MSMQ from the plumber's mate

The Host Integration Server 2009 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 provides the capabilities for Operations Manager to discover and monitor the availability of Host Integration Server 2009 server components and applications. It includes availability...

If you are having trouble sending transactional messages from a Windows XP client, bear in mind that the format of the Mapping file you have created is going to be different from that used in later operating systems. The differences are discussed in...

If you are scratching your head because the files in the %windir%\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1 directory have no entries for the incoming MSMQ messages then you need to tick two boxes: Open up Computer Management Navigate to: Services and Applications...

As is the way, when I set up various tests with my trusty servers I bump into problems that haven't been documented before. The machines are used for many scenarios so have changed domain a few times and been upgraded every now and then. I know I should...

Microsoft Message Queuing is capable of handling a large volume of messages at any one time but this ability is not limitless. The performance of any machine, no matter the specification, will degrade eventually and to prevent this it is recommended to...

Sharing an interesting support case that I resolved today. Dependent clients are not a common MSMQ installation type for a number of reasons. Mainly people don't know they exist but also support for them has been reduced in recent versions of MSMQ...

MSMQ comes in two parts: The moving of messages from one place to another The mapping of where messages can be sent For this blog post, I'm concentrating on the second. If you have Active Directory-integrated clients then you will have...

I'm currently struggling with some massive text files that contain error logging from MSMQ. Unfortunately a lot of the content is noise - entries that are of no use in the troubleshooting process but can't be switched off beforehand. I've just worked...

Looking for help on an (unrelated) MSMQ issue, I found this footnote to one of the posts on Peter Bromberg's blog which I thought was worth sharing: And here is a performance issue I didn't know before: Use Windows Security Sparingly MSMQ...