MSMQ from the plumber's mate

MSMQ is part of your business' IT plumbing which makes you the plumber and I'm your mate.

Signing off

After nearly two decades providing customer support at Microsoft, I've decided to take a well-earned...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 03/30/2010

MSMQ on Windows Phone? Very unlikely.

The announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series is going to cause some interesting problems for existing...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 03/24/2010

Understanding how MSMQ security blocks RPC traffic

MSMQ makes use of several protocols to do its work, including: MSMQ - confusingly the protocol name...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 03/24/2010

TechReady: BizTalk Server 2009 R2 renamed to BizTalk Server 2010

This is something I'm glad about - the R2 numbering system just confuses people. Following is list...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 03/23/2010

Big change for MSMQ newsgroup posters

This announcement has been posted to all the Microsoft-hosted MSMQ newsgroups by my colleague Ed...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 03/19/2010

Powershell script to create and delete MSMQ queues

My colleague Sajay has put a Powershell script on his blog to help you create and delete MSMQ...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 03/19/2010

Support for MSMQ on Windows XP Embedded devices

A few times now I've encountered people complaining that MSMQ isn't supported on Windows XPe. This...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 03/15/2010

Supported hash algorithms in MSMQ

Here's some data I had to pull together today about authentication (message signing) and thought may...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 03/11/2010

MSMQ’s internal ping mechanism over port 3527

If you are using Network Monitor or Wire Shark to view MSMQ traffic, you will see that there is a...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 03/05/2010

Highlights & Top Issues for MSMQ on the Microsoft Support site

You'd think that by now I'd know where all the web content for MSMQ was on Microsoft.com but no....

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/27/2010

Good MSMQ documentation

A common request I receive is for links to MSMQ documentation. What I find is that people haven't...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/24/2010

MSMQ in Server Manager - "Now you see me, now you don't"

Here's an oddity that one of my Japanese colleagues spotted. If you have installed MSMQ in Windows...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/22/2010

Resources for Performance Monitoring

In the past I would have been digging for hours through performance monitor logs looking for...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/16/2010

Windows Phone 7 Series Announced

Just watched some nice demos of Microsoft's next generation of mobile phones - the Windows Phone 7...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/15/2010

MSMQ complains it cannot serve any more Dependent Clients

If you are seeing this error (or something similar): "MQError.DependentClientLicenseOverflow -...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/12/2010

Moving MSMQ applications from 32-bit to 64-bit archirtecture

Migrating MSMQ applications from 32-bit to 64-bit systems shouldn't be a big deal. In theory you...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/05/2010

You can't move a delivered MSMQ message

Quite often I see people discussing moving messages between queues and this mildly grates on my...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/05/2010

Future of the MSMQ-MQSeries Bridge

With the announcement of Host Integration Server 2009 R2, there has been an update to the list of...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/04/2010

Host Integration Server 2006 Service Pack 1 released

This service pack is now available for download from the Microsoft download centre. OverviewHost...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/03/2010

SP1 for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 has been released

The service pack is available now from the Microsoft Download Centre. There's a list of fixes...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 01/29/2010

MSMQ branch missing in Computer Management

Rob Fox has blogged today about how he resolved a problem where the MSMQ snap-in missing in MMC...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 01/28/2010

How to tell if MSMQ is actually in use on a server

Let's say MSMQ is part of your company's standard server build but you have been given the objective...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 01/27/2010

MSDN Video covering the removal from MSMQ 5.0 of the Windows 2000 client support service

And 3rd in the trio created for Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2, we have: Microsoft Message Queuing...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 01/25/2010

MSDN Video discussing improved queue handling in MSMQ 5.0

Here's a short (3 minute) video from December covering an improvement on performance introduced in...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 01/25/2010

MSDN Video demonstrating MSMQ 5.0 and SHA-2 incompatibility

Just noticed that MSMQ is featured on Microsoft Showcase as part of the "Windows 7 - Known...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 01/25/2010

"Where have my MSMQ messages gone?"

A reasonably common question, this. It is important to note that MSMQ doesn't lose your data....

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 01/22/2010

Transactional MSMQ on a cluster

Before Windows 2008 (MSMQ 4.0) there was only one option if you needed to read messages...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 01/20/2010

Real-world application of MSMQ - Warthogs and laser tagging

Over at PDC09, one of my colleagues, Paul Foster, had a chance to talk to Tim Higgins about his WiFi...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 01/13/2010

Update released for MSMQ 3.0 Management Pack

This week the Management Pack for MSMQ 3.0 (Windows 2003/XP) was updated to version 6.0.6615.0. I...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 12/16/2009

Deleting Stale MSMQ Active Directory Objects

[Sharing some information that comes in handy internally] If you have installed the MSMQ AD...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 12/16/2009

"MSMQ Activation for WCF Workflow Service Application" article

A new article has been released today which describes how to set up MSMQ activation for WCF Workflow...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 12/11/2009

The Microsoft Application Platform event at Reading

Going on the success of the Microsoft Business Integration Road Show last week, it seems worthwhile...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 12/11/2009

Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1

Being a heavy user of virtual machines, this utility sounded useful so thought I would share....

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 12/08/2009

Windows Azure trial and training kit now available

The trial of Windows Azure has been opened until the end of January 2010. Register for the trial and...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 12/04/2009

If you're interested in solving "Insufficient Resources" problems with MSMQ ...

then you definitely want to read these blog posts by Mark Russinovich: Pushing the Limits of...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 12/03/2009

Licensing BizTalk by the CPU

[[Edited December 3rd, 2009 to correct core/processor misinformation]] A common subject that I see...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 12/01/2009

Building a Pub/Sub Message Bus with WCF and MSMQ

Somebody mentioned a useful link to me today that I thought I would share: Building a Pub/Sub...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/25/2009

Microsoft Business Integration Road Show reaches Reading

An opportunity (aimed at IT decision makers) to learn more about Biztalk Server: Microsoft Business...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/18/2009

Free eBook download - "Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2"

Sadly no MSMQ 5.0 content but may still be of interest: Download the Free MS Press eBook:...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/17/2009

Deleting MSMQ Queues with PowerShell

Here's a short blog post by Ivan Suhinin about deleting MSMQ queues with PowerShell: Friday, 13...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/15/2009

MSMQ and Silverlight - pardon?

I was stalking the MSMQ topic on Twitter and found someone bemoaning the absence of MSMQ in...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/04/2009

Which editions have full 64-bit support in BizTalk?

There are times when a table explains things so much better than just text. From BizTalk Server...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/04/2009

Message Queuing Downlevel Client Support won't work with MSMQ error code 0xC00E1001

To test out a problem for a customer, I had to add a Windows 2000 server and MSMQ 2.0 to one of my...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/03/2009

How much load does MSMQ put on Active Directory?

I recently had a request from a customer who is planning on changing his MSMQ servers from workgroup...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/03/2009

TechEd Europe 2009 - Berlin here we come!

Only a few days to go before I'll be helping out on the "Ask The Experts" booths in Berlin. If you...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/03/2009

Host Integration Server 2009 Management Pack for SCOM 2007 is now available in the Management Pack catalogue

The Host Integration Server 2009 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 provides the...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 10/30/2009

MSMQ messages using HTTP just won't get delivered #17

If you are having trouble sending transactional messages from a Windows XP client, bear in mind that...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 10/29/2009

Troubleshooting MSMQ over HTTP - nothing in the web server log files?

If you are scratching your head because the files in the %windir%\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1 directory...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 10/21/2009

Error 0xC00E0033 when you try and install MSMQ with Active Directory Integration

As is the way, when I set up various tests with my trusty servers I bump into problems that haven't...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 10/21/2009

Setting storage quotas for multiple instances of MSMQ on a cluster

Microsoft Message Queuing is capable of handling a large volume of messages at any one time but this...

Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 10/20/2009

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