MOVEit Top Tips

Content scanning causes a degree of nervousness among MOVEit administrators. It is performed by passing a file to an Anti-Virus/Data Loss Prevention engine using the ICAP protocol. The receiving engine then checks the file content and responds back to MOVEit, which in turn...

Keeping your MOVEit system in a tidy state is critical to its performance and the security it provides. Pro2col technicians can perform in-depth health checks for you, but there are some basic things that you can (and should) do to keep your system in tip-top condition. This top...

We are delighted to announce that we have received the Ipswitch Partner Award for File Transfer for the second time. It’s for achieving the highest revenue within the UK – one of several categories in the company’s annual EMEA Channel awards. We also picked up this accolade in...

One of the exciting new changes in MOVEit Automation 2018 is the expansion of the API to include REST processing. This is in addition to the existing COM and Java methods. It isn’t just a rewrite of the existing API, but includes new functionality that MOVEit Automation users...

MOVEit Automation 2018 was released on 4th April 2018, bringing a new host type into MOVEit Automation: The Amazon S3 connector. This new host is configurable using the web browser – the VB Admin tool can only display the host. Add a host in the same way as any other host type....

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) was introduced into MOVEit Transfer 2017. It gives users accessing via HTTPS an extra layer of security by generating a six-digit authentication code. This is provided to the end-user either by email, or the Google Authenticator app.

This MOVEit Top Tip describes how to use the monitor function and create Ipswitch Analytics report templates. It’s written by our MOVEit expert Richard Auger. Real Time View To view the status of transfers in (near) real time, click on the monitor option at the top left of the...

MOVEit Transfer (formerly MOVEit DMZ) has traditionally been installed in the demilitarised zone of the network, relying on the AES256 encrypted file system to protect the data at rest in the application. Whilst this suits a number of organisations, there are many security...

Sometimes in MOVEit Automation, a task will fail because a host is unavailable. This might be a temporary issue, or the host may have failed completely and you need to direct your traffic to another server in its place. This Top Tip shows you how implementing redundancy for...

Many administrators connect to MOVEit Automation (previously MOVEit Central) by first connecting to the MOVEit server, and then simply launching the Admin Console to connect to Localhost. This unfortunately means that all activities inside MOVEit are attributed to “A Local...

One of the less obvious areas of functionality in MOVEit Transfer is the Webpost. Webposts allow end users to anonymously submit information into MOVEit Transfer without uploading a file. Instead, information that the end user enters into various fields is created as the file...

MOVEit transfer allows you to delegate permissions to perform certain activities to some users in order to free up the MOVEit administrators. You do this by creating