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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 : ...

This went round at work and I just had to share: Q: How long is a piece of string? A: string.length

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...