| Implementation & Licensing |
| 1 | Free Product Implementation & Support
Free product installation & support for all customers | Yes
(Implementation takes less than 1 day) | No
(Implementation takes days or weeks) |
| 2 | Licensing Model
TruGrid licensing is very straightforward and includes all features | 20-User Minimum
TruGrid licenses is per named user per month
Annual discounted licenses available | Requires Microsoft 365 or RDS CALs
Azure consumption-based pricing |
| 3 | Partner Use Licenses
TruGrid Partners get free internal-use licenses and software downloads | TruGrid includes Free Internal Use licenses for Partners | Not Available |
| 4 | Low Latency Fiber-Optic Mesh to Reduce Connection Lag
TruGrid has relay nodes in over 60 Microsoft Azure Regions to route connections via Azure fiber-optic backbone, thus reducing connection latency. See https://help.trugrid.com/en/article/how-trugrid-securerdp-works-1oshvlv/ | Yes | No
Relies on Azure Tenant Region |
| 5 | Unified Management Console
Simplifies and automates deployments and multi-tenant implementations | TruGrid Web Portal | Microsoft Azure Portal |
| 6 | Microsoft Azure Integration
Enables use of Azure Active Directory for published resources | Yes | Yes (Native) |
| 7 | Hypervisor Agnostic
Permits virtual Windows resources to be deployed on any hypervisor | Yes | No
Requires Azure infrastructure |
| 8 | Broker Load-balancing
Automatically load-balance users across resource brokers | Yes | Yes |
| 9 | Server-based virtual desktops
Multi-user virtual desktops that provide the flexibility and mobility benefits of desktop virtualization | Yes | Yes |
| 10 | VDI (Dedicated)
Desktop operating systems, such as Windows 10 and Windows 11, securely delivered to users on-demand | Yes | Yes |
| 11 | VDI (Pooled)
Desktop operating systems, such as Windows 10 and Windows 11, securely delivered to users on-demand | Yes | Yes |
| 12 | vGPU Support
Enables powerful GPU performance for workloads rich graphics and demanding computation | Yes
via Windows Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) | Yes
Supports GPU-based Azure VMs |
| 13 | Any device access
Empowers employees to choose the devices that are right for them and their work style with a universal client that works natively on the broadest range of desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones | TruGrid Connector for
Web, Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android | Microsoft Windows App for Windows and Mac, iOS, Android, HTML5 |
| 14 | Remote Access to Non-AD Machines
Provide secure remote access to physical PCs, Laptops, and VMs not joined to Active Directory | Yes
via TruGrid Secure Connect | Not Available |
| 15 | Server-based Virtual Applications (Server-based hosted apps)
Enable secure access to Windows and web apps on any type of device including iOS, Android, Mac and Windows for on-demand access from anywhere | Yes
Currently from Windows & Mac | Yes |
| 16 | Published Windows Resources over the Internet
Allows access to Published Windows Resources over the Internet | Yes | Yes |
| Security |
| 1 | Secure by Default – Firewall Protection
Provide secure remote access to Desktops and Apps without open firewall ports or firewall exposure | Yes (Any Cloud) | Yes |
| 2 | Secure by Default – Cloud Authentication via Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
Provides authentication in the cloud before access is granted to hosted resources | Yes (Any Cloud) | Yes |
| 3 | Secure by Default – Integrated Multi-Factor authentication
Automatically enabled for all users. Enhances secure access from anywhere through two-step verification | Yes | Yes |
| 4 | Secure by Default – All redirection disabled
Data traversal and ability to copy data between company and remote systems disabled by default | Yes | No
Certain Redirections Enabled by Default |
| 5 | Trusted Computer as Authenticator
Allows end users to create shortcuts on one Trusted computer and SSO to approved resources without additional authentication | Yes (Windows & Mac Only) | Not Available |
| 6 | Multiple Active Directory UPN
Within a single Active Directory domain, allows the use of any UPN defined in Domain and Trusts for login to published resources | Yes | Yes |
| 7 | Credential Guard compliant
Microsoft security feature introduced in Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows Server 2016 that guards against “Pass-the-hash” type attacks | Yes | Yes |
| 8 | Enhanced IT security
Protection of mission-critical data in the datacenter, where it can be audited, controlled and enforced by policy. Only screen updates, mouse clicks and keystrokes—not data—traverse the remote connection keeping application data safe from hackers and protecting the corporate network from unmanaged devices | Yes | Yes |
| 9 | Federated Active Directory
Microsoft AVD uses Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) for identity management. TruGrid supports Active Directory authentication, Entra ID authentication, and hybrid AD / Entra ID environments | Yes | Yes |
| 10 | Application Proxy
Microsoft AVD routes all traffic through Azure infrastructure in particular tenant region, whereas TruGrid uses dynamic fiber-optic mesh to bridge end user and remote desktop connections over global fiber-optic mesh | Yes
(Dynamic) | Yes
(Static) |
| 11 | Security Policies
Engine to employ security policies based on various contexts (example, printing, copy/paste, drive mapping drives) | via TruGrid Cloud & Desktop Connector
via Windows Group Policy | via AVD Control Plane
via Microsoft Intune or Microsoft Endpoint Management |
| 12 | High-availability
Ensures that users can connect to resources should a single broker goes offline | via existing TruGrid Sentry instance in recovery region | Requires complicated Azure recovery region configuration |
| 13 | Delegated administration
Provides the ability to designate specific administrative tasks to individual users | Yes | Yes |
| 14 | Health Monitoring
Proactively monitors the health of critical services required for end user access | Yes | Yes |
| Printing, Profile Management, and Other Features |
| 1 | Universal Printing
Mitigates the administrative burden associated with the management of network and local printer drivers | Microsoft RDS Universal Printing | Microsoft RDS Universal Printing |
| 2 | Profile Management
Writable persistent layers for personalization that captures all user settings, user-installed apps, and data | Supports Microsoft FSLogix | Supports Microsoft FSLogix |
| 3 | User experience optimization
Delivers improved user experience to support multimedia, real-time voice and video collaboration, and USB peripherals | RDP
RemoteFX (up to Windows Server 2016)
DDA (Windows Server 2019 and newer) | RDP
Azure GPU support |
| 4 | Enterprise app store
Aggregates resources in one place providing self-service access to Windows resources through a single portal from all devices | TruGrid Web and Desktop Apps | Microsoft Windows App |
| 5 | Clientless HTML5 Access
Provides access to published desktops within popular browsers using HTML5 | TruGrid Web Access Launches Native RDP | Azure Virtual Desktop Web Client |
