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    LogMeIn Rescue

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ALogMeIn Rescue is an enterprise remote support solution that provides IT helpdesks and customer support organizations with the ability to remotely access, diagnose, and resolve issues across endpoint devices. The platform includes in-session diagnostic tools, security controls, and workflow configuration features. The solution is utilized by IT help desks, global enterprises, Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs), and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). It is designed to support…

    $149

    per month

    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
    LogMeIn RescueRemote Desktop Services
    Editions & Modules
    Remote Device Support
    $149
    per month per seat
    Rescue Enterprise
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    Pricing Offerings
    LogMeIn RescueRemote Desktop Services
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Contact sales for Enterprise pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    LogMeIn RescueRemote Desktop Services
    Considered Both Products
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Chose LogMeIn Rescue
    LogMeIn Rescue by GoTo stacks up very well against all these. The features, speed, security, ease of use are all comparable if not better than these other services. I would continue to use LogMeIn Rescue by GoTo for ease of use.
    Incentivized
    Chose LogMeIn Rescue
    LogMeIn Rescue is a more complete tool with lots of tools and possibilities. It is always a dedicated software that is more complete than the native software in other systems.
    Incentivized
    Chose LogMeIn Rescue
    LogMeIn works better than Teams I think it works the same as GoTo Meeting and TeamViewer. Connectwise and Dameware works the best for me even over LogMeIn Rescue but this company doesn't use these products. I still believe LogMeIn is a good product and tool to have to help …
    Incentivized
    Chose LogMeIn Rescue
    Compared to the on-board remote desktop tool offered in Windows, LogMeIn Rescue provides more features and the ability to "see what the user sees" through their own login rather than requiring me to log out the user and log in with my own credentials. It also allows me to chat …
    Incentivized
    Chose LogMeIn Rescue
    LogMeIn Rescue is a more secure way to connect to the remote system. If a remote desktop is not required but we only need to do a file transfer, the file transfer feature can be used without connecting to the remote session.
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Chose Remote Desktop Services
    Overall, remote desktop is so much easier to use if you are OK with the limited tools that it offers. If you're just looking to simply connect to another computer and make some quick changes, it is the way to go and the fastest way to do it. It is very simple and no frills!
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    146 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    120 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    152 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    106 Answers
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    LogMeIn RescueRemote Desktop Services
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of LogMeIn Rescue and Remote Desktop Services
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    9.4
    4 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Remote Desktop Services
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions9.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Remote Administration
    Comparison of Remote Administration features of LogMeIn Rescue and Remote Desktop Services
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    8.4
    209 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Remote Desktop Services
    4.6
    5 Ratings
    53% below category average
    File transfer8.6188 Ratings4.65 Ratings
    Instant message8.1128 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Access to sleeping/powered-off computers9.363 Ratings1.12 Ratings
    Session record8.7144 Ratings2.23 Ratings
    Annotations8.666 Ratings00 Ratings
    Screen sharing00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Secure remote access with Smart Card authentication00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Over-the-Internet remote session00 Ratings6.75 Ratings
    Initiate remote control from mobile00 Ratings3.64 Ratings
    Remote management of servers & workstations00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Remote Active Directory® management00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Centralized management dashboard00 Ratings2.23 Ratings
    Monitoring and Alerts00 Ratings3.13 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of LogMeIn Rescue and Remote Desktop Services
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    8.4
    2 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Remote Desktop Services
    -
    Ratings
    Third-party software integrations8.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Remote Access
    Comparison of Remote Access features of LogMeIn Rescue and Remote Desktop Services
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    8.6
    6 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Remote Desktop Services
    -
    Ratings
    Attended device access8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Unattended device access7.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtual device access9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple-display support8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple concurrent sessions9.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    LogMeIn RescueRemote Desktop Services
    Small Businesses
    TeamViewer
    Score8.6 out of 10
    N-able Take Control
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    BeyondTrust Remote Support
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Remote Desktop Manager
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    TeamViewer
    Score8.6 out of 10
    BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LogMeIn RescueRemote Desktop Services
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (228 ratings)
    7.8
    (20 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (23 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (81 ratings)
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (39 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LogMeIn RescueRemote Desktop Services
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    LogMeIn is extremely appopriate when you have to perform something remotely or mutltask and perform work from your location. It gives you the ability to almost be at the site and perform work. While LogMeIn is an excellent toolkit. It can not always save the day. Sometimes it is more efficient to be on site to perform hardware upgrades, multiple software upgrades, technology refresehes and or have someone send you their hardware for rescue and repair as it is too messed up to fix and or perform the tasks remotely. However if you win 60 percent of the time - it's still a great benefit
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    • To be able to connect through email or through the website.
    • To be able to remotely control our client's computers.
    • To be able to see what is on our clients' screens after a remote session has been established.
    • To be able to chat with our clients through both the web and the desktop app versions in case we get disconnected.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    • By default it would be good to have clipboard sync enabled - disabled instead. So difficult when copying from my computer doesn’t work because of an agent sharing the connection and it will not let us copy information into the client’s computer.
    • Copying into excel is difficult. It will deselect things that you have highlighted when copying.
    • Would be nice to make the hierarchy easier when sharing files between clients and us.
    • Logging into certain environments can be challenging and require customers to be fairly techy to be able to understand how to get logged into client’s computers.
    • Sometimes login is pretty unstable on certain internet connections even though they are fine when they use team viewer with their IT.
    Incentivized
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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
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Since we have not had anything other than a couple minor hiccups with LogMeIn Rescue and due to the overwhelming success we have had in implementing as well as utilizing LogMeIn Rescue, I cannot see any reason why would consider looking elsewhere. Overall, we have been highly satisfied with LogMeIn Rescue and have no intentions of making a switch.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Sometimes connecting with a PIN has a delay that confuses users. If there is a way to minimize the delay, that would be ideal. If the user's individual account does have administrator permissions, the user has to click on elevated prompts even if administrator credentials are on hand. Yes, except if the user's individual account does not have administrator permissions. I have never gotten the option to input the admin credentials and start as system server to work across hundreds of sessions. I absolutely dread using LogMeIn Rescue during this type of scenario and may even need to use an alternative temporarily. Frequently clashes with users' security software. Otherwise, I love the application.
    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
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Log me in has never failed me
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    no complaints
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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
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    We have never had to access support because the software has always worked as expected. It is great to have a software vendor from whom we know we will have no issue with glitches or incompatibility. We do know, however, that if we did have an issue, we would have our issue resolved quickly.
    Incentivized
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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
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Make sure you have your LogMeIn Rescue account sign-in details handy when installing on multiple support systems.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    I haven’t reviewed other platforms like LogMeIn Rescue because I am not aware of any alternative tools available to us for assisting clients and performing troubleshooting. Additionally, LogMeIn Rescue is the first tool I have used that allows me to view a client’s screen, which is why I am unable to compare it with others.
    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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    Scalability
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    it's perfect
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    • For businesses with small to midsize IT staff, the ability to remotely control devices that are not on-site and occasionally out of state is extremely cost-effective.
    • The speedy response time of LogMeIn Rescue has been very helpful in resolving issues for IT staff.
    • The administrative process has been made more efficient by the ability to remotely log into servers.
    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
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    ScreenShots

    LogMeIn Rescue Screenshots

    Screenshot of Technician Group Configuration - Where users can create technician groups and subgroups with granular agent permissionsScreenshot of The console where repetitive tasks automated by running pre written scripts in the background, without disturbing end usersScreenshot of A smartphone camera being used to troubleshoot offline computers and hardwareScreenshot of Remote control of Macs, PCs and Linux/AndroidScreenshot of Reboot sessions and automationScreenshot of The central dashboard where common mobile device issues on iPhone and Android can be identified and addressed without the need to navigate the end user's device.