As a webmaster SSH is extremely important, and while Linux and Mac users get SSH support straight out the box Windows users are forced to rely on third-party tools such as my personal favorite – PuTTY. However in a new post on the Windows PowerShell Blog – the Microsoft PowerShell team revealed that they have began working on integrating SSH support into Windows.
A popular request the PowerShell team has received is to use Secure Shell protocol and Shell session (aka SSH) to interoperate between Windows and Linux – both Linux connecting to and managing Windows via SSH and, vice versa, Windows connecting to and managing Linux via SSH. Thus, the combination of PowerShell and SSH will deliver a robust and secure solution to automate and to remotely manage Linux and Windows systems.
Currently the team is in the early planning stages and as such there’s really no more information except they’re working on it to tell you. What we do know is that the PowerShell team doesn’t plan to develop an SSH solution completely from scratch – but instead has chosen to work with the OpenSSH community and adapt OpenSSH to work with Windows.