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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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Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:42 PM

MSMQ Prize Competition

I have here a brand new, untouched copy of " Pro MSMQ: Microsoft Message Queue Programming " from Apress . 400 pages of MSMQ programming goodness to help you with your queuing solutions. What I'm after in exchange is your best MSMQ solution to a problem,
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:37 PM

How to squash your VHDs

One of my machines is set up with a small virtual BizTalk environment - a domain controller, an SQL server and a BizTalk server - running under Virtual PC. Works like a dream - I love drag-and-drop to the virtual machine (Virtual Server, are you listening?)
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Friday, June 12, 2009 11:09 AM

MSMQ and the Active Directory Recycle Bin in Windows Server 2008 R2

Interesting post on the Motley Queüe blog from April about the new Active Directory Recycle Bin feature introduced in Windows 2008 R2. Discusses what you can (or cannot) do when you have lost Active Directory objects, such as MSMQ Public Queues, either
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:46 AM

Sweet stuff in Windows 7 and IE 8

Working inside Microsoft means you hear a lot of noise about new products. Sometimes it's like a background roar and you need to block it out so you can focus on your job. To reach people like me (the "yeah, whatever" group), there's compulsory on-line
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:49 PM

A novel way of forwarding MSMQ messages

On the MSMQ newsgroups , Chris asked: "I'm dropping messages into a queue on a local machine. Is there a way to easily send them to a remote server queue when they get received from the initial queue?" Frank Boyne, our favourite MVP, proposed the following
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 5:46 PM

How big is an MSMQ message in the outgoing queue?

There's always something you didn't know you didn't know. For example, learning about the extra columns in Computer Management for MSMQ. From the View menu, select "Add/Remove Columns..." and move "Message Quota Used" to the right hand side. Bingo - you
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:59 PM

Looking for HResults values, Win32 error codes and NTStatus values?

Reading my colleague's blog I noticed links to useful pages on MSDN: HRESULT Values Win32 Error Codes NTSTATUS Values As you probably know, HRESULT values from MSMQ have the format 0xC00Exxxx. In binary the first 4 bytes that is 1100 0000 0000 1110 which
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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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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:55 AM

Sysinternals Live

In the latest TechNet newsletter, there's a piece about running Sysinternals tools from the web without needing to install them: If you're a fan of the Sysinternals tools, check out the beta of Sysinternals Live , a service that makes it easy for you
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:54 PM

MSMQ and Powershell #1

Powershell is looking to be a really great scripting language and ideal for filling the void of scripts available for manipulating MSMQ. Over the next few weeks I plan to generate some simple scripts that will perform some of the basic, and not so basic,
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:50 PM

Technet content for troubleshooting MSMQ on Windows 2008 and Vista

I'm slightly embarrassed to be sharing this content with you as its dated June 2007 and I've only just noticed that its there. There are two main blocks of content. The first is the Message Queuing Troubleshooting Guide which contains two sections: Things
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:08 PM

LINQ and MSMQ

For some reason I missed the article appearing on the MSMQ product group's blog a couple of weeks ago discussing using LINQ and system.messaging together: Combining LINQ with System.Messaging Patrick Toolis of the MSMQ test team has written a great whitepaper
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:48 AM

Host Integration Server 2004 Service Pack 1 Released

Host Integration Server 2004 SP1 is now available on the Microsoft Download Center. The download package can be found at the following location . Microsoft Host Integration Server 2004 Service Pack 1 contains a number of fixes in a single update package.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 4:08 PM

Minimalist setup script for MSMQ unattended installation

Just spotted a really neat trick posted on the microsoft.public.msmq.setup newsgroup. Hans-Jürgen Philippi found a way to to create a single batch file that contains the SYSOCMGR.EXE command line as well as the information that would normally be passed
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