Windows Server 2019 Officially Supports OpenSSH For the First Time (neowin.net)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday December 13, 2018 @09:20AM from the about-time dept.

Microsoft said in 2015 that it would build OpenSSH, a set of utilities that allow clients and servers to connect securely, into Windows, while also making contributions to its development. Neowin: Since then, the company has delivered on that promise in recent releases of Windows 10, being introduced as a feature-on-demand in version 1803. However, Windows Server hadn't received the feature until now, at least not in an officially supported way -- Windows Server version 1709 included it as a pre-release feature. But that's finally changed, as Microsoft this week revealed that Windows Server 2019, which was made available (again) in November, includes OpenSSH as a supported feature.

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Re:Advantage over RDP? by markdavis · 2018-12-13 10:38 · Score: 1, Insightful

SSH is universal
It is simple
It is fast
It can run remote commands
It can run through pipes
It can be scripted
It can run well over low bandwidth
You can run other protocols through it
You can create a VPN using it
RPD is not native on *ix
It has lots of uses beyond what RDP doesn't do. It is a great tool for lower-level stuff.