MSMQ from the plumber's mate

This sounds obvious but make sure port 80 is open on the firewalls and routers between sender and receiver. It's easy to get bogged down in trying to work out why MSMQ isn't sending, such as checking if acknowledgements are getting lost and so on....

There is a new hotfix released for MSMQ 3.0 on Windows XP to correct a problem where the certificate service provider name was not being written correctly to the message: FIX: A Message Queuing 3.0 message is rejected on the receiver when you send...

You can quickly collect this from the command prompt using WMIC (as long as you are using an operating system newer than Windows 2000). This command-line utility (Wmic.exe) is used to access Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and saves you having...

As I've probably discussed before, MSMQ does not perform garbage collection on its message storage files very often - every 6 hours or on service startup are the defaults. You can, though, run a script to ask the MSMQ service not to wait around. This...

If you are sending messages over HTTP then there is a chance you may be behind a proxy server which prevents you making a direct connection to the destination server. This is no big deal - Internet-enabled products such as Internet Explorer and MSMQ...

Luckily this isn't difficult. The address needs to be modified just like using Internet Explorer to browse a web site that's listening on a different port so just insert the port number after the server name. For example, here's the address where the...

In my new role as BizTalk support engineer, I'm just picking up the easier problems to avoid drowning too early. One of the first requests was information about upgrading BizTalk Server 2006 (which I'll call "R1" for convenience) to BizTalk Server 2006...