MSMQ from the plumber's mate

If you try to send authenticated messages between machines in different forests, you will see them end up in the Transactional Dead Letter Queue (assuming you enabled source journaling). This is because authentication uses certificates that are stored...

Saw an interesting problem today which I thought was worth sharing. A customer was trying to send some large messages from one machine to another but, even though the destination had not yet reached its storage quota and there should have been enough...

What the question is really asking is whether or not you can install MSMQ on a cluster without a traditional shared disk and make use of the Majority Node Set (MNS) method of keeping disks in sync instead. Looking at a selection of points from this...

This bulletin came out yesterday and only applies to Windows 2000. If you are still running systems using MSMQ 2.0 then please download and deploy the hotfix at your earliest convenience. This KB discusses the hotfix (build 5.0.0.807): 951071...

dcpromo /forceremoval as featured in: Domain controllers do not demote gracefully when you use the Active Directory Installation Wizard to force demotion in Windows Server 2003 and in Windows 2000 Server Life must have been painful for...

Windows isn't always WYSIWYG and sometimes it will pretend. I'm talking here about how different characters are displayed on the screen to make the layout look nice. If you are typing away in Word then you can sometimes spot hyphens, for example, being...

[[Thanks to Brian Dowds for the content]] On a mobile device, you may occasionally see something like "Can't read file \Temp\$localhost$ - {some GUID}.iq, incorrect format." in MSLOGFILE.TXT. If you stop the MSMQ service and delete the queue file...