We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and TeamViewer Tensor 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."You can scale the product."
"The performance meets our requirements and the stability is good."
"The solution is now stable."
"The most valuable part of RDS is that it allows you to work from any location and check the server through a VPN connection."
"The most valuable features are the desktop session and desktop virtualization."
"Good screen draw feature and ability to use two monitors."
"The solution has very smooth connectivity and is very user friendly."
"We have scaled the solution and find this easy to do."
"The most valuable feature of TeamViewer Tensor is the remote access."
"This product is very simple to use and you can connect whether you are behind a firewall or not."
"Remote desktop sharing is one valuable feature of the solution."
"For Microsoft, maybe bandwidth optimization is one of the areas that need improvement."
"I would like to be able to access the remote desktop using a web-based interface, rather than having to use the client."
"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."
"The biggest reason we don't use the solution for our company's clients is the solution's prices."
"Users have to re-enter their ID and password every time they log on, which is tedious and repetitive."
"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 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."
"Having the ability to create subgroups and delegate permissions to the group members would be a helpful addition."
"The solution could include more AI (Artificial Intelligence)."
"The SSO feature of the solution may sometimes not function perfectly…Pricing might be improved for TeamViewer Tensor."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 69 reviews while TeamViewer Tensor is ranked 9th in Remote Access with 4 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.2, while TeamViewer Tensor is rated 8.6. 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 Tensor writes "A user-friendly and stable solution providing remote desktop sharing functionality to its users". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Access, whereas TeamViewer Tensor is most compared with TeamViewer, BeyondTrust Remote Support, TeamViewer Pilot and Parallels Access. See our Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. TeamViewer Tensor report.
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