MSMQ from the plumber's mate

Just logged my first bug for the Host Integration Server 2009 beta (in fact the first public bug!) and it was a piece of cake. The Connect website is pretty minimalist for providing bug reports or - more accurately - feedback. Just sign in with a Passport...

[[24th March, 2009 - Updated to reflect NO 64-bit support for the MSMQ-MQseries Bridge]] Beta news Last weekend (November 22nd) Microsoft posted the beta of Host Integration Server 2009. Microsoft Host Integration Server 2009 offers key enabling...

Sometimes products just appear out on the wild without any publicity. Prime example is this management pack for MSMQ 4.0 which came out a few months ago. Please download and deploy: Windows Server 2008 Message Queuing Management Pack for Microsoft...

At the moment BizTalk Server 2006 (the current release) is not supported on Windows Server 2008 which means it cannot make use of the new features in MSMQ 4.0 . The version that will run on the latest server operating system was announced back in September...

The scenario is that you have a migration plan to move all your existing Windows 2000 servers in your domain to a newer Windows operating system. Or just moving to new hardware - the problems are the same. If you make use of MSMQ in Active Directory...

[[I touched on Outgoing Queues last week so thought I would add some more detail. This post has been in my draft folder for a while so may have some duplicate information to last time.]] MSMQ has a dilemma - what to expose of its inner works and what...

One down-side of enabling Routing Support for MSMQ is that you need to be an Enterprise Administrator to install it, as can be seen from this Technet article: Installation permissions Message Queuing computer Permission level required...

A really common request is to load-balance MSMQ, either to "scale out" (adding more machines, as opposed to "scale up" by enhancing the existing server) or for high availability. For load-balancing to work, the traffic must be stateless as there is...

For years without end I've been typing NET STOP MSMQ {{twiddle thumbs}} NET START MSMQ without realising there has always been a way to get rid of the wasted time in the middle - you can concatenate the commands! NET STOP MSMQ &&...

If you are using public queues and addressing them with path names then you need to ensure the system clock on the sending machine is in synch with that on the domain controllers. This is because kerberos authentication will fail if you let enough gap...

If you try to install MSMQ through "Windows Features" in Vista or Windows Server 2008 but receive an error message pop-up ("An error has occurred. Not all of the features were successfully changed.") then you may need to check the integrity of your installation...

For a while now, Virtual Server on my Windows Server 2003 box has been broken. I'd browse to the website but would always get "Service Unavailable" when everything looked configured fine in IIS Manager. Because I was busy, I always moved to my other machine...

Simple answer - you don't. Outgoing queues are dynamically created by the MSMQ queue manager when your application is sending messages. This is MSMQ's built-in store-and-forward mechanism in operation. The messages are stored in the local outgoing...