After nearly two decades providing customer support at Microsoft, I've decided to take a well-earned break. One plan for the summer is to sit in the garden sipping cool beer whilst writing a book on MSMQ. We'll see how that pans out. If you have any...

The announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series is going to cause some interesting problems for existing Windows Mobile applications that make use of MSMQ. Windows Phone is a Silverlight/XNA platform, as discussed here: Silverlight for Windows Phone...

MSMQ makes use of several protocols to do its work, including: MSMQ - confusingly the protocol name is the same as the product name (although Microsoft Message Queuing is the preferred alternative. Not as snappy, mind). This protocol is for sending...

This is something I'm glad about - the R2 numbering system just confuses people. Following is list of key capabilities that have been added to BizTalk Server 2010. Enhanced trading partner management that will enable our customers to manage complex...

This announcement has been posted to all the Microsoft-hosted MSMQ newsgroups by my colleague Ed Hickey: Hello all, Today we are announcing that we have opened a new MSDN Forum for all topics of MSMQ. The new Forum is located at http://social...

My colleague Sajay has put a Powershell script on his blog to help you create and delete MSMQ queues: Sajay's Blog

A few times now I've encountered people complaining that MSMQ isn't supported on Windows XPe. This isn't true - MSMQ has been supported on devices since Windows CE 3.0. What is actually happening is that the vendor of the device is not supporting...

Here's some data I had to pull together today about authentication (message signing) and thought may be worth sharing. When signing an outgoing message, MSMQ can use a number of algorithms depending on the version. Algorithm Available in Default for MAC...

If you are using Network Monitor or Wire Shark to view MSMQ traffic, you will see that there is a small packet sent over port 3527. This ping mechanism is used to optimise connection time to computers that are online. There is a change in MSMQ 4.0 (and...