Task Factory is a software product created by Pragmatic Works. It provides many custom SSIS components which help developers creating SSIS packages become more efficient. And as we all know, when we are more efficient, we are more productive. In this nugget, I’m going to show you how to use the SFTP Task to securely perform various file transfer tasks such as download or upload a file to a remote server. You can also do things like download a complete directory, remove files and create directories, just to name a few.

Here are the key features and details from PragmaticWorks.com about this task:

Brings encrypted security to FTP within SSIS. Many companies transmit files using FTP as a transmission method for highly sensitive files. The Task Factory Secure FTP Task will allow you to transmit files over most common secure channels to your partners safely.

• Used to interact with a secure ftp site
• Supports SSH, Implicit SFTP and Explicit SFTP
• Supports HTTP, SOCKS4, SOCKS4a and SOCKS5 proxies
• Supports all actions provided by native FTP task

Check out this quick video to find out more.

More Videos in this Series:

• Advanced Email and SMS Task
• File Properties task
• Terminator Destination
• Address Parse Transform
• Compression Task
• Data Cleansing Transform
• Data Validation Transform
• Email Source and Delete Email Task
• SFTP Task
• Surrogate Key Transform

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