We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and N-able Take Control 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."It is a stable product."
"The installation is straightforward."
"Things can be made easier if someone is not with us or at a long distance since we can connect easily with those people. So, it's easy for us to use such features."
"The most valuable features are availability and security."
"It's pretty stable."
"The performance meets our requirements and the stability is good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the simple environment."
"The most valuable feature of this solution at the moment is the HTML5 web client. You get a browser experience, not just the terminal sort of client, and the integration with Azure multi-factor application."
"The most valuable part of N-able Take Control is being able to remotely access your customer's site. You are able to view their network. Once you have it set up, it's always available. N-able Take Control can be used even when other remote access controls have been made."
"Take Control enables you to collaborate with end users. It's for supporting a workstation where you want the person on the other side to see you moving their mouse, and you can work with them."
"The performance of Remote Desktop Services could be better."
"The solution should have better security."
"The initial setup of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is not the easiest. You need to have a certain understanding of how Microsoft is provisioning the solution to be able to set it up and use it."
"Security in the connection between us and our clients' servers is something that can be improved."
"We find the services are not as transparent as we would like for our integration with Citrix."
"I would say it's expensive as there similar products available for free."
"Microsoft should be more compatible with other operating system."
"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 dashboards I do not use because there are issues. The solution monitors your antivirus and other programs but it does not seem to work well."
"We've seen some latency problems in AWS environments. Aside from that, it's a pretty solid service."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 reviews while N-able Take Control is ranked 19th in Remote Access with 2 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while N-able Take Control 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 N-able Take Control writes "Valuable remote access feature, highly stable, and scalable". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access, whereas N-able Take Control is most compared with TeamViewer, Dameware Remote Support and Check Point Remote Access VPN. See our Microsoft Remote Desktop Services vs. N-able Take Control report.
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