We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and TeamViewer Pilot based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TeamViewer, Microsoft, Citrix and others in Remote Access."The solution is easy to deploy and there are many features available that you can turn on or off depending on your budget."
"The most valuable feature is performance."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The solution works well as a remote desktop."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is the ability to remote into a system that is not on-premises."
"Everything is really good and it works well."
"It's part of the Microsoft Operating system and is free."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is that it scales well."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"Updates sometimes impact the application and we have system crashes."
"It could be made simpler from a management perspective."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"In a future release, they could improve by providing more advanced technology and better buffering for if the connection is degraded or lost."
"The product is not very scalable."
"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."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is only available for the professional version of the Windows operating system. This restricts a lot of users. The feature should be available for all versions."
"It's quite power-hungry and some customers complain that it drains the batteries on their smartphones very quickly."
"The location markings can appear incorrectly."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 69 reviews while TeamViewer Pilot is ranked 27th in Remote Access. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.2, while TeamViewer Pilot is rated 8.0. 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 TeamViewer Pilot writes "Good tech support ". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Access, whereas TeamViewer Pilot is most compared with TeamViewer Tensor and TeamViewer.
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