MSMQ from the plumber's mate

Some people have found a problem where Active Directory contains too many MSMQ certificates for a particular user account, usually if that's the one they use for installing all their MSMQ machines. As you know, MSMQ uses certificates for authentication...

MSMQ has moved out of private corporate LANs and now companies send messages over the Internet. Data security should therefore be top of the to-do list for anyone wanting to follow this route. The first consideration is what do you actually need to...

If you are trying to get a queued component working and see an event like: Event Type: Error Event Source: COM+ Event Category: (104) Event ID: 4811 Date: 19/05/2007 Time: 11:12:13 User: N/A Computer: COMSERVER1 Description: Server Application...

Just a quick note about how MSMQ reports message size. If you look in the Computer Management snap-in you will see a column marked "size". This is not the message size; it is instead the message BODY size. I have already populated the queue with...

One common misconception is that because a queue exists in Computer Management you should be able to monitor it. From the MSMQ FAQ (link on the left): 5.10 .... And why is it that I cannot see all my queues in System Monitor? ... a queue is...

Reading my colleague's blog I noticed links to useful pages on MSDN: HRESULT Values Win32 Error Codes NTSTATUS Values As you probably know, HRESULT values from MSMQ have the format 0xC00Exxxx. In binary the first 4 bytes that is 1100...

There's a new KB article out (although the hotfix was produced last year): FIX: The Lsass.exe process may use a high percentage of CPU resources when you run Message Queuing on a domain controller with global catalog The following is taken from...

Every few months (or longer) I need to set up a test MSMQ-MQSeries Bridge environment. And every time I forget the cardinal rule. "Remember that IBM MQSeries is Case-Sensitive". Yet again, last night, I had to go through the various management...