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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:10 AM

Another New Feature: Transactional Remote Receive

MSMQ has supported receiving messages from queues hosted on other machines ("remote receive") since the beginning. However, remote receives within a transaction have not been supported. That's a significant detail, and has generated a lot of customer
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Friday, December 14, 2007 9:41 PM

MSMQ 4.0 Performance Counters and the NetNameForPerfCounters Registry Key

MSMQ provides several sets of performance counters which query the state of the service and other objects (sessions, queues, etc.) and can be used in various monitoring systems. There are a few KB articles and blog entries explaining things you need to
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Saturday, December 01, 2007 3:04 AM

Be Prepared: Known Issues for Upgrading to Windows Server 2008

There are a few differences in MSMQ and IIS functionality between Windows Server 2003 (MSMQ v3.0) and Windows Server 2008 (MSMQ v4.0). This means that there are a few configuration changes you may have to make to your MSMQ system post-upgrade to make
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Saturday, November 03, 2007 1:22 AM

A Preview of Windows Server 2008 MSMQ Clustering

A very user friendly administrator UI tool for creating, configuring and managing MSMQ Clusters While this isn’t really a new MSMQ clustering feature, it’s worth being mentioned first. If you have used Win2k3 Cluster’s Cluster Admin UI, you will find
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 10:48 PM

Unattended MSMQ installation on Windows Vista

Edited on 4/11/2008 to corrected the build numbers in the examples. The correct build number is 6.0.6000.16386. Vista introduces a new tool for installing and removing Optional Components, called OCSetup.exe. For those of you familiar with Package Manager
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 10:41 PM

Unattended MSMQ installation on Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 has a nifty new command line tool called ServerManagerCmd.exe which makes installing and uninstalling Optional Components and Server Roles quick and easy. It is not related to the Package Manager/OCSetup family of tools, so although
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Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:04 AM

Encryption and MSMQ4

Just as with authentication, the security sweep for Vista and Windows Server 2008 had an effect on MSMQ's encryption feature. In previous versions, MSMQ offered two "privacy levels", BASE and ENHANCED. The two levels reflected the length of the keys used:
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Saturday, September 29, 2007 10:44 PM

Authentication and MSMQ4

As part of a general security sweep of Vista and Windows Server 2008, there was a review of the cryptographic algorithms used anywhere within the products. Some of the older ones were deprecated as being too weak to provide meaningful security anymore,
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