MSMQ from the plumber's mate
MSMQ is part of your business' IT plumbing which makes you the plumber and I'm your mate.
After nearly two decades providing customer support at Microsoft, I've decided to take a well-earned...
Date: 03/30/2010
The announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series is going to cause some interesting problems for existing...
Date: 03/24/2010
MSMQ makes use of several protocols to do its work, including: MSMQ - confusingly the protocol name...
Date: 03/24/2010
This is something I'm glad about - the R2 numbering system just confuses people. Following is list...
Date: 03/23/2010
This announcement has been posted to all the Microsoft-hosted MSMQ newsgroups by my colleague Ed...
Date: 03/19/2010
My colleague Sajay has put a Powershell script on his blog to help you create and delete MSMQ...
Date: 03/19/2010
A few times now I've encountered people complaining that MSMQ isn't supported on Windows XPe. This...
Date: 03/15/2010
Here's some data I had to pull together today about authentication (message signing) and thought may...
Date: 03/11/2010
If you are using Network Monitor or Wire Shark to view MSMQ traffic, you will see that there is a...
Date: 03/05/2010
You'd think that by now I'd know where all the web content for MSMQ was on Microsoft.com but no....
Date: 02/27/2010
A common request I receive is for links to MSMQ documentation. What I find is that people haven't...
Date: 02/24/2010
Here's an oddity that one of my Japanese colleagues spotted. If you have installed MSMQ in Windows...
Date: 02/22/2010
In the past I would have been digging for hours through performance monitor logs looking for...
Date: 02/16/2010
Just watched some nice demos of Microsoft's next generation of mobile phones - the Windows Phone 7...
Date: 02/15/2010
If you are seeing this error (or something similar): "MQError.DependentClientLicenseOverflow -...
Date: 02/12/2010
Migrating MSMQ applications from 32-bit to 64-bit systems shouldn't be a big deal. In theory you...
Date: 02/05/2010
Quite often I see people discussing moving messages between queues and this mildly grates on my...
Date: 02/05/2010
With the announcement of Host Integration Server 2009 R2, there has been an update to the list of...
Date: 02/04/2010
This service pack is now available for download from the Microsoft download centre. OverviewHost...
Date: 02/03/2010
The service pack is available now from the Microsoft Download Centre. There's a list of fixes...
Date: 01/29/2010
Rob Fox has blogged today about how he resolved a problem where the MSMQ snap-in missing in MMC...
Date: 01/28/2010
Let's say MSMQ is part of your company's standard server build but you have been given the objective...
Date: 01/27/2010
And 3rd in the trio created for Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2, we have: Microsoft Message Queuing...
Date: 01/25/2010
Here's a short (3 minute) video from December covering an improvement on performance introduced in...
Date: 01/25/2010
Just noticed that MSMQ is featured on Microsoft Showcase as part of the "Windows 7 - Known...
Date: 01/25/2010
A reasonably common question, this. It is important to note that MSMQ doesn't lose your data....
Date: 01/22/2010
Before Windows 2008 (MSMQ 4.0) there was only one option if you needed to read messages...
Date: 01/20/2010
Over at PDC09, one of my colleagues, Paul Foster, had a chance to talk to Tim Higgins about his WiFi...
Date: 01/13/2010
This week the Management Pack for MSMQ 3.0 (Windows 2003/XP) was updated to version 6.0.6615.0. I...
Date: 12/16/2009
[Sharing some information that comes in handy internally] If you have installed the MSMQ AD...
Date: 12/16/2009
A new article has been released today which describes how to set up MSMQ activation for WCF Workflow...
Date: 12/11/2009
Going on the success of the Microsoft Business Integration Road Show last week, it seems worthwhile...
Date: 12/11/2009
Being a heavy user of virtual machines, this utility sounded useful so thought I would share....
Date: 12/08/2009
The trial of Windows Azure has been opened until the end of January 2010. Register for the trial and...
Date: 12/04/2009
then you definitely want to read these blog posts by Mark Russinovich: Pushing the Limits of...
Date: 12/03/2009
[[Edited December 3rd, 2009 to correct core/processor misinformation]] A common subject that I see...
Date: 12/01/2009
Somebody mentioned a useful link to me today that I thought I would share: Building a Pub/Sub...
Date: 11/25/2009
An opportunity (aimed at IT decision makers) to learn more about Biztalk Server: Microsoft Business...
Date: 11/18/2009
Sadly no MSMQ 5.0 content but may still be of interest: Download the Free MS Press eBook:...
Date: 11/17/2009
Here's a short blog post by Ivan Suhinin about deleting MSMQ queues with PowerShell: Friday, 13...
Date: 11/15/2009
I was stalking the MSMQ topic on Twitter and found someone bemoaning the absence of MSMQ in...
Date: 11/04/2009
There are times when a table explains things so much better than just text. From BizTalk Server...
Date: 11/04/2009
To test out a problem for a customer, I had to add a Windows 2000 server and MSMQ 2.0 to one of my...
Date: 11/03/2009
I recently had a request from a customer who is planning on changing his MSMQ servers from workgroup...
Date: 11/03/2009
Only a few days to go before I'll be helping out on the "Ask The Experts" booths in Berlin. If you...
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...
Date: 10/30/2009
If you are having trouble sending transactional messages from a Windows XP client, bear in mind that...
Date: 10/29/2009
If you are scratching your head because the files in the %windir%\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1 directory...
Date: 10/21/2009
As is the way, when I set up various tests with my trusty servers I bump into problems that haven't...
Date: 10/21/2009
Microsoft Message Queuing is capable of handling a large volume of messages at any one time but this...
Date: 10/20/2009