We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS), and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and others in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)."Microsoft is very reasonable in its approach to cost."
"We have scaled the solution and find this easy to do."
"In terms of the valuable features, I like the profile, the new version is really good."
"The performance is one of the main features of this solution."
"We use cloud remote support because we need to assist our customers. It allows them to connect from the web. I"
"I've had good experiences with Microsoft customer support."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is scalable."
"Installing Microsoft Desktop Services is straightforward."
"The management capability from the RAS portal provides greater control than using pure MS inbuilt into RDS capabilities."
"It is robust. We have some 75 users using it and it doesn't lag. It's very speedy."
"Simplicity of the interface is a valuable feature."
"It provides flexible access to Windows applications from many types of devices."
"The solution is powerful, and it has good speed and performance."
"Its price and ease of use are the most valuable. It is simple and has good performance."
"The connection is compressed so we don't need a lot of resources to run it."
"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."
"The improvement to our organization is managing all our KVM-based virtual machines in a management environment."
"The most valuable features are automated deployment and transparent movement for virtual machines over all our locations."
"In a future release, they could improve by providing more advanced technology and better buffering for if the connection is degraded or lost."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services needs to improve its security."
"The administrative functionality is not enough for me."
"Sometimes, the updates break the system."
"We face frequent disconnections."
"We had some instability during the implementation process. This has since been resolved."
"The stability must be improved."
"I would like to see a web-based interface, instead of client installation to refresh the UI through HTML."
"Improvement is needed in performance monitoring of the client's endpoint, and automatic re-connection of the client in the event of circuit disruptions (this works well generally but can present challenges)."
"The customization of the web interface could possibly use some improvement. Little things, like being able to place a background image instead of just choosing from a palette of colors, would be nice."
"Opening a ticket should be available from the actual RAS console. It is cumbersome to go to a portal, hunt around for five minutes for a link to open a ticket, answer questions meant to direct you towards FAQs instead of live support, then fill out information (license #, version #, etc.) which could more easily be supplied by sending a ticket straight from the console with all of that information automatically specified."
"We would like to be able to re-label the OTP (One Time Password) popup so our users can easily recognize that they are to put in their DUO code on that line. Most users see OTP and ask what that is."
"We use several gateways because access to our secret zone requires two-factor user authentication. It is a lot of hassle differentiating among users with or without two-factor. Of course, we could use two farms, but that would mean more management too."
"HALB is not stable in our environment. When running two HALBs we have stability problems, so we use an active one and a passive for backup. Also, it would be nice to implement an upgrade of the environment without having to stop the servers. As it is, this must be done during off-hours."
"We would like the ability to provide a popup message, such as a maintenance notification. That same notification on the Parallels client would be awesome."
"The solution's application virtualization feature needs improvement."
"The best improvement for oVirt 4.2 is to enable backup features for major backup products of virtual machines."
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