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Wayk Bastion (Discontinued)

Wayk Bastion (Discontinued)

Overview

What is Wayk Bastion (Discontinued)?

Wayk Bastion is a self-hosted remote access management server for machines running Wayk Agent. All remote desktop connections made by technicians using Wayk Client are authorized and monitored with corresponding session audit trails. Allowing remote access is one thing, but…

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Popular Features

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  • Over-the-Internet remote session (10)
    9.1
    91%
  • Screen sharing (10)
    9.1
    91%
  • Initiate remote control from mobile (8)
    9.1
    91%
  • File transfer (9)
    9.1
    91%
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Pricing

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Technician CAL License

$99.99

On Premise
Per Technician

Site License

$2,499.99

On Premise
Unlimited Technicians, Single Site

Country License

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On Premise
Unlimited Technicians, Multiples Sites, Single Country

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Remote Administration

Remote administration software is used to control a computer from a remote location.

8.7
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

What is Wayk Bastion (Discontinued)?

Wayk Bastion is a self-hosted remote access management server for machines running Wayk Agent. All remote desktop connections made by technicians using Wayk Client are authorized and monitored with corresponding session audit trails. Allowing remote access is one thing, but keep track of who accessed what, when and for how long is just as important for security.

Zero Trust Security Freedom

Devolutions Gateway relay servers configured with Wayk Bastion ensure independence from third-party cloud services while providing greater control on data traffic. Both Wayk Agent and Wayk Client use outbound connectivity to Wayk Bastion, such that no VPN or inbound traffic firewall exception is required. The Wayk Bastion zero trust approach to security simplifies remote access because the network location no longer matters.

** Waky Bastion is no longer being sold. Support for the product will continue till the end of 2021, but current customers and interested buyers should search for an alternative solution. Read more about support ending for Wayk Bastion here.

Wayk Bastion (Discontinued) Features

Remote Administration Features

  • Supported: Screen sharing
  • Supported: File transfer
  • Supported: Access to sleeping/powered-off computers
  • Supported: Over-the-Internet remote session
  • Supported: Initiate remote control from mobile
  • Supported: Remote management of servers & workstations
  • Supported: Centralized management dashboard
  • Supported: Multi-platform remote control

Wayk Bastion (Discontinued) Screenshots

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Wayk Bastion (Discontinued) Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web
Supported CountriesWorldwide
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French

Frequently Asked Questions

ManageEngine Access Manager Plus, Rocket Remote Desktop, and Remote Desktop Manager are common alternatives for Wayk Bastion (Discontinued).

Reviewers rate Instant message highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Wayk Bastion (Discontinued) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Wayk Now is a versatile remote access tool that offers a wide range of use cases for users across various industries and environments. Users rely on Wayk Now to access multiple systems in their environment, leveraging its seamless integration with IT-provided remote access. With its lightweight and efficient design, Wayk Now enables users to easily connect with locations worldwide, making it an ideal solution for shared desktop support. Customers have praised the tool for its ability to quickly identify and resolve issues faced by other users.

In addition to its shared desktop support capabilities, Wayk Now has gained popularity as a reliable alternative to other remote desktop tools. By seamlessly integrating with Remote Desktop Manager, Wayk Now streamlines the process of establishing secure and dependable remote connections. The tool's intuitive interface allows users to connect to their work or home PCs from any location, enabling them to swiftly address issues and perform remote testing. This flexibility has proven invaluable for businesses and individuals alike.

Wayk Now's versatility also extends to Linux systems, addressing the need for remote support on these platforms. With more features expected in future updates, Wayk Now continues to gain traction as an efficient tool for IT teams performing on-site repairs and providing remote support. Its fast and simple installer, coupled with an easy-to-navigate interface, makes it particularly popular among users seeking remote support for their family and friends' computers.

Furthermore, Wayk Now facilitates seamless access to remote resources, allowing users to interact with their computers as if they were physically present. This feature proves beneficial not only for individuals working from different locations but also for those navigating different areas within a campus environment.

Overall, Wayk Now empowers users by offering a comprehensive set of features that cater to diverse use cases. Whether it's shared desktop support, remote system access, or cross-platform connectivity, this flexible tool continues to resonate with users seeking efficient and reliable remote access solutions.

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I'm currently using Wayk Now in my business mainly for remote assist sessions with clients that call the helpdesk and need remote support via a remote session. It allows quick access to the client's machine after running them through where to download it and then to run it and read out the ID code so I can connect to their Wayk Now from mine.
  • Wayk Now has 3 authentication methods to use when connecting in to a remote Wayk Now instance - Secure Remote Password (the app password), Secure Remote Delegation (the OS credentials which is used to gain elevated rights should they be required) and finally Prompt for Permission which is very handy if your client isn't IT literate so they just get a prompt to click on to authenticate with the app that way. From what I've seen in other remote assist apps, this is fairly unique.
  • Another new feature that I think gives Wayk a slight edge over the competition is a new graphics codec for the video feed from the client app called GFWX. Again its certainly a unique take on this problem of streaming the video to the client ends app. Basically it means that the image quality is a lot better for a lot less bandwidth because of the codec's compression.
  • The last point that Wayk Now does well is its integration with the other Devolutions products such as Remote Desktop Manager in which you can create Wayk Now session entries so that you can build up a DB of your clients/your own unattended Wayk Now instances that you can open from within RDM.
  • I will say that Wayk Now is still a very young product so it's still a bit rough around the edges, but Devolutions is updating Wayk Now with fixes and improvements and new features at an incredibly rapid pace. So it's worth sticking with it even if you feel its lacking in some areas.
  • We still do not have the ability to start a remote assist session from a web page/URL like you can with some of the competition's products. But I'm hoping that will come very soon.
Wayk Now keeps up with its competition really well seeing as it's so much younger than the majority of those products. Also, it's cross OS/device support is extremely good so you should be able to connect to any OS required from Wayk Now. The star point that for me puts it ahead of the alternatives is that its now free to use commercially on OS's such as Windows Server 2016/2019 without any restrictions, TeamViewer was a nightmare in that respect because as soon as it detected you were connecting to a remote instance installed or running on a Server OS it capped your session time to 5 mins until you paid for it.
Remote Administration (7)
100%
10.0
Screen sharing
100%
10.0
File transfer
100%
10.0
Instant message
100%
10.0
Over-the-Internet remote session
100%
10.0
Initiate remote control from mobile
100%
10.0
Centralized management dashboard
100%
10.0
Multi-platform remote control
100%
10.0
  • Wayk Now has been a lifesaver for a freelancer such as myself as I was never able to afford TeamViewer as I'm still working on building up my client base so money for software always was an issue which is why I was overjoyed when Devolutions posted on their blog that they were making Wayk Now free for commercial use!
  • Wayk Now has now been added to my daily arsenal of applications I use for daily work (almost all are made by Devolutions). This means I am able to efficiently respond to calls or tickets from clients which leads to word slowly getting out that I am able to do this, which has a knock-on effect to income, which is slowly growing in my case because clients are telling their friends or clients that I'm good at responding to their problems which is because of apps such as Wayk Now. So you can be sure even if you do buy the enterprise license that it will pay for itself in less than a month or two.
  • Obviously, where Wayk is still early in development stages compared to the alternatives it does stumble now and again but that's when I've been able to turn to Devolutions other products to cover the gaps in Wayk Now's abilities.
Wayk Now was lacking as you might expect when it was released but it's now at the point where its caught up with competitor's products feature-wise. Also, Devolutions is a company I have used for years now starting with Remote Desktop Manager and as I've never had any issues what so ever with that and I'm still using RDM to this very day I knew Wayk Now would be a product that I could trust that it would be as good if not better.
Devolutions have multiple methods of getting support for Wayk Now, ranging from tickets, phone numbers, direct email, forums and live chat on their web site. So you're not short of ways to get help, I generally use the forums which at most I've had to wait for 2 or 3 for a staff member from Devolutions with a response to my query. Other times it could also come from another user which is why I like the flexibility of community forums. You can get feedback/answers to your questions from Devolutions support or the community itself.
I feel Wayk Now is very useable as it's still a very simple concept packaged basically the same way that the competition does with their remote assist type apps.
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I mainly use Wayk Now for remote assist sessions or the occasional unattended session if RDP fails to connect. I try to make sure each clients site I support at least has one instance of Wayk Now set up for unattended access as a backup connection if I ever need it. Now that the Wayk Den web portal is up and running this makes getting this set-up much easier. It's just like TeamViewer with its web portal site.
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Self Support for Wayk Now as user is IT Consultant / Network Engineer. But generally its networking troubleshooting to iron out connectivity bugs when they do happen which isnt very often now days. Client walk throughs are also required sometimes if there seems to be a problem running the exe file at the client end, again Wayn Now is so Simple to use troubleshooting is a rare occurance.
  • Primarily I use Wayk Now to fill the remote assist role in my business. It is so I can quickly provide remote assistance to clients that call with issues that require remote support.
  • After that, I use Wayk for its unattended access features to provide a backup remote access solution that does not require VPN or port forwarding which are used with my main remote access sessions.
  • Lastly, I have used Wayk Now on occasions on a LAN by using its LAN discovery feature which will look for other Wayk Now instances on a LAN or alternatively you can use IP addresses in the target field rather than 6 digit numbers, and it works as an alternative remote desktop program that has been a lifesaver for times when RDP won't connect for whatever reason.
  • Using Wayk now as a backup remote session has really saved me on many occasions now so as a rule when I get new clients ill setup the usual VPN and RDP access but now I'll also setup Wayk Now in unattended access mode on one machine or more. As it has the ability to tunnel out of a NAT/firewall as long as the remote site has an internet connection and nothing else seems to work at, at least I can use this solution to get access.
  • I cannot wait until Devolutions release a feature so that remote assist sessions can be started by guiding a client/end-user to a URL where they can enter the session ID or vice versa on the web page itself and then the client is automatically downloaded and started. This is something some competitors remote assist apps have that Wayk is still lacking but I heard through the grapevine that this feature will be out soon, so that will open up another way to use Wayk Now.
  • One other way of using Wayk now I've considered if I should ever need to do so is to use the file transfer feature of Wayk Now. Again, several competitor apps can also do file transfers but this also is a fairly recent addition and I've yet to actually need to use it.
Considering that Wayk Now comes in a free edition that can be used commercially, even if I wasn't to renew Wayk Now for whatever reason, I would still use it, but I do actually require the unattended access feature which is available for free now with the new free business licence.
Yes
TeamViewer - I mainly replaced this because TeamViewer had a time limit when connecting to Server OS's in the free version, and when I had to quickly provide a remote assist this was a nightmare. So when Devolutions said they were allowing commercial use with the free version I initially swapped for that reason alone.
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Initially, it was the free edition that attracted me to Wayk Now as I had the need to provide remote assist commercially which none of the competition would let you do. Now I've moved on to the enterprise edition and I'm very happy with it and I also use several of Devolution's other offerings and they have all been outstanding too, so personally, Devolutions is #1 in my book.
I wouldn't really change a thing.
No
Wayk now free support via the Forums is what I use when a bug or technical issue arrises that cannot be resolved without Devolutions help. I have resolved issues using the forums on multiple occasions over the time ive been using Wayk Now and Ive always managed to get a resolution without further escalation.
Yes
When Wayk now was first released I ran into bugs which are common with very new apps, On the occasion i can remember luckily the bug wasnt something that would stop being able to use Wayk Now, it was a GUI bug but it was resolved quite quickly and then the next update had fixes for this bug.
As i mentioned earlier my experience with Wayk Now support are few and far between but the Devolutons Team always provide exceptional support for all there apps, also being a Force Community member im able to contribute aswell as get insider type access which ive not seen anywhere else which is why Devolutions are on my most valued Providers / Developers.
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