Windows Server 2022: install the SSH server

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install SSH server (OpenSSH) on Windows Server 2019/2022. As of Windows Server 2019, the OpenSSH server is a native additional feature. For previous versions of Windows Server a tutorial is available here: OpenSSH client and server – installation on Windows Server 2012R2 and 2016 Using an …

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OpenSSH client and server – installation on Windows Server 2012R2 and 2016

In this tutorial, I will explain how to install the OpenSSH client and Server on Windows Server 2012R2 and 2016. At the time of writing this tutorial, this feature is native to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 and you might also want to have OpenSSH client or server on an earlier version. Personally, I …

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Jenkins: run PowerShell scripts

To complete the tutorial on Jenkins where I explain how to use it to run scheduled tasks and therefore turn it into a scheduler, I will show you in this tutorial, how to run PowerShell scripts. The Double-Hop Problem If you followed the first tutorial, I showed you how to run “simple” PowerShell cmdlets. If …

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Chocolatey: software repository for Windows

In this article, I will tell you about a very practical little program to make it easier for you to install programs on workstations and servers. Chocolatey is to Windows what apt-get is to Debian. Chocolatey allows you to install, update and remove software in PowerShell (ps). To install Chocolatey you must launch the command …

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Windows 10: install Windows Terminal

In this “how to” tutorial, I will explain how to install the Windows Terminal application available on Windows 10. Before launching into the “technical” part, I will first introduce you to Windows Terminal. Windows Terminal is an application which groups together all the command windows (CMD, PowerShell, WSL) in a single application and which allows …

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PowerShell and network drives

In this tutorial on “scripting”, I suggest you discover or see how to manage network drives with PowerShell and you will see that it is not that “simple”. In the tutorial: Network Drive Mapping: GPO and Script, I explain how to map a network drive with Group Policy using and how to do it with …

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Windows 10 : use the native SSH client

On Windows 10, there is a native SSH client that can be used in a command prompt, PowerShell prompt, or Terminal. At the end of this tutorial, you will no longer need Putty if you are using it exclusively for logging in via SSH. Check if the client is installed The easiest way to check …

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Hyper-V: create a virtual machine in PowerShell

In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to create a virtual machine on Hyper-V with PowerShell. The PowerShell commands of the tutorial, we were executed directly on the Hypervisor in a console launched in Administrator mode. Prerequisite: retrieve the name of the VMSwitch The first step will be to retrieve the name of …

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PowerShell: configure an IP address

In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to configure an IP address and DNS servers using PowerShell. The first step will be to retrieve the Index from the card. Enter the following Cmdlet to display the computer’s network cards: Get-NetAdapter We will therefore configure the card which has Index 2. IP address configuration …

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