Ignite is where IT leaders come to find out what’s changing across Microsoft — what’s new in Azure, what’s coming in M365, where Entra is headed. Most of that is in the keynotes and breakouts. Some of it is on the floor of The Hub, and that’s where Files.com is, for a reason.
Microsoft covers a lot of file work — SharePoint for collaboration, OneDrive for personal storage, Azure Blob for object storage, Entra for identity — but none of it does managed file transfer. None of it onboards partners over SFTP, runs the scheduled drops and automation an EDI feed needs, or gives an auditor a full record of who touched what across outside partners. That work has belonged to IBM Sterling, GoAnywhere, MOVEit, and Axway — old servers that don’t fit a modern Microsoft shop.
Files.com is the modern, cloud answer, with built-in connections to SharePoint, OneDrive, Azure Blob, and Azure Files, plus Entra ID, Active Directory, Teams, Sentinel, Logic Apps, Power Automate, and Office for the Web. Twelve Microsoft integrations — by far the most we’ve built for any single vendor. Keep the Microsoft stack you already run, and add the file transfer, automation, and governance it was missing.
Three jobs Microsoft leaves open, and what Files.com fills in.
Get per-file audit logs, retention rules, and control over who outside the company can receive a file — for the SharePoint workflows that native sharing was never built to handle. Your team keeps working in SharePoint; IT gets the controls, without paying for Purview Premium.
SharePoint storage gets expensive fast for large files and archives. Files.com on Azure Blob costs a fraction per GB, and the data stays in your own Azure tenant. Move what doesn’t need to live in SharePoint, without changing how anyone works.
Files.com’s desktop apps show up as normal folders on Windows and Mac. Access follows Entra groups, and new users are added and removed automatically through SCIM. IT writes the rules once; everyone sees the folders they should and nothing else.
Files.com runs on top of the storage and identity you already have. The data stays in your Microsoft tenant; Files.com adds sign-in, permissions, the SFTP and FTPS protocols, automation, and the workflows you use with outside partners.
Connect SharePoint and OneDrive as folders inside Files.com. The content your team already works in shows up in one Files.com site, with SFTP and FTPS access plus governance and audit layered on top.
Connect Azure Blob Storage and Azure Files directly through Azure’s own APIs. The Azure Files connection is one almost no other managed file transfer product has — point Files.com at the storage you already moved to Azure and run partner exchange, scheduled drops, and automations on top of it.
Run sign-in for the whole platform through Microsoft Entra ID — SAML or OIDC single sign-on, automatic user provisioning over SCIM, access driven by Entra groups, and Conditional Access enforced. Files.com is already in the Entra app gallery.
Both have published Files.com integrations. Run the file-transfer step in a Logic App or Power Automate flow through Files.com instead of the flaky built-in FTP action, and that step gets real transfer workflows, partner channels, and automation. The file-moving logic moves out of the flow and into a system built for it.
Success and failure alerts post straight to Microsoft Teams, and you choose which events fire and where they go. Your security and ops teams get exactly the file-movement and automation alerts they want, in the channel they already work in.
File-movement events stream into Microsoft Sentinel in real time, right alongside the rest of your Microsoft security data. Your security team can alert on file activity and tie it to everything else it already watches.
Files.com sits on top of SharePoint, OneDrive, Azure Blob, and Azure Files and adds the parts Microsoft doesn’t. Sign-in through Entra instead of handing out raw access. Real permissions. The SFTP, FTPS, and WebDAV protocols Microsoft mostly doesn’t offer. GPG encrypt and decrypt, which Microsoft has no answer for. Plus automation and the workflows you run with outside partners.
Files.com runs great on Windows — the Agent and desktop app were built for it, not ported over from Linux. We’re the #1 managed file transfer vendor on Gartner Peer Insights, we hold SOC 2 Type II, a HIPAA BAA, and a GDPR DPA, and the audit trail is one an auditor will accept. If you’re rebuilding the file layer on top of your Microsoft stack, come find us on the floor.
Partner onboarding, governance, audit, storage cost — if you’re rebuilding the file layer on top of your Microsoft stack, start a free trial, hook up Entra, connect SharePoint and Azure Blob, and run a real partner exchange end to end.
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