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Welcome to /n software PowerShell Server, a powerful SSH solution that enables administrators and other IT professionals to securely manage remote Windows machines through a lightweight PowerShell command-line interface. PowerShell Server enables secure remote access to PowerShell from remote machines through the standard SSH protocol, running as a standalone application on your Windows Desktop that sits quietly in your taskbar notification tray, or as a Windows Service that runs in the background.

Our goal with our PowerShell-based products is to make technologies more customizable by enhancing them with PowerShell scripting. We built these tools to provide an easy way to enhance and integrate applications without the complexity or expense of custom development. With PowerShell you get comprehensive access to the power of the .NET Framework in an easy to use interface that is tailor-made to help you get more work done, faster.

Major Features

PowerShell Server is a versatile application providing secure remote access to Windows Desktops and Servers though Windows PowerShell. Major features include:

SSH Terminal Server

PowerShell Server is a full-featured SSH 2.0 server that enables Windows Desktops and Servers with a secure remote entry point to a Windows PowerShell Host. This gives users the power to securely manage Windows remotely through PowerShell from any standard SSH client, including: PuTTY, OpenSSH, iPhone, Blackberry, Linux/Unix machines, as well as our own SSH client solutions.

  • Support for Secure Shell (SSH) Version 2.0.
  • Run as a Windows Service or as a standalone user application.
  • Securely connect to Windows PowerShell remotely from any standard SSH client, including: iPhone, Blackberry, Linux/Unix machine, etc.
  • Public Key, Password, and GSSAPI Authentication (NTLM and Kerberos) support.
  • Strong 3DES encryption, message integrity checking, secure secret key exchange
  • SSH tunnel support.
  • Unlimited concurrent remote connections (depending on license level).
  • An easy-to-use, lightweight and secure PowerShell Remoting alternative to WinRM.

Secure File Transfer (SFTP) Server

PowerShell Server can be used to easily add secure file transfer (SFTP server) capabilities to Windows. Unlike other SFTP solutions, PowerShell server is completely configured and managed through PowerShell configuration and scripts, offering the utmost in power and flexibility in managing secure file transfer.

  • PowerShell Enabled SFTP Server (SFTP & SCP)
  • Zlib Transfer Compression.
  • AES & 3DES Encryption.
  • Public Key and Password Authentication.
  • IPv6 Addressing Support.
  • FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography
  • Windows User Management

Web Publishing (PowerShell ASP)

PowerShell Server includes an ASP-like PowerShell based template language for building web applications and making PowerShell scripts web accessible. This template language, PowerShell ASP, contain a mixture of markup and inline PowerShell script. You can use PowerShell ASP inside your existing applications, or create complete applications from scratch based only on PowerShell web pages. PowerShell Server even comes complete with a lightweight Webserver allowing users to web-enable PowerShell scripts without the overhead and setup requirements of Microsoft IIS.

  • Classic ASP-like template language makes it easy to build dynamic Web pages using PowerShell.
  • Develop powerful yet easy to maintain Web pages based on traditional HTML/XML markup and inline PowerShell code.
  • Includes lightweight ASP.NET based Webserver

Thank You

As always, your feedback is appreciated, but we are particularly looking for your comments and suggestions on this release. Please refer to the help files and included sample code for more information. If you have questions, please contact us at support@nsoftware.com. Your feedback is the single most important driver behind new features and improvements in our products.





 
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