My Milanese colleague, Raffael , has blogged about his experiences troubleshooting MSMQ on Windows Mobile devices, in this instance focussing on installation and configuration. Installing the right CAB Flushing the registry Using MSMQ within...

One thing to note when using WCF and MSMQ in workgroup mode is that there is no SID sent in a security header: 952570 A Message Queuing message does not include the security header when you use WCF to send the message in Workgroup mode This isn...

The changes in security between Windows XP and Windows Vista have thrown up one or two problems for MSMQ. Take this one: You cannot send or receive encrypted Message Queuing messages after you upgrade a computer from Windows XP to Windows Vista ...

Important note about performing remote transactional reads (introduced in MSMQ 4.0) - both the machine reading the queue and the machine hosting the queue have to be running MSMQ 4.0, not just the reader. 929788 Error message when you perform a...

Here's a problem that only affects Windows Vista and MSMQ 4.0, resolved in the recent service pack: 929787 M essage Queuing 4.0 may not send a message to a remote public queue if the dNSHostName attribute on the Active Directory object of the destination...

Looks like testing of SP1 may not have been as thorough as it could have been. Basically uninstalling the Vista service pack deletes one of the key internal queues that MSMQ uses and you will need to manually recreate it. The Message Queueing service...

If you plan to run Vista SP1 or Windows 2008 within Virtual PC or Virtual Server then you should install the new updated versions (released yesterday): Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 with 948515: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1 does not support...

There is a new KB out for installing MSMQ on a Windows Server 2008 domain controller. 931659 The Message Queuing service may not be installed or may not start after you install Message Queuing with the "Active Directory Integrated" option or the...

May seems to be MSMQ KB article month and there's still another half-dozen in the pipeline. This one is so tiny I might as well include all of it in this post: A clustered storage resource that does not have a drive letter may not be compatible...

Here is a collection of approaches I've pulled together from my archives for telling if MSMQ is installed without being able to physically go and bring up Computer Management to check yourself. Please feel free to let me know if you have developed any...

There's a new KnowledgeBase article out that reinforces the need for you to ensure you allow for replication delays when installing MSMQ with the "Active Directory Integrated" option. The problem has been around for years but only now properly mentioned...

Public queues, as opposed to private queues, don't delete as quickly as you'd expect. Sometimes it can take a full quarter of an hour before the queue you've just deleted finally disappears. Looking at: Message Queuing (MSMQ): Directory Service...

Sometimes you restart MSMQ as part of your troubleshooting but it seems to make no difference and you end up having to reboot the machine instead to fix a problem. The reason is that MSMQ has layers (just like Shrek). On top is the queue manager...

I'm slightly embarrassed to be sharing this content with you as its dated June 2007 and I've only just noticed that its there. There are two main blocks of content. The first is the Message Queuing Troubleshooting Guide which contains two sections...

If you have the MSMQ service up and running but all of the following classes are missing: Win32_PerfRawdata_MSMQ_MSMQQueue Win32_PerfRawdata_MSMQ_MSMQService Win32_PerfRawdata_MSMQ_MSMQSession then you have a problem either with WMI or...