MSMQ from the plumber's mate

I'm now into full swing looking at MSMQ 4.0 on Windows Server 2008 using Virtual Server. I haven't got round to installing 2008 on my 64-bit laptop and desktop yet but maybe in the summer sometime when customers are on vacation I'll have the time. ...

Frank Boyne , 5 star MVP , posted a great response to a question on the MSMQ newsgroups which I felt was worth reiterating. Basically someone wanted to check if a private queue on a remote machine existed before they sent a message to it. The problem...

So you want to test out the routing of MSMQ messages through your enterprise? Sounds simple enough - go to the Properties of the machine to be tested and choose the Diagnostics tab. Strange, the options to send test messages and track routing are...

I noticed in the newsgroups that someone wanted to know how they could remove the PGM protocol from their machines to reduce their exposure to attacks over the network. In Windows 2003 and XP, this protocol is installed when Message Queuing is selected...

Microsoft PSS might ask you to change the logging level of MSMQ (in Windows XP, 2003) when helping you troubleshoot a support case. The script for this is in the appendix of the MSMQ FAQ but sometimes copy/pasting the lines to a text file generates...

In the past, a clustered MSMQ service could only listen on one IP address. This was because MSMQ depended on the network name which in turn could only depend on a single address. In Windows 2008 the address dependency has been changed and now you can...

There's one thing with the documentation/help for installing MSMQ that confuses me - it talks about the Active Directory permissions required for the logged in account but I've noticed setup doesn't really care. For an independent client at least, all...

... hop over to Chris Romp's blog where he has put together one for developers which he will try and keep up to date for you.

The Super Early Bird offer ends July 31st so don't leave it too late. Hopefully I'll be able to help out in the Ask The Experts booth like I did last year. If so, please drop by and say hello - I'll even try and answer your question too!

After a week of commuting to London and back, I've finally finished the Essential BizTalk Server course at developmentor . Definitely worth the time as my knowledge of the product has increased manyfold as a result - not quite a divide-by-zero increase...