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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:17 AM

Clear the way - MSMQ coming through

[[Edited Ping information - 20th May 2008]] A reasonably common question is "what ports does MSMQ use?" Usually the infrastructure guys have their routers locked down tight and want to open up only the bare minimum to let your new MSMQ application through.
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Friday, April 25, 2008 1:54 PM

Hotfix for when the Triggers service seems to act randomly in MSMQ 3.0

This KB: 937549 FIX: Random messages may not be processed, and duplicate messages may be processed by the trigger rule when you use the Message Queuing Triggers service to process messages in Message Queuing 3.0 is pretty irritating to me - there is so
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:38 AM

MSMQ messages using HTTP just won't get delivered #13

Similar to Tuesday's blog, I'm writing about MSMQ failing to send messages over HTTPS. One quick test that people use to check that the certificate is OK is to browse the server over SSL with Internet Explorer. usually this will work and the problem will
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:59 PM

MSMQ messages using HTTP just won't get delivered #12

Here's a solution discovered by my colleague Andreas Naranjo which is worth adding to my long-running " MSMQ messages using HTTP just won't get delivered " series. When trying to send an MSMQ HTTPS message from a Windows Server 2003 machine to another,
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:16 PM

Windows XP service pack 3 out next week

According to Chris Keroack , the release manager, service pack 3 for Windows XP will be available for download ( Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Centre ) on April 29th, 2008. Versions for MSDN/TechNet, Windows XP Embedded and Windows Fundamentals
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:23 AM

"You will be assimilated"

As I'm self-studying Biztalk this week, I thought I'd share what's out there: BizTalk Server Community Portal Microsoft BizTalk Bloggers BizTalk Server Newsgroups BizTalk Server Webcasts BizTalk Developer Centre BizTalk Server on GotDotNet BizTalk Server
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Friday, April 18, 2008 5:40 PM

MSMQ messages using HTTP just won't get delivered #11

Security. You've got to love it. Spent a little while trying to work out why my test messages weren't going over HTTP to a Windows Vista destination before I realised what was wrong. The IIS service may have been running but, of course, the Windows Firewall
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 3:52 PM

Dipping my toes into monitoring MSMQ with code (#1 in a series)

I don't write much code - I leave that to people who can - but I'm coming round to the idea that maybe I should invest time in making some custom scripts to help me (and customers) troubleshoot MSMQ. So here are my first efforts with some basic VBScript
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:56 AM

Declare war on bad documentation

Have you ever seen some documentation where you thought "that bit's not right" but never decided to report the error because it was too much trouble? Next time, think of all the time you will be saving all the people who - like me - don't necessarily
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:27 PM

MSMQ Setup complains 'The public cryptographic key of this computer cannot be stored'

A customer was having problems when re-installing MSMQ. A pop-up would appear complaining: Message Queuing Client Setup Failure Unable to store the public cryptographic key of this computer. This computer cannot send or receive encrypted messages. Error
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Friday, April 04, 2008 4:46 PM

"Why are my Express MSMQ messages being written to disk?"

Occasionally someone comes along and gives the foundations of your understanding a good, hard shake. You then have to decide between "shall I just pretend I wasn't listening?" or "do I feel an evangelical zeal to let everybody know the news?" For some
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