

The application is a portable executable, so you don’t have to run through an installation process.

Solar-PuTTY enables storing secured credentials and comes with support for SCP and (S)FTP besides SSH and Telnet. You can manually create SSH connections, import them from other instances, or create one by connecting to the SSH server’s IP address. Instead of using a small Windows popup, Solar-Putty runs in a full-screen, resizable window. SolarWinds built on the free and super-popular PuTTY tool to create the more powerful Solar-PuTTY. We’ll also share some guidelines to help select your next SSH client on Windows.

We’ll examine cost, ease of setup and use, and feature set from a protocol supportability perspective for each client. While we’ve left the most common SSH client, PuTTY, out of the comparison, since its makers haven’t updated it since 2007, we’ll share some details on a few other tools derived from the original PuTTY bits. In this article, we’ll explore the more common ones and compare the core characteristics of the following five clients: There are several Windows-friendly SSH clients available to keep these connections secure. In on-premises and hybrid or public cloud scenarios, Windows clients connect to Linux-based web servers and Kubernetes containers or microservices. In today’s IT environments, operating systems blend into each other.
