We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and VNC Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TeamViewer, Microsoft, Citrix and others in Remote Access."The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is that it scales well."
"It works fine, and it is largely issue-free."
"We use it to connect to the legacy system."
"It's largely stable."
"The installation is straightforward."
"It's pretty stable."
"It's part of the Microsoft Operating system and is free."
"The performance meets our requirements and the stability is good."
"The most valuable features are that it is consistently low profile and consistently works without hiccups or headaches."
"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."
"Sometimes difficult to set up without the requirement for login credentials each time."
"Sometimes, the updates break the system."
"We face frequent disconnections."
"I would like to be able to access the remote desktop using a web-based interface, rather than having to use the client."
"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."
"The pricing could be better."
"I would say it's expensive as there similar products available for free."
"We occasionally have issues with the graphic software of the interface."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 73 reviews while VNC Connect is ranked 16th in Remote Access. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while VNC Connect is rated 9.0. 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 VNC Connect writes "Reliable and trustworthy remote access software, with responsive technical support ". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Access, whereas VNC Connect is most compared with OpenText Exceed TurboX, Apache Guacamole, Dameware Remote Support, Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) and Parallels Access.
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