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Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:08 PM

Checking if MSMQ queues exist is hard work so should you bother?

Frank Boyne , 5 star MVP , posted a great response to a question on the MSMQ newsgroups which I felt was worth reiterating. Basically someone wanted to check if a private queue on a remote machine existed before they sent a message to it. The problem
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:02 PM

If you are looking for a BizTalk self-study plan...

... hop over to Chris Romp's blog where he has put together one for developers which he will try and keep up to date for you.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:30 PM

Installing MSMQ can be a SELF-ish act

There's one thing with the documentation/help for installing MSMQ that confuses me - it talks about the Active Directory permissions required for the logged in account but I've noticed setup doesn't really care. For an independent client at least, all
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Monday, July 21, 2008 12:41 PM

Does MSMQ 3.0 need the RMCAST (PGM) protocol driver?

I noticed in the newsgroups that someone wanted to know how they could remove the PGM protocol from their machines to reduce their exposure to attacks over the network. In Windows 2003 and XP, this protocol is installed when Message Queuing is selected
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Friday, July 18, 2008 3:46 AM

BizTalk essentially

After a week of commuting to London and back, I've finally finished the Essential BizTalk Server course at developmentor . Definitely worth the time as my knowledge of the product has increased manyfold as a result - not quite a divide-by-zero increase
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Friday, July 11, 2008 12:51 PM

Get ready for Tech Ed 2008 in Barcelona

The Super Early Bird offer ends July 31st so don't leave it too late. Hopefully I'll be able to help out in the Ask The Experts booth like I did last year. If so, please drop by and say hello - I'll even try and answer your question too!
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:25 PM

Getting MSMQ messages out of Windows Server 2008 remotely

I'm now into full swing looking at MSMQ 4.0 on Windows Server 2008 using Virtual Server. I haven't got round to installing 2008 on my 64-bit laptop and desktop yet but maybe in the summer sometime when customers are on vacation I'll have the time. Sending
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 2:57 PM

Latest version (1.5) of the logging script for MSMQ 3.0

Microsoft PSS might ask you to change the logging level of MSMQ (in Windows XP, 2003) when helping you troubleshoot a support case. The script for this is in the appendix of the MSMQ FAQ but sometimes copy/pasting the lines to a text file generates formatting
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 1:35 PM

MSMQ now able to listen to multiple IP addresses on a cluster

In the past, a clustered MSMQ service could only listen on one IP address. This was because MSMQ depended on the network name which in turn could only depend on a single address. In Windows 2008 the address dependency has been changed and now you can
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 2:07 PM

MSMQ Diagnostics "Send test messages" and "Tracking" are greyed out

So you want to test out the routing of MSMQ messages through your enterprise? Sounds simple enough - go to the Properties of the machine to be tested and choose the Diagnostics tab. Strange, the options to send test messages and track routing are greyed
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