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Windows can have a neat-o shell all they want but when you open powershell on a windows computer you still get the following when you try to ssh... so, not really seeing the point here:

ssh : The term 'ssh' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At line:1 char:1



see: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH. ssh is coming, likely in an official capacity in the future (this is an official MS group on github)


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he's not wrong though. ssh is the quickest way of accessing remove machines, not to mention secure (i have never seen remote desktop done with priv/pub key in practice). it also makes automation and transferring files easy. putty is terrible compared to ssh on linux. what i would have given for good ssh on windows back when i was still doing C#...


he's not wrong though. ssh is the quickest way of accessing remove machines

    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $ListOfComputers -Command {#code...}


yes, yes, well done. how does this work with public/private keys again?





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