Working with secure FTP in PowerShell

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Working with secure FTP in PowerShell | Chad’s Blog

Recently learned a new way to work with secure FTP in PowerShell

https://chadbaldwin.net/2021/11/01/sftp-in-powershell.html

[paschott]

Good overview on getting started. I'm going through this right now for one of the processes we need to automate. The "winscp" module is definitely easier than calling the DLLs.

[chadbaldwin]

@paschott nice! Just an FYI though, like I mentioned in the post, I don't recommend this for a production process. It's a 3rd party built tool, so you're relying on them using a legitimate copy of the WinSCP DLL/EXE, and the module does not appear to be in active development.

But I think it's great for proof of concept / draft work before moving into something more complicated, like C#.

For a production process, if it needed to be in PowerShell, then I would recommend doing it the official way as shown by WinSCP, and that is to import the WinSCP DLL file as a new type, and work with it that way.

[johnwmail]

Nice, thanks for share.