The gap between Windows and Linux system administrators is shrinking with Microsoft's support for OpenSSH.

OpenSSH rapidly rose to become the most popular SSH implementation in use, and Calvo said the PowerShell team will support and contribute to the open source Secure Shell developer community.

Even so, it is still relatively easy to use OpenSSH to establish a connection to a Linux system. You can launch OpenSSH through PowerShell by entering the SSH command.

How to manage files over SFTP with PowerShell Tony Arulpiragasam, former infrastructure specialist for business applications at engineering and professional services firm WSP, emphasized that using ...

An upcoming version of Windows PowerShell will let users manage Windows and Linux computers through Secure Shell protocol and Shell session (better known as SSH), thanks to some new functionality ...

We shall see Anyhow, you may or may not remember my last attempt in my quest for SSH support directly within PSH. Needless to say my “feedback” has gone nowhere with the product group.

I cannot believe anyone would be excited about SSH being included with Powershell, as if Powershell holds a candle to BASH. Yeah, this is a whole 'nuther aspect of the whole Windows sadness.