MSMQ from the plumber's mate

[[Updated 6th February, 2009]] Simple answer - you don't. MSMQ is part of the operating system so you cannot install a different version to the one that came with it: Version of MSMQ Operating system 1.0 Windows NT4, Windows...

Download today! I've had a quick look in the database to see what MSMQ fixes are "scheduled to be included with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2" and here's the list of PUBLIC patches: 830953 FIX: Applications that use Message Queuing 3.0 and...

This is an extension to last year's blog about Insufficient Resources . Item 6 covers when the MSMQ message is too large. The first thing that needs to be mentioned is that we need to distinguish between the size of the message and the size of the...

If you have a question about MSMQ then you can't do much better than posting it on Microsoft's newsgroups. The USENET names for the newsgroups are: microsoft.public.msmq.interop microsoft.public.msmq.programming microsoft.public.msmq.deployment...

The Triggers Admin utility (TrigAdm.exe) helps you manage MSMQ triggers from the command line. Currently there are versions available for: MSMQ 1.0/2.0 (Windows NT4, Windows 2000) MSMQ 3.0 (Windows XP) MSMQ 3.0 (Windows Server 2003) but...

Not MSMQ-related but something that has irritated me. When I upgraded my laptop last year to Vista, I had to fiddle with it to get Hibernation working, as documented in: 920730 How to disable and re-enable hibernation on a computer that is running...

It's nice to finally see Microsoft announce the latest addition to the Xbox 360 range - the Elite. Basically it's a black console that comes with a larger 120GB hard drive and built-in HDMI. To me it seems a natural step in the evolution (not revolution...

"Can I have 1,000s of MSMQ queues?" Yes, of course you can. "Is it a good idea to?" Maybe not. The queues themselves do not take up many resources: In memory - each ACTIVE queue is about 400 bytes (over half of which is kernel memory). ...

I need to start investigating this technology as more and more of my customers are starting to introduce it into their MSMQ mix. Here are a couple of useful Blog posts to start me off: MSMQ on Windows Mobile 5.0 How to get logging on MSMQ on...

For years it has been a pain to collect network traces for Microsoft PSS to analyse. Either it was never easy to work out how to install the Network Monitor that may (or may not) have come with the operating system or, if you didn't have SMS, you had...