As announced on the Microsoft Help 3.0 Team Blog , MSDN has a interface for those who require something with the same content but a little lighter on the interface. Here's their demo (hosted on YouTube. Sheesh, guys, there are alternatives ). ...

[[Corrected December 17th, 2009, with input from Jolie Boushey]] This isn't going to be easy. There are two major obstacles to cope with Private queues are, by definition, not published to Active Directory so their properties cannot be found...

Normally licensing questions are very few and far between which is why I don't think I've posted about the subject before. On the MSMQ newsgroups, someone posted that they had: "observed that the number of users capable of connecting to such queue...

We've just found a problem with Multicasting on POSReady 2009 which I thought I would share. POSReady is an embedded implementation of Windows XP service pack 3 but the setup of components like MSMQ is different so this blog post may not necessarily be...

One thing that developers find frustrating is wasting time working out where messages have gone and having a mismatch between the transactional types of the messages and queues is a common cause. Sending to remote queues always succeeds because the...

Quick clarification point to prevent confusion: MSMQ 5.0 means Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 MSMQ 4.0 means Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 'R1' Currently there doesn't seem to be much to worry about - business as usual for most...

[[Edited 11th, 13th, 15th January, 2010]] To specify an IP address in a registry value, there are usually two ways: Type the dotted notation IP address directly (STRING values) Convert the IP address to hex (DWORD values) The dotted notation...

I received an emailed question about this combination and thought I would do some research to see if there was anything of interest to share. First thing to cover is that each Terminal Server client does NOT get their own instance of MSMQ. The server...

Sometimes you can have a problem where you can't remotely receive messages from another machine but don't know where to start troubleshooting. Normally you will get something informative back as an exception, such as: 0xC00E0025 (MQ_ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED...

Next week I'm planning to " Ramp Up " my developer skills using a free, online, community-based learning program hosted on MSDN . There are a number of tracks to follow - not surprisingly I'm going to try out the Developer Basics. As the site says, you...

I've just responded to a newsgroup poster asking how to avoid using MSDTC on a cluster. Their applications weren't using distributed transactions and they didn't want to have to provide another shared disk just for MSDTC. On a cluster, there is only...

My colleague over in Paris, Jean-Pierre Auconie, has lovingly crafted a BizTalk support tool that you may find useful. From the FAQ: Q: What is the purpose of MBV ? A: The goal of MBV is to retrieve the maximum amount of information from a BizTalk...