Secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) is a safe way to transfer files between hosts over the internet. While PowerShell does not offer built-in support for SFTP, you can add this functionality using ...

The Microsoft PowerShell team will contribute to the OpenSSH community to create a way to use Windows PowerShell with SSH, for securely connecting to and managing computers running Windows and Linux.

In short, "the PowerShell team will support and contribute to the OpenSSH community." Yes, that's right. Microsoft will be contributing to the OpenSSH under its BSD-style open-source license.

Adding SSH support was a long time coming and wouldn’t have been possible without those changes at Microsoft. Calvo revealed that the PowerShell team tried to include SSH support in versions 1 ...