MSMQ from the plumber's mate

When you try to install MSMQ, you may encounter this sort of error message: Error Code: 0x42C Error Description: The dependency service or group failed to start. On the face of it, this should just be a case of checking the usual suspects that...

The first part is easy enough but the second is tricky. For example, here's how to create a public queue with 'Old School' VBScript: set iq=CreateObject("MSMQ.MSMQQueueInfo") iq.PathName=”machine\queue” iq.Label=”The queue” iq.Create (IsTransactional...

One of my colleagues in support has ventured under the MSMQ spotlight with a post about a permissions/UAC problem preventing installation on Windows 2008: MSMQ installation on Windows 2008 fails with error "Attempt to install Message Queuing Server...

As you may know, MSMQ has internal error logging enabled by default and outputs to a file called MSMQLOG.BIN in the %windir%\debug directory. The file, as the extension hints at, is in a binary format (unlike MSMQ 2.0) and so cannot be read by simply...

This is one of those horrible surprises - the system has been working fine for months; someone needs to restart the machine; everything disappears! Developers notice that Transactional messages never disappear so it must be a problem with Non-Transactional...

The newsgroups can be an excellent source of information, especially when someone replying to a question goes far beyond where they could have finished. Take the following question posted today on microsoft.public.hiserver.general : Dave wrote:...

Just noticed this 3rd party project: MSMQ Studio The author, Kjell-Åke Andersson , describes it as follows: "This tool allows you to manages MSMQ queues on local and remote computers. Send and recieve messages just like you were using Outlook...

It used to be so simple years ago. If you were a Microsoft 'shop' then you used MSMQ and, if not, you ran IBM's MQSeries. Now everyone and their dog seems to have a messaging product, especially out in the "Cloud". Who would have thought Amazon - purveyor...

Browsing the Internet, I found the [ Teknoglot ] blog which mentions that the MSMQ 3.0 Management Pack has been updated . No details in the guide with the update as to what has been changed but probably worth downloading the latest build (24 April...

A post today on [ Teknoglot ] reports that the MSMQ Management Pack may return "Subscript Out of Range" when trying to discover public queues on servers that don't have any. I'll see if I can repro this and raise a bug with the product group.

Interesting post on the Motley Queüe blog from April about the new Active Directory Recycle Bin feature introduced in Windows 2008 R2. Discusses what you can (or cannot) do when you have lost Active Directory objects, such as MSMQ Public Queues, either...

Yes, I know it's a bit late but I didn't realise it had been Released To Web until Windows Update prompted me to install it today. From The Windows Blog : "Consumers with Windows Vista SP1 can visit the Microsoft Download Center or use Windows...

You too can try to generate useful answers to questions about MSMQ in 140 characters!

I know the Twitter.com web page isn't too bad but I've now downloaded TweetDeck so I don't need to have multiple IE windows open. The default grey/black/white colour scheme looks stylish so I don't think I'll touch that. Pride of place is the Search:...