The following steps can help you quickly setup ssh access to a Linux/Windows machine using Windows Powershell :
1. Download plink.exe from the following link :
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
2. cd into the location containing plink.exe or add the full path to plink.exe to the “path” environment variable.
3. Open a new Powershell session and use the following command to establish a new ssh session to a remote machine.
.\plink username@hostname
This will allow the interactive keyboard authentication mechanism and will require you to enter your password.
Enter you password.
Woohoo !!!