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MSMQ from the plumber's mate
Product Roadmap for Host Integration Server
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Published this month at Microsoft Connect : Product Roadmap for Host Integration Server To help you manage existing systems and plan future deployments of Host Integration Server, we provide the following product roadmap. Host Integration Server...
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MSMQ Adapters in BizTalk
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Browsing around I found Eldar Musayev's " Short history of MSMQ Adapters in BizTalk ". It's a few years old now but I don't think much will change for BizTalk 2009 but I won't know for sure until it releases.
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What to do if MSMQ has problems loading storage files.
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Back in the Windows 2000 era, a common problem was how to recover when MSMQ was allowed to build up over 1.7GB of messages. On startup, MSMQ would try and map into memory all the 4MB files in the System32\MSMQ\Storage directory. The process' virtual memory...
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Difference between Path name and Format name when accessing MSMQ queues
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For beginners to MSMQ development, the fact that there are FIVE ways of addressing an MSMQ queue is a real pitfall. Many hours will be lost trying to work out why a seemingly perfect address keeps returning errors. From MSDN: Referencing a Queue...
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Sweet stuff in Windows 7 and IE 8
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over 3 years ago
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Working inside Microsoft means you hear a lot of noise about new products. Sometimes it's like a background roar and you need to block it out so you can focus on your job. To reach people like me (the "yeah, whatever" group), there's compulsory on...
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How to be an Italian programmer. Lesson #1
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Working in Europe, I see a lot of programming code from non-English speakers. One of my Italian colleagues let me in on one of their secrets: "Wherever you see a variable named "pippo", there is an Italian developer." From Wikipedia : ...
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Technical humour
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over 3 years ago
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This went round at work and I just had to share: Q: How long is a piece of string? A: string.length
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MSMQ and non-local storage
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A number of companies make use of storage devices that are not physically attached to the machine using them, such as storage area networks (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS), as well as more exotic geographically dispersed solutions. The question...
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Get the right hardware if you want to virtualise a Windows 2008 Server cluster
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over 3 years ago
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Today has been an expensive lesson in the need to keep your hardware up to date - chucking in extra RAM and bigger drives is NOT always enough. The plan was to create a virtualised Windows 2008 Server cluster. I had experience on clustering Windows...
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A novel way of forwarding MSMQ messages
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On the MSMQ newsgroups , Chris asked: "I'm dropping messages into a queue on a local machine. Is there a way to easily send them to a remote server queue when they get received from the initial queue?" Frank Boyne, our favourite MVP, proposed the...
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Setting up MSMQ with multiple instances of Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)
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The Windows Server Core support team has produced a useful blog post that explains how to understand and implement multiple instances of MSDTC, a feature new to Windows Server 2008. How to Configure Multiple Instances of Distributed Transaction...
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Knowledge Base articles move to TechNet and MSDN
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over 3 years ago
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Microsoft is moving its Developer & IT Professional primary support content (also known as Knowledge Base – or KB - articles) from http://support.microsoft.com Web site to MSDN and TechNet, respectively. This move is to ensure that Developers and...
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64kb limit on the size of MSMQ Multicast Messages
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over 3 years ago
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When Windows 2003 came out, Microsoft introduced the ability to broadcast messages to any machines that were listening back. All you had to do was send out a message on a particular port and IP address and any client that had set up a Multicast queue...
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MSMQ writes data to storage in 4 kilobyte chunks.
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over 3 years ago
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Saw a question on the MSMQ newsgroups the other day where someone had noticed that tiny MSMQ messages were causing the same amount of disk activity regardless of size and asked to know why. The reason is that MSMQ messages won't be written to disk...
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Why does MSMQ complain "not located on a valid NTFS drive"?
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over 3 years ago
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Yesterday I discussed changing the storage location for MSMQ. While testing out the user interface with Windows Server 2008 today, I found some strange messages that I thought I would share. Here's the normal Storage tab that you expect to see on all...
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Changing the MSMQ Storage location
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Some people have the situation where they have set up MSMQ using defaults and now find that the storage disk, usually the system drive C:, has insufficient space for the message volume they are seeing. If there are a number of these machines, or maybe...
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Optimising performance of MSMQ over HTTP
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Here are a couple of registry values you can tweak if you are sending messages over a high latency network like the Internet. The first two are for setting the TCP receive window which is the number of bytes a sender can transmit without receiving...
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Windows 2003 service pack 1 approaching end of support
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Now seems a good time to mention that support for Windows 2003 service pack 1 retires in 68 days on the 14th of April 2009. Everybody already on service pack 2 doesn't need to panic for a few years yet as t here's been no news of Windows 2003 sp3....
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"Will there be a 64-bit version of the DLC protocol included in Host Integration Server?"
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over 3 years ago
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Simple answer - "No". There is currently no 64-bit version of the Microsoft DLC network stack and one will not be developed for the forthcoming Host Integration Server 2009 product. You should instead be looking at using IP-DLC as IBM has been moving...
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The UK TechNet Team are Twittering
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over 3 years ago
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Here's a plug for my TechNet colleagues here in the UK who have just launched their ASKTechNetUK Twitter . If you want to ask a question about TechNet or Microsoft, or just fancy a general chin wag , then ask the lovely people in the UK TechNet team...
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New MSMQ 4.0 functionality that you may not have read about in Windows 2008.
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MSMQ 4.0 has been around for a little while now - Windows Vista's 2nd birthday was last week - so the main improvements and additions are well known now : Subqueues Handling Poison Messages Transactional Remote Receive Application-specific...
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