We performed a comparison between Check Point Remote Access VPN and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services 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."The IPSec VPN, Mobile Access, and Identity Awareness are three of the blades with which we have been working with since the pandemic. This has given us great mobility, making our network more dynamic."
"It is easy to install the Endpoint Remote Access VPN client to different platforms."
"Scalability is great. We have been able to grow as a corporation due in part to this type of solution."
"This platform has developed a reliable communication infrastructure that employees can use to communicate with remote workers."
"Check Point Remote Access VPN has some useful features, and configuring it is relatively straightforward."
"The team has full visibility of the users that connect allowing them to keep control of who is in the network and what data they are allowing to come in and out."
"Organizations that already use the Check Point NGFW Solution do not require any additional hardware, which makes the implementation straightforward and reduces the time to go live."
"Thanks to all these security processes, our users can access our infrastructure with the certainty that we will not be compromised."
"The product is stable."
"It's part of the Microsoft Operating system and is free."
"It works fine, and it is largely issue-free."
"The most valuable part of RDS is that it allows you to work from any location and check the server through a VPN connection."
"We have scaled the solution and find this easy to do."
"The most valuable feature is that it gives me full accessibility to my servers."
"The performance is one of the main features of this solution."
"You can scale the product."
"A characteristic to improve is the communication service under the SMTP scheme."
"Sometimes it causes the consumption of machine resources, and also improves the scanning since they consume many resources in the clients' machines."
"Connection of devices from various locations is efficient though there are a few challenges when there is a network failure."
"Sometimes we have some small problems with Check Point Remote Access VPN. For example, problems with authentication."
"We have noted some stability issues."
"In an environment with multiple cluster checkpoints, the global properties common to all clusters in some cases give problems."
"We would like to see support for a layer seven VPN over UDP."
"We would like to implement HTML5 (clientless access) in the product without installing any additional software."
"We encounter challenges with portability, especially for users of iOS devices."
"The DB card needs improvement. I have a lot of experience with other competitors and Citrix is better than VMware and Microsoft. Citrix has more extensive features."
"The training profiles could be better."
"We are searching for a product with better remote access and remote sessions."
"Microsoft should be more compatible with other operating system."
"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."
"The price is too high."
"I would say it's expensive as there similar products available for free."
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Check Point Remote Access VPN is ranked 5th in Remote Access with 62 reviews while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 reviews. Check Point Remote Access VPN is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point Remote Access VPN writes "Is easy to use and has a nice interface, but the scalability needs to improve". 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". Check Point Remote Access VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Fortinet FortiClient, Check Point Harmony Mobile and F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access. See our Check Point Remote Access VPN vs. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services report.
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