This may well be already known but it took us a little while to figure out. When using the BizTalk FTP adapter to write files to a Unix FTP server you may have to ensure the recipient of those files has the right to read/delete them. When you ftp files, the master ftp configuration file determines the permissions that those files will have. You can set the permissions yourself by using a version of the umask command in the Before Put property of your FTP send port. e.g. site umask 000 This will give ......