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Two New Operating Systems Bring Two New, Exciting Ways to Install (or Uninstall) MSMQ

This week we talk about automated installation (and new in Vista and Windows Server 2008, uninstallation) of MSMQ via unattend files. The Optional Component setup story has changed a bit since Windows Server 2003, but have no fear, we’ve got the info you need to be ready for installing Message Queuing on Vista and Windows Server 2008, including unattend file samples!

The biggest change in Optional Component unattended installation from Windows Server 2003 is the file format. Windows Server 2003 used .ini files, while Vista and Windows Server 2008 use XML files. The other big change is that you can now uninstall MSMQ components via unattend uninstall, which was not possible with sysocmgr.exe on pre-Vista operating systems.

Operating System

Supported OC Installer

Unattend File Format

Windows Server 2003

Sysocmgr.exe

INI

Windows Vista

OCSetup.exe

XML

Windows Server 2008

ServerManagerCmd.exe

XML

The Optional Component installers all have the concept of a “language-neutral” name, a name by which to refer to a specific component regardless the UI language on the computer being installed on.

MSMQ Component (not exact UI names, as they vary from OS to OS)

MSMQ 3.0 Language-Neutral name

Vista Language-Neutral Name

Windows Server 2008 Language-Neutral Name

Top-level “component”

MSMQ

MSMQ-Container*

MSMQ-Services

Message Queuing Server (aka Common in MSMQ 3.0)

MSMQ_Core

MSMQ-Server*

MSMQ-Server

Active Directory Integration

MSMQ_ADIntegrated

MSMQ-ADIntegration

MSMQ-Directory

HTTP Support

MSMQ_HTTPSupport

MSMQ-HTTP

MSMQ-HTTP-Support

Triggers

MSMQ_TriggersService

MSMQ-Triggers

MSMQ-Triggers

Routing Support

MSMQ_RoutingSupport

N/A

MSMQ-Routing

Downlevel Client Support

MSMQ_MQDSService

N/A

MSMQ-Win2000

Multicasting Support

N/A

MSMQ-Multicast

MSMQ-Multicasting

MSMQ DCOM Proxy

N/A

MSMQ-DCOMProxy

MSMQ-DCOM

 * MSMQ-Container on Vista doesn’t actually represent a component or service by itself, so installing it won’t do much for you. At the same time, trying to install just MSMQ-Server won’t get you where you’re going, either. If you want just the very basic MSMQ server functionality, you need to install MSMQ-Container and MSMQ-Server together.

See the following posts for details on unattended installs with Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008.

—Jolie Boushey

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    October 20, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2012
    just one note. On Server 2012 all these steps are deprecated and only command which works is DISM. dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:MSMQ-Server /all