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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ISL Light

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    ISL Light is remote support and remote access software that enables SMBs and large enterprises to offer fast and efficient support and maintenance for Windows, Mac and Linux computers as well as mobile device support for Android and iOS.

    $16.90

    per month (1 concurrent user)

    Remote Desktop Services

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ARemote Desktop Services from Microsoft is virtual desktop and remote user session technology.N/A
    Pricing
    ISL LightRemote Desktop Services
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $16.90
    per month
    Standard
    $34.90
    per month
    Self-Hosted
    $44.90
    per month
    Premium
    $54.90
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ISL LightRemote Desktop Services
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsISL Online's pricing model considers the number of licenses purchased, which determines the maximum number of concurrent users within the organization. A concurrent user is defined as anyone running one or more sessions simultaneously from any device. There are no restrictions on the number of ISL Light users within a company or the remote devices managed. For example, with three licenses, an unlimited number of people in a company can use ISL Light and can access an unlimited number of remote devices, but only three users can use it concurrently. When one of these three users ends their session, a fourth user can begin their session, and so on.—
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    ISL LightRemote Desktop Services
    Considered Both Products
    ISL Online
    Chose ISL Light
    While these are all good products and provide a solution in other use cases, at the time we were searching, ISL Light fit our use case best. It is a completely self-contained and privately hosted solution with a tool for each step, user contact, information gathering, remote …
    Incentivized
    Chose ISL Light
    Overall functionality, ease of use and stability for unattended remote management
    Incentivized
    Chose ISL Light
    it is reliable, easy to install, easy to use, cost-effective

    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    108 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    101 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    107 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    87 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    101 Answers
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    ISL LightRemote Desktop Services
    Remote Administration
    Comparison of Remote Administration features of ISL Light and Remote Desktop Services
    Feature
    ISL Light
    8.1
    108 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Remote Desktop Services
    4.6
    5 Ratings
    53% below category average
    Screen sharing8.6102 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    File transfer8.3102 Ratings4.65 Ratings
    Instant message8.183 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Secure remote access with Smart Card authentication8.125 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Access to sleeping/powered-off computers6.378 Ratings1.12 Ratings
    Over-the-Internet remote session8.799 Ratings6.85 Ratings
    Initiate remote control from mobile7.964 Ratings3.64 Ratings
    Remote management of servers & workstations8.787 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Remote Active Directory® management8.832 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Centralized management dashboard8.364 Ratings2.23 Ratings
    Session record7.671 Ratings2.23 Ratings
    Annotations8.456 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring and Alerts7.947 Ratings3.13 Ratings
    Multi-platform remote control8.179 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ISL LightRemote Desktop Services
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (108 ratings)
    7.8
    (20 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (71 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ISL LightRemote Desktop Services
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ISL Online
    ISL light is suitable for anyone who plans to provide remote assistance services on a medium to large scale. Due to the high entry price, it is less suitable for consultants with a smaller number of clients or remote stations that need management. Their smallest package in which minutes are rented does not seem suitable for most cases.
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    Microsoft
    This is well-suited if you need to log in to a remote machine on occasion to make updates or change configurations. It is also good for a production environment or for environments where people need to log in to use common applications, so you don't need to install the application on each individual client.
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    Pros
    ISL Online
    • Prikaz strani na kateri se nahaja uporabnik
    • Prikaz kontaktov uporabnikov
    • Zgodovina pogovorov s strankami
    • Možnost spreminjanja statusa dosegljivosti
    • Nalaganje datotek, zajemov slik,..
    • Klepetalnik, ki je enostaven za uporabo
    • Nas obvesti, da smo dobili sporočilo, tudi če smo izven klepetalnika
    • Display the page the user is on
    • Displaying user contacts
    • Customer conversation history
    • Ability to change availability status
    • Uploading files, capturing images, etc.
    • An easy-to-use chatbot
    • Notifies us that we have received a message, even if we are outside the chat room
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    Microsoft
    • When you connect with RDS, everything looks and feels (and is) exactly like you're sitting at that desktop. This is great for us and for users.
    • You can sign in with RDS and the desktop will be the same as when you left it (if you choose to set it up that way).
    • Although they take some setup, RemoteApps are a very handy way to let users access a program without requiring them to actually connect to a remote desktop on the server.
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    Cons
    ISL Online
    • Need a control toggle at least on AlwaysOn. User moves the mouse and you lose all control instantly.
    • Clipboard features are a bit wonky still, and your clipboard seems to get emptied a lot. So if you're trying to copy and paste you might lose something
    • Passwords for the systems are saved per machine, so if you work from multiple devices it can be tricky if you have complex passwords
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    Microsoft
    • Remote Desktop Services currently does not support multiple monitors on the terminal server. Unlike other applications such as Teamviewer, there's no feature to toggle between multiple screens even if they were connected to the terminal server.
    • Remote Desktop Services should provide an option to scale up or down the screen size after a connection is established. Currently you can only adjust the screen size prior to a connection is established. So you'll have to take a best guess at what display screen resolution will fit best on your screen.
    • Remote Desktop Services should offer some kind of menu to send special key strokes like Ctrl+Alt+Del to the terminal server. Currently the substitute for that particular combination is Ctrl+Alt+End. But I have yet to discover a replacement for other combination keystrokes such as Alt+PrintScrn.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ISL Online
    We are renew the license for 10 years now and we do not see why would change that. It just gets better with every new version.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    ISL Online
    Everything works well and quickly, and that's all we need. ISL Light always works, and we've never had a situation where the server was inaccessible or the website was down. It simply gives us a 100% guarantee that we can always log in to our customers' systems. We can install the ISL Light client at our customers' sites without any problems, even though security is high.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    The initial setup for Remote Desktop Services is complex, and licensing is costly. Each user connects to their virtual desktop hosted by a single server or group of servers, so a change or issue with servers quickly impacts every single user at the same time. Aside from that, users appreciate seeing their same personal desktop from any device or geographical location.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ISL Online
    During the entere time of use, I have never come across any availability issues.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    ISL Online
    High performance!
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    There are some third party tools available that allow you to manage multiple connections.
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    Support Rating
    ISL Online
    We had issues with mouse skipping on mobile devices. Support is immediatly availabe, they examined our case and in one of the new versions of the app this problem was gone.
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    Microsoft
    As with any Microsoft Server product, support for Remote Desktop Services requires a paid support package. These are license-based and very costly, on top of the already costly product licensing. Microsoft's licensing is complicated to begin with, so setting up licensing alone essentially requires a licensing expert's counsel. There is community documentation and support available on Microsoft websites, as well as community websites.
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    Implementation Rating
    ISL Online
    It was so easy!
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    ISL Online
    The main reason was price initially, after TeamViewer jacked up the price 3 fold come covid in start of 2020, told them to get stuffed and went elsewhere, back then they had a good reliable product, then after I switched to another provider, the came crawling back and offer me the same price I was paying before the COVID tax (3 times increase in price) like I said, told them to get stuffed, ISL on the other hand didn’t increase their price when covid started, so have been with them ever since.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    We selected Remote Desktop Services based upon price alone. Other solutions on the market are significantly more expensive, but if your company can foot the bill you should seriously consider products that have been on the market for longer. The lack of an ability to easily upgrade farm servers has been a challenge for us - although it is still faster than updating an application on 2000+ machines. The lack of a centralized management console in 2008 R2 is also challenging, but you get by with the tools available to you. If you don't have the money to spend on Citrix or VMWare Horizon, Remote Desktop Services is a decent replacement.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    ISL Online
    tot perfecte
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    Microsoft
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    Scalability
    ISL Online
    Easy to deploy onto new devices. Ability to group devices so they can managed remotely efficiently.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    ISL Online
    No professional services used
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
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    Return on Investment
    ISL Online
    • It allows you to hold meetings with clients from other cities.
    • Ease of training staff from large groups
    • Resolving problems in a short time, which is an optimal strategy for improving delivery times
    • permite realizar reuniones con clientes de otras ciudades
    • Facilidad de capacitar personal de grupos numerosos
    • Resolucion de problemas en tiempo corto, lo cual es una estrategia optima para mejorar los tiempos de entrega
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • Allowed remote users access from home
    • Shared file access for multipolar users from a centralized location
    • Cost to add additional users when maxed out
    • Purchase multiple licenses for programs to run in virtual machines. Or unable to run on a virtual machine
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    ISL Light Screenshots

    Screenshot of remote access control in ISL Light.Screenshot of unattended access setup. Access can be allowed to as many computers as desired.Screenshot of a connection with a remote client, which can be set up by sending an email or sharing a link.Screenshot of interactions with the Windows UAC on a remote device.Screenshot of the dual panel File Manager, used to transfer files.Screenshot of the web console where remote desktop sessions can be managed from a web browser.