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May 2007 - Posts

Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:30 PM

Take care when editing the registry for MSMQ

Had a successful day today - I resolved an issue using a Knowledgebase article. The problem was that it took 6 hours to confirm that the article really had the solution. The first step had been to edit the registry by creating a value as dictated by the
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:21 PM

Surface computing has arrived

Surface computing has arrived.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:18 PM

Look after the MsmqServices object - MSMQ will thank you.

There is a new KB article that explains an old problem: 936500 You may receive error code 0xc00e050f when you try to install Message Queuing on a Windows Server 2003 domain controller When you try to install MSMQ on a Windows 2003 DC (although I don't
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Friday, May 25, 2007 3:54 PM

How did Microsoft choose the product name for Longhorn?

If you want to see the hugely sophisticated process Microsoft went through in renaming Longhorn server then click here .
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 6:43 PM

How to repair MSMQ Performance Counters

At last, after years of waiting, there is finally a KB article on repairing the MSMQ Performance Counters: 936493 Performance objects or bridge channel data may not appear as expected in Message Queuing There are already a number of KB articles that discuss
Posted by JohnBrea | 3 Comments
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:52 AM

Take care when installing MSMQ 4.0 using "Turn Windows features on or off"

New KnowledgeBase article "No Microsoft Message Queuing 4.0 components are enabled after you use the Turn Windows features on or off wizard in Windows Vista" The user interface rules for the "Turn Windows features on or off" part of the Control Panel
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:50 AM

MSMQ messages using HTTP just won't get delivered #3

I didn't expect to make this symptom into a series... There is an interesting MSMQ 4.0 problem highlighted in the following KB article: 936502 A message is not received when you use the HTTP protocol to send the message from a Message Queuing client to
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:38 AM

Watch out when re-installing MSMQ 4.0 in a domain

There's a new KB article out for MSMQ 4.0: 935498 A Message Queuing 4.0-based server runs in Workgroup mode after you install the Message Queuing Active Directory Domain Services Integration feature This problem may take you by surprise as it's not how
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 3:39 PM

How long MSMQ queue names are displayed ... or not

A few companies pack huge amounts of useful information into their queue names so that it is very easy to work out what each queue is for. A downside of this is that some Windows applications inconsistently display the queue names. Take the following
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 2:00 PM

Performance Monitor has trouble showing over 4GB of MSMQ messages.

I have been testing my 64-bit MSMQ 3.0 server by chucking 1,000s of large messages at it to see how well it responds. I did have Performance Monitor running, showing "Total messages in all queues" and "Total bytes in all queues" for the MSMQ service.
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