14 DAY TRIAL // On June 2, the PowerShell Team at Microsoft had the great pleasure of announcing that they would support and contribute to the OpenSSH community in order to deliver better SSH support in the PowerShell and Windows SSH software solutions.
Apparently, this is not the first attempt to implement SSH support in the PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration) software, which is used by system administrators around the world to manage the configuration of both Linux and Windows workloads.
However, because Microsoft is now geared towards a more customer-oriented culture and because SSH (Secure Shell) support is the number one request of most PowerShell users, which can be used to interoperate between Linux and Windows systems easily, the team decided that it was also time to contribute back and support the entire OpenSSH community, not only take the software and implement it.
"Finally, I'd like to share some background on today’s announcement, because this is the 3rd time the PowerShell team has attempted to support SSH. The first attempts were during PowerShell V1 and V2 and were rejected. Given our changes in leadership and culture, we decided to give it another try and this time, because we are able to show the clear and compelling customer value, the company is very supportive," wrote Angel Calvo, Group Software Engineering Manager for the PowerShell Team at Microsoft.
OpenSSH allows for remote management of Linux and Windows systems
Apparently, the OpenSSH software is the best SSH (Secure Shell) implementation available on the market. Not only that it is an open-source implementation of the SSH protocol, but it offers a large number of features that are not available in other SSH implementations.
After having reviewed all the available SSH solutions, Microsoft realized that OpenSSH was the best Secure Shell implementation, especially that it is an industry-proven encrypted network protocol solution. OpenSSH will soon be implemented in the PowerShell software for both Linux and Windows operating systems.