We performed a comparison between Microsoft Remote Desktop Service and Vmware Workspace ONE based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on these parameters, Microsoft Remote Desktop Service seems to be the superior solution. Vmware Workspace ONE’s inability to integrate with Microsoft solutions and high cost seem to make Microsoft Remote Desktop Service a better choice.
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution is now stable."
"The solution offers good value for money."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is that it scales well."
"The solution is really fast."
"The tool shares computer resources perfectly."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is highly stable."
"The solution performs well and is easy to use."
"It is easy to start something and work from scratch."
"Workspace ONE adds a lot of value compared to Microsoft because Microsoft is a late entry into the market, and they're still developing their product from an end-user perspective. Workspace ONE has a slight edge because of AirWatch. VMware has developed its product over a longer period of time, so they have better integrations as a whole solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it enables us to remotely manage the devices, which is its purpose, and to push applications to the mobile devices from the portal."
"We find it to be reliable."
"Sometimes, we face an issue and raise a ticket. The technical support team is fantastic and resolves the issue."
"We can do single sign-on and make use of the same user account to log into multiple applications."
"The feature that we find most valuable is the corporate email pushing."
"We've configured single sign-on for two or three enterprise customers, and it works very well."
"There are times I get disconnected from the service and when one or two attempts to establish a remote connection. Microsoft should show where the problem is, I have to find it by myself."
"For Microsoft, maybe bandwidth optimization is one of the areas that need improvement."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"Security in the connection between us and our clients' servers is something that can be improved."
"We had some instability during the implementation process. This has since been resolved."
"It could offer better security for enterprises."
"The performance depends on connectivity."
"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."
"One of the things that I want them to improve on, if possible, is the management of Mac devices, MacBook Pro, for example. They do it, but they have scope for improvement, in my opinion. It's not that it's that bad, it just a small need."
"Cost of licensing is quite high."
"Pricing is the only challenge right now. The licensing fee should be simplified a little bit. They have kept too many products as add ons. These need to be bundled with the low-cost, standard version. This will help customers in adopting this technology at a faster pace."
"VMware Workspace ONE for the new users or the new clients that they try to procure and learn it, there can have difficulties. It does not have user-friendly portals. The portal seems to be more user-friendly in Microsoft solutions."
"One thing VMware needs to improve is compatibility with different operating systems."
"In terms of the inventory management side, as in the invoice management, the stock management and the entire inventory of an organization is lagging a bit in comparison to Blackberry or other EMM solutions."
"Sometimes, we have challenges with remote patching and remote version upgrades."
"The bigger vendors like VMware, Insight, and MobileIron can assign engineers to customers. You can work with them to develop the right competency to use the product."
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Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 2nd in Remote Access with 76 reviews while VMware Workspace ONE is ranked 2nd in Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) with 82 reviews. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0, while VMware Workspace ONE is rated 8.2. 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 VMware Workspace ONE writes "The solution is stable, scalable, and offers single sign-on". Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, Citrix Workspace, VMware Workstation and Parallels Access, whereas VMware Workspace ONE is most compared with Microsoft Intune, VMware Horizon, Jamf Pro, SOTI MobiControl and Citrix Endpoint Management.
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