What's new with SSH in Azure and Windows
summary
Claims OpenSSH ships inbox by default on Windows Server 2025 and Azure Arc now provides SSH access to Arc-enabled servers (GA last summer). Demos show onboarding a Windows Server 2025 VM to Arc, running Start-Service to enable sshd, exporting an ssh_config with ProxyCommand for native SSH and Ansible, copying a public key to authorize key-based auth, configuring PowerShell 7 as the SSH subsystem and restarting sshd, and using SSH local port forwarding to tunnel RDP. Limitations: AAD auth for SSH on Windows is not ready and managing sshd_config/keys remains manual.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00SSH updates in Azure and Windows
- 1:14SSH for Windows Server
- 2:39SSH access for Arc servers
- 4:06Demo setup
- 7:17Enable SSH and Arc on Windows Server
- 9:47Connect via PowerShell and SSH
- 13:37Export SSH config
- 15:43Key-based authentication
- 17:30PowerShell remoting over SSH
- 28:25RDP via SSH tunneling
- 32:44Connect from Cloud Shell
- 35:12Azure AD auth for Linux and Windows
- 36:35On-prem SSH without Arc
- 37:37Future of SSH in Windows
- 39:48OpenSSH updates and client support
- 41:57Q&A
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