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Cost effective wrapper for MS RDP/VDI deployment. Worth it for consolidation and ease of management.
July 09, 2022

Cost effective wrapper for MS RDP/VDI deployment. Worth it for consolidation and ease of management.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Parallels Remote Application Server

We originally migrated from Citrix ICA due to overall cost. It is used in an RDP environment to deploy Windows-based ERP and Fulfillment applications to remote warehouses.
  • Easy Administration of Microsoft Terminal Services
  • HTML5 (web-based), Chrome, Linux Clients
  • Universal Printing
  • Thin Client. This was deprecated.
  • x86 support. This was deprecated
  • Certificate management
  • Significantly cheaper than Citrix.
  • Overall administration is much easier than base MS RDP
  • Ease of access and documented network/firewall scenarios aid deployment
  • Made the transition to BYOD much easier
Simplicity cost. It is a wrapper for MS RDP, not its own proprietary protocol as in both of these examples. I like the greater support for multiple OS and client flexibility. However, tuning the base network stack for high latency is mostly out of scope.
Definitely. Where legacy Windows applications are required, this makes it easy to manage (single installation) and also deploy in an almost-seamless work environment to the end-user.
Linux clients, on armhf and x86. This has allowed us to cut down on hardware replacement costs and extend the working lifespan of existing hardware (for good or ill).
N/A.

I use XenServer, and do not deploy VDIs for end users.
Was able to implement multi-factor authentication (via RADIUS) before official support was built in. Now, natively supports Google Authentication (and multi-factor), among many.
The work flow is:
* Create a ticket
* Receive a phone call
* Work with a rep.

It is responsive, though issues are not always 100% resolved.

Do you think Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS) go as expected?

No

Would you buy Parallels Remote Application Server (Parallels RAS) again?

Yes

This is definitely suitable in an MSP environment for managing RDP.