MSMQ from the plumber's mate

One change to MSMQ that I've just read about is a lowering of the default storage quotas. MSMQ 3.0 introduced default quotas to help customers from flooding their systems with messages - something that happened too frequently on unmonitored MSMQ 2...

By default, MSMQ is not fully functional on a Windows CE device. There is a registry value BinaryEnabled at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSMQ\SimpleClient that is set, by default, to "No". This means that MSMQ (the binary protocol) can...

For the last week or so, my machine has been regularly trying to install the MS07-040 security bulletin without success. The update logs were decidely unhelpful in a "your problem could be caused by anything" sort of way. Now, though, it's important as...

Here's a simple case study for one way of troubleshooting MSMQ performance counters. The symptoms are that the MSMQ-specific counters are not visible and efforts to load them using LODCTR (as per KB article 936493 ) result in: Event Type: Error...