can scale the product."
"Microsoft is very reasonable in its approach to cost."
"The most valuable features are it is fast and cost-effective."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"The solution is now stable."
"I've had good experiences with Microsoft customer support."
"Installing Microsoft Desktop Services is straightforward."
"The solution's USB redirection could be improved."
"I would say it's expensive as there similar products available for free."
"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 encounter challenges with portability, especially for users of iOS devices."
"The price is too high."
"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."
"There could be some improvement in the integration of the solution."
"We find the services are not as transparent as we would like for our integration with Citrix."
"Security in the connection between us and our clients' servers is something that can be improved."
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Apache Guacamole is ranked 20th in Remote Access with 1 review while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 75 reviews. Apache Guacamole is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apache Guacamole writes "A stable and open-source solution that can be used as a gateway". 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". Apache Guacamole is most compared with VNC Connect, Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service), BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access, F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) and Check Point Remote Access VPN, whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and VMware Horizon Cloud.
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