Comments on: Install OpenSSH Server on Windows Server

By: David Scott

David Scott — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 14:41:56 +0000

I just tried the latest build of Win32 OpenSSH (v8.0.0.0p1) on an up-to-date Windows 2016 LTSC (1607) and it is working, so I guess whatever limitation preventing earlier releases of the program have now been fixed.

By: Daniel Pesta

Daniel Pesta — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 15:04:12 +0000

Thanks for putting these instructions together Thomas, I found them very helpful. I needed a couple of extra steps to make everything work:

Before I could run the Start-Service ssh-agent command, I first needed to start the service in Windows (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52113738/starting-ssh-agent-on-windows-10-fails-unable-to-start-ssh-agent-service-erro)

Get-Service -Name ssh-agent | Set-Service =StartupType Manual

Generating the keys (.\ssh-keygen -A) resulted in a ‘no such file or directory\ error until I created an ssh directory off of C:\programData.

By: mydeardiary

mydeardiary — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 22:55:32 +0000

You need to copy \sources\sxs directory into \Windows directory before adding OpenSSH.Server~~~~0.1.0.0 feature

robocopy E:\sources\sxs C:\Windows\sxs

After that, you may add openssh.server capability into existing installation.

By: Wayne Lam

Wayne Lam — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 02:16:10 +0000

I got this error when starting the service:
PS C:\windows\system32\OpenSSH> Start-Service ssh-agent
Start-Service : Service ‘OpenSSH Authentication Agent (ssh-agent)’ cannot be started due to the following error: Cannot start
service ssh-agent on computer ‘.’.
At line:1 char:1
+ Start-Service ssh-agent
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : OpenError: (System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController:ServiceController) [Start-Service], ServiceCommand
Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CouldNotStartService,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartServiceCommand

By: ASW

ASW — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 13:42:05 +0000

Is there any easy way to set PowerShell as default SSH shell instead of cmd? Thanks!

By: Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:30:24 +0000

In reply to David Mark. Sad your experience was not good. Windows Server, version 1709 is available since September last year! (2017) We now even have version 1803 and 1809 as well as the LTSC version Windows Server 2019, available!

By: David Mark

David Mark — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 05:34:27 +0000

You failed to mention that Windows Server, version 1709 and higher not available yet and not stable. I have wasted several hours believing your blog. Total useless.