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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:27 PM

Today's favourite command line (#4 in a series)

I'm currently struggling with some massive text files that contain error logging from MSMQ. Unfortunately a lot of the content is noise - entries that are of no use in the troubleshooting process but can't be switched off beforehand. I've just worked
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 2:49 PM

Today's favourite command line (#3 in a series)

Sometimes you are slaving away trying to work out why you're getting Access Denied and then you realise that it's probably all the fault of Mordac, the preventor of information services , deploying a new security policy he's devised. So today's command
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:02 PM

Changing the size of the MSMQLOG.BIN logging file in MSMQ

As you may know, MSMQ has internal error logging enabled by default and outputs to a file called MSMQLOG.BIN in the %windir%\debug directory. The file, as the extension hints at, is in a binary format (unlike MSMQ 2.0) and so cannot be read by simply
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:26 AM

GeekProject - MSMQ Studio

Just noticed this 3rd party project: MSMQ Studio The author, Kjell-Åke Andersson , describes it as follows: "This tool allows you to manages MSMQ queues on local and remote computers. Send and recieve messages just like you were using Outlook." I haven't
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Sunday, May 17, 2009 8:46 PM

Ramp Up your Developer Skills

Next week I'm planning to " Ramp Up " my developer skills using a free, online, community-based learning program hosted on MSDN . There are a number of tracks to follow - not surprisingly I'm going to try out the Developer Basics. As the site says, you
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Friday, May 01, 2009 6:16 PM

Useful BizTalk utilities #1 - MsgBoxViewer (MBV)

My colleague over in Paris, Jean-Pierre Auconie, has lovingly crafted a BizTalk support tool that you may find useful. From the FAQ: Q: What is the purpose of MBV ? A: The goal of MBV is to retrieve the maximum amount of information from a BizTalk System
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Friday, January 30, 2009 3:19 PM

How do you track down where an MSMQ message has come from?

May sound like a strange question but what if you have many clients spread around the world sending messages and one machine starts chucking out rubbish for some unknown reason. If there is nothing uniquely identifiable in the message title or body then
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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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Friday, December 19, 2008 5:19 PM

Forcing MSMQ to clean up its storage files

As I've probably discussed before, MSMQ does not perform garbage collection on its message storage files very often - every 6 hours or on service startup are the defaults. You can, though, run a script to ask the MSMQ service not to wait around. This
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 2:33 PM

How to get a list of installed hotfixes and updates

You can quickly collect this from the command prompt using WMIC (as long as you are using an operating system newer than Windows 2000). This command-line utility (Wmic.exe) is used to access Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and saves you having
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:20 PM

MSMQ 4.0 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2005

Sometimes products just appear out on the wild without any publicity. Prime example is this management pack for MSMQ 4.0 which came out a few months ago. Please download and deploy: Windows Server 2008 Message Queuing Management Pack for Microsoft OpsMgr
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:20 AM

Today's favourite command line (#2 in a series)

For years without end I've been typing NET STOP MSMQ {{twiddle thumbs}} NET START MSMQ without realising there has always been a way to get rid of the wasted time in the middle - you can concatenate the commands! NET STOP MSMQ && NET START MSMQ
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:58 PM

Today's favourite command line (#1 in a series)

dcpromo /forceremoval as featured in: Domain controllers do not demote gracefully when you use the Active Directory Installation Wizard to force demotion in Windows Server 2003 and in Windows 2000 Server Life must have been painful for real domain admins
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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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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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