Category: Tutorials
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How to transfer and download files using FTP
Learn how to download from FTP using graphical clients or the command line. Understand your options and explore secure alternatives like SFTP, FTPS and MFT.
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Unlock your potential: JSCAPE courses now available in redwood university!
Have you heard the exciting news!? Redwood University recently expanded its training resources for JSCAPE by Redwood customers. Whether you’re a seasoned user or just getting started, these courses are designed to enhance your…
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How to set up an AS2 EDI connection
Many organizations that employ electronic data interchange (EDI) in their business-to-business (B2B) transactions exchange EDI messages through the Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) protocol. EDI communications carried out over AS2 are sometimes called AS2 EDI.…
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How To Automate An SFTP File Transfer
Automated secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) file transfers are traditionally done through scripts, but there’s a much easier way. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to automate SFTP file transfers without scripting a…
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How to set up automated AS2 file transfers
Overview In an earlier quickstart guide to setting up an AS2 server, we featured a manual method for sending EDI messages. Because EDI transactions are best carried out automatically, we thought it would be…
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Tutorial for working with the FTP command line
This tutorial is for those who 1) understand the vulnerabilities of FTP but still want to learn how it’s used AND 2) prefer doing things on the FTP command line.
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How to auto upload files to a server from a local directory
In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to automatically upload files to a remote server as soon as the files are added into one of your MFT Server’s local directories.
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Monitoring a remote SFTP server for newly added files
Most users of JSCAPE MFT Server are already familiar with directory monitors. You often use it to monitor a directory for newly added files. Although that capability has helped immensely in automating a lot…
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How to push files from local to azure data lake based on an event
Azure Data Lake is an excellent option for storing massive amounts of unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data in the cloud. One of the queries we often get pertaining to it is how to push…
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How to automatically transfer files from SFTP to azure blob storage via trading partner
In a previous post, we taught you how to automatically transfer files from SFTP to Azure Blob Storage using a JSCAPE MFT Server network storage object. This time, we’ll show you how to do…
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How to automatically transfer files from SFTP to azure blob storage via network storage
Let’s say you have trading partners who can only transfer files to you via SFTP. Incidentally, you also happen to have an account on Azure Blob Storage and you prefer to store those files…
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How to use amazon s3 as storage for your MFT server
Overview A couple of weeks ago, we compared the advantages and disadvantages of using Amazon S3 and local storage as file storage system for JSCAPE MFT Server. For those who want to try storing…
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Customising the web user interface of your HTTP/S file transfer service
When you first launch your web file transfer service on JSCAPE MFT Server, you’ll notice that the web user interface has the JSCAPE branding starting from the login screen and continuing inside. You can…
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How to enable anonymous file uploads on your web file transfer server
Not everyone using your web file transfer server needs to have a user account. There can be instances when it’s perfectly fine for a user to just carry out an anonymous file upload. Meaning,…
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How to set up SSL client authentication
Overview People who use SSL/TLS to secure their online transactions/file transfers are mostly only familiar with two of its security functions: 1. That it can encrypt data in transit and 2. That it can…
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How to install an SFTP server on windows
Because Microsoft Windows doesn’t have a secure file transfer protocol server built in, we’ve put together a simple and easy-to-follow tutorial on how to install an SFTP server on Windows. The SFTP server we’ll…
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How to configure an SFTP-to-S3 file transfer
Many businesses use Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to transfer data between business units or to trading partners. With the growing adoption of cloud solutions, it makes sense to leverage the cloud to enhance…
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Install A Linux SFTP Server Via Command Line And Configure Via Web UI
Overview Let’s say you want to install an SSH FTP server (SFTP) on a Linux machine devoid of a GUI. However, after installation, you don’t want to configure it (add users, create keys, enable…
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How to copy files from azure blob storage to AWS s3
There are several possible reasons why you might want to copy files from Azure Blob Storage to AWS S3 (or vise versa). Maybe you want to migrate from one cloud to another. Maybe you…
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How to download multiple files from azure blob storage
All this time, you’ve been uploading loads upon loads of files onto your Azure Blob Storage container. But now, you have this workflow that will need some of those files on a monthly basis.…
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How to copy files to azure blob storage on a predefined schedule
For today’s tutorial, we’re going to show you how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server so that it will copy files from a local directory to Azure Blob Storage on a predefined schedule.
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Upload files to azure blob storage with FTP/S
A lot of automated business processes out there use FTP or FTPS to upload data to a server. What if most of it is unstructured data like videos, images, and audio files, and, instead…
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How to import & export user accounts
Last time, we taught you how to copy users from one JSCAPE MFT Server instance to another using the Promote feature. That’s the easiest way to copy users if you have a network connection…
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How to copy users from one MFT server to another
In JSCAPE MFT Server version 12.1 and higher, server administrators can already take advantage of easier ways of copying user accounts from one JSCAPE MFT Server instance to another. They can now use either…
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Using AES-256 to encrypt files you upload to your s3 trading partner
Files you upload to an Amazon S3 trading partner through JSCAPE MFT Server are normally stored in plaintext. If you want to encrypt those files to minimize the risk of a data breach, one…
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Sync windows folder with AWS s3 bucket
In previous posts, we taught you how to set up an Agent service and trading partner. We also taught you how to install an agent on a remote Windows host devoid of any file…
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Using AWS KMS to encrypt files you upload to your s3 trading partner
Files you upload to an Amazon S3 trading partner through JSCAPE MFT Server are normally stored in plaintext. If you want to encrypt those files to minimize the risk of a data breach, one…
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Install MFT Server agents on Linux hosts
Last time, we taught you how to install a JSCAPE MFT Server Agent on a remote Windows host with no file transfer service. But what if that remote host is a Linux machine? This…
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How to install MFT server agents on windows
Time to continue our tutorial on using JSCAPE MFT Server Agents. If you’ve been following our recent blog posts, you know that agents offer an easy way of exchanging files with hosts that don’t…
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How to set up an agent service & trading partner
As discussed in our previous post, JSCAPE MFT Server now gives you the capability to perform automated data transfers with hosts with no file transfer service. If you read that post, you know this…
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How to copy data from azure to AWS s3
If your business stores data in multiple cloud storage solutions, chances are you’ve already encountered many instances when you had to transfer data from one cloud solution to another. In this post, you’ll learn…
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How to sync a remote FTP server to s3
In a previous post, we taught you how to mirror an FTP/S service running on JSCAPE MFT Server to an Amazon S3 bucket folder. You can set up a similar process using any remote…
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How to mirror a FTP server to s3 storage
If your FTP/S service runs on JSCAPE MFT Server, it’s possible to mirror files stored in that FTP server to an Amazon S3 bucket folder. We’ll show you how to do that in this…
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How to monitor SFTP directories & download files
In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to monitor directories on a remote SFTP server and then download any new files on a periodic basis.
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Using a remote WebDAV service as network storage for your MFT server
One advantage of using JSCAPE MFT Server as your file transfer server is that it’s so easy to extend the storage capacity of your user accounts to one or more remote services and storage…
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How to migrate the JSCAPE MFT server between windows hosts
Some of the most common questions we get at our Help Desk revolves around how to migrate an existing JSCAPE MFT Server instance from one host to another. One of the easiest ways to…
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How to transfer files uploaded to an FTP/S server to an amazon s3 bucket
Let’s say you have an FTP or FTPS server and you want to transfer files uploaded to it to an AWS S3 bucket. You can do that with just a few clicks if your…
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How to use windows SMB share as network storage
When a user uploads files via FTP/S, SFTP, HTTP/S, or any supported file transfer protocol to JSCAPE MFT Server, those files don’t have to be stored on the same machine as that server. Instead,…
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How to schedule an AS2 file transfer
In a previous post on automated AS2 file transfers, we showed you how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server so that it would monitor a directory for newly added files and then, each time a…
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How to test SFTP connectivity to remote hosts
Let’s say you’re trying to connect with a remote SFTP host, perhaps one of your own SFTP servers or one owned by one of your trading partners. While there are tools like nmap and…
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How to enable an AFTP service in your server
JSCAPE’s Accelerated File Transfer Protocol or AFTP service is the perfect solution for organizations looking to achieve high speeds in file transfers suffering from poor network conditions like high latency and packet loss. In…
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How to move downloaded files on a trading partner
Let’s say a trading partner wants you to move files you download from their server to a designated archive folder on that same server. This is a B2B file transfer, so it has to…
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How to ignore specific errors in exception handling
In a previous post, we taught you how to set up triggers that catch and handle trigger errors thrown by other triggers. Now, earlier this week, we received a query from a customer who…
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An easier way of exchanging AS2 trading partner credentials
AS2 is no doubt the best option for carrying out B2B exchanges of EDI documents. However, compared to general purpose file transfer protocols like FTP/S or SFTP, it’s known to be considerably more difficult…
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Monitor & respond to copy file events
In a previous post, we showed how you can monitor Move File events and respond to them with an appropriate trigger action(s). You can perform these types of operations on Copy File events as…
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How to monitor moved files without using directory monitors
There are times when, as part of a business process, you’d want to monitor files that have been moved from one directory to another. Once a particular file is moved, you might want to…
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How to broadcast emails to trading partners
Like the Users module, the Trading Partners module also has a way of sending broadcast emails to Trading Partners. This can be useful in cases where you might want to notify trading partners about…
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How to send an email broadcast to users of your JSCAPE MFT server
The Users module on JSCAPE MFT Server includes a feature that enables you to send out an email broadcast to all users in a domain. This can be useful in cases where you might…
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Introducing the redesigned trigger action workflow
Last time, we introduced you the new Trigger Conditions Expression Builder, one of the new features that came with the recently released JSCAPE MFT Server v12. But that’s not the only new thing you’ll…
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Introducing the new trigger conditions expression builder
In later versions of JSCAPE MFT Server, you’ll find a graphical Expression Builder in the Trigger Conditions step of the Triggers module. It’s designed to make writing trigger conditions much easier and faster. Let…