New Post: Handling passwords with &

I tried like that. Still getting the same error. Please see the encoded xml. Do I need to change any settings in the PropertyGroup ?

Information: Importing bindings "C:\TFS\DFS-Dev\BizTalk\JMFamily\2013R2\DFS.Transmission.Venture\DFS.Transmission.Venture.Deployment\PortBindings.xml" into application "DFS.Transmission.Venture" in BizTalk configuration database (server="ALPDSTMCS00166", database="BizTalkMgmtDb_R2")...

    Error: Failed to update binding information.
    Invalid or malformed XML data.

<TransportTypeData><CustomProps><AdapterConfig vt="8">&lt;Config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"&gt;&lt;host&gt;ftp.jmfamily.com&lt;/host&gt;&lt;password&gt;M0r31s&0s&lt;/password&gt;&lt;port&gt;22&lt;/port&gt;&lt;applySecurityPermissions&gt;&lt;/applySecurityPermissions&gt;&lt;user&gt;dfs_test_ftp&lt;/user&gt;&lt;identityfile /&gt;&lt;remotepath&gt;/HOME/DropOffDev/Venture/incoming/&lt;/remotepath&gt;&lt;remotefile&gt;%SourceFileName%&lt;/remotefile&gt;&lt;remotetempfile /&gt;&lt;verifyFileSize&gt;false&lt;/verifyFileSize&gt;&lt;connectionlimit&gt;10&lt;/connectionlimit&gt;&lt;trace&gt;false&lt;/trace&gt;&lt;errorThreshold&gt;10&lt;/errorThreshold&gt;&lt;proxyserver /&gt;&lt;proxyport&gt;80&lt;/proxyport&gt;&lt;proxyusername /&gt;&lt;uri&gt;SFTP://ftp.abc.com:22/HOME/DropOffDev/Venture/incoming/%SourceFileName%&lt;/uri&gt;&lt;/Config&gt;</AdapterConfig></CustomProps></TransportTypeData>

Thanks ,
Ram