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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:25 PM

MSMQ and Silverlight - pardon?

I was stalking the MSMQ topic on Twitter and found someone bemoaning the absence of MSMQ in Silverlight. This did cause me to reassess my (very limited) concept of what Silverlight actually was - a system for generating pretty graphical apps that competes
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:26 PM

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 domains. The installation of the Active Directory Integration portion failed as it could not contact the domain controller. The DC was definitely running
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:13 PM

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 mode to AD Integrated mode. They were looking for information and guidance on what kind of stress this would place on their AD Infrastructure. They have
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:47 PM

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 been documented before. The machines are used for many scenarios so have changed domain a few times and been upgraded every now and then. I know I should
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 6:19 PM

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 ability is not limitless. The performance of any machine, no matter the specification, will degrade eventually and to prevent this it is recommended to
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Friday, October 16, 2009 3:37 PM

Dependent clients still good past their sell-by dates

Sharing an interesting support case that I resolved today. Dependent clients are not a common MSMQ installation type for a number of reasons. Mainly people don't know they exist but also support for them has been reduced in recent versions of MSMQ). An
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Monday, October 12, 2009 3:52 PM

How often does MSMQ crawl your forest?

MSMQ comes in two parts: The moving of messages from one place to another The mapping of where messages can be sent For this blog post, I'm concentrating on the second. If you have Active Directory-integrated clients then you will have a lot of information
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Friday, October 02, 2009 12:11 PM

Use Windows security sparingly for MSMQ messages

Looking for help on an (unrelated) MSMQ issue, I found this footnote to one of the posts on Peter Bromberg's blog which I thought was worth sharing: And here is a performance issue I didn't know before: Use Windows Security Sparingly MSMQ uses the standard
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:03 PM

"Insufficient Resources" update for troubleshooting MSMQ on Windows 2000 machines

Back in September 2006 , I posted some copious instructions for troubleshooting " Insufficient Resources " problems. One thing I discovered this week is that the steps for measuring kernel memory will not work on Windows 2000. If you try to use WinDbg
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:47 PM

MSMQ pulled from Windows Server 2008 Web Edition

Thanks to StuCampbell on Twitter, I've discovered that MSMQ doesn't ship with Windows 2008 Web Edition. It was there back in Windows 2003: (Yes, it was easier to locate a VPC of a Windows 2003 Web Edition server and take a screenshot than find some URL
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:32 PM

MSMQ Prize Competition Winner

A month ago I launched the MSMQ Prize Competition and can now announce the winner: Olof Szymczak "I created a Biztalk ESB itineray logger using MSMQ so that you could log messages between transforms by sending the message to a queue and having a windows
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Monday, September 07, 2009 12:56 PM

How to help outgoing queues scale in MSMQ

This blog is written for those systems where a central MSMQ server sends messages to a large number of MSMQ clients. "Large" here could mean hundreds, maybe thousands. MSMQ is not designed to be a real-time system - although you can use it as such, that
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 12:04 PM

What happens when you enabled Postive AND Negative Source Journaling in MSMQ?

For an overview of Source Journaling for those new to developing reliable messaging applications, read this short TechNet article: Source journaling Basically, source journaling keeps a copy of sent messages in a queue on the sending machine. Positive
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 5:02 PM

10 connection limit for MSMQ clients

Now I have a new super PC to play with, I can try out testing that wasn't practical on my old test machine. For example, seeing what really happens when you have more than ten client machines trying to access a queue on a remote workstation machine. This
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:36 PM

What aspects of MSMQ performance would you like to know more about?

One thing that customers are short of is up-to-date information on MSMQ performance so they can plan for hardware requirements as their systems grow. I've tried to think what sort of data would be useful and have come up with the following short list:
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