MSMQ from the plumber's mate
MSMQ is part of your business' IT plumbing which makes you the plumber and I'm your mate.
An Unattended Setup of MSMQ on Windows XP fails if the source path is 100 characters long.
Here's a bug that doesn't seem to have a KnowledgeBase article for it (I'll see if I can get that...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 06/19/2008
Sysinternals Live
In the latest TechNet newsletter, there's a piece about running Sysinternals tools from the web...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 06/18/2008
MSMQ and Powershell #1
Powershell is looking to be a really great scripting language and ideal for filling the void of...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 06/12/2008
When will the MSMQ-MQSeries Bridge be supported on Windows 2008?
[[Update 24th November 2008. There will be no BizTalk Server 2006 R3. It will instead be known as...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 06/10/2008
MSMQ over HTTP is a push-only technology
If you are designing a system that uses MSMQ over HTTP then you need to take into account that you...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 06/09/2008
MSMQ 3.0 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
It's been a long time coming but the MSMQ Management Pack to help you monitor MSMQ 3.0 has finally...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 06/04/2008
MSMQ messages using HTTP just won't get delivered #14
Another KB article has been published for MSMQ over HTTP: 941754 Incoming messages may be rejected...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 06/04/2008
How to tell if you have the R2 edition of BizTalk 2006?
C-3PO: Just you reconsider playing that message for him! [R2 beeps a question] C-3PO: No, I don't...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 06/03/2008
Troubleshooting MSMQ on Windows Mobile
My Milanese colleague, Raffael, has blogged about his experiences troubleshooting MSMQ on Windows...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/29/2008
No default security when WCF uses MSMQ in workgroup mode
One thing to note when using WCF and MSMQ in workgroup mode is that there is no SID sent in a...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/28/2008
MSMQ 4.0 runs with the Network Service account instead of Local System
The changes in security between Windows XP and Windows Vista have thrown up one or two problems for...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/22/2008
Remote transactional reads only work in MSMQ 4.0
Important note about performing remote transactional reads (introduced in MSMQ 4.0) - both the...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/21/2008
Windows Vista SP1 resolves MSMQ problem of invalid dNSHostname attribute
Here's a problem that only affects Windows Vista and MSMQ 4.0, resolved in the recent service pack:...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/19/2008
Uninstalling service pack 1 for Vista breaks MSMQ
Looks like testing of SP1 may not have been as thorough as it could have been. Basically...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/16/2008
Virtualising - support in Virtual PC and Virtual Server for more operating systems
If you plan to run Vista SP1 or Windows 2008 within Virtual PC or Virtual Server then you should...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/16/2008
MSMQ 4.0 may need extra permissions to install on a domain controller
There is a new KB out for installing MSMQ on a Windows Server 2008 domain controller. 931659 The...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/15/2008
MSMQ likes drive letters
May seems to be MSMQ KB article month and there's still another half-dozen in the pipeline. This one...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/14/2008
How to tell if MSMQ is installed
Here is a collection of approaches I've pulled together from my archives for telling if MSMQ is...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/14/2008
The race between MSMQ setup and Active Directory replication - who will win?
There's a new KnowledgeBase article out that reinforces the need for you to ensure you allow for...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/12/2008
Deleting a public queue doesn't stop MSMQ sending messages
Public queues, as opposed to private queues, don't delete as quickly as you'd expect. Sometimes it...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/12/2008
How to REALLY restart MSMQ
Sometimes you restart MSMQ as part of your troubleshooting but it seems to make no difference and...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/12/2008
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...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/07/2008
How to fix missing MSMQ WMI classes
If you have the MSMQ service up and running but all of the following classes are missing:...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 05/01/2008
Clear the way - MSMQ coming through
[[Edited Ping information - 20th May 2008]] A reasonably common question is "what ports does MSMQ...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 04/29/2008
Hotfix for when the Triggers service seems to act randomly in MSMQ 3.0
This KB: 937549 FIX: Random messages may not be processed, and duplicate messages may be processed...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 04/25/2008
MSMQ messages using HTTP just won't get delivered #13
Similar to Tuesday's blog, I'm writing about MSMQ failing to send messages over HTTPS. One quick...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 04/24/2008
MSMQ messages using HTTP just won't get delivered #12
Here's a solution discovered by my colleague Andreas Naranjo which is worth adding to my...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 04/22/2008
Windows XP service pack 3 out next week
According to Chris Keroack, the release manager, service pack 3 for Windows XP will be available for...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 04/22/2008
"You will be assimilated"
As I'm self-studying Biztalk this week, I thought I'd share what's out there: BizTalk Server...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 04/22/2008
MSMQ messages using HTTP just won't get delivered #11
Security. You've got to love it. Spent a little while trying to work out why my test messages...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 04/18/2008
Dipping my toes into monitoring MSMQ with code (#1 in a series)
I don't write much code - I leave that to people who can - but I'm coming round to the idea that...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 04/17/2008
Declare war on bad documentation
Have you ever seen some documentation where you thought "that bit's not right" but never decided to...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 04/15/2008
MSMQ Setup complains 'The public cryptographic key of this computer cannot be stored'
A customer was having problems when re-installing MSMQ. A pop-up would appear complaining: Message...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 04/08/2008
"Why are my Express MSMQ messages being written to disk?"
Occasionally someone comes along and gives the foundations of your understanding a good, hard shake....
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 04/04/2008
Integration - Bridging Microsoft MSMQ and IBM WebSphere MQ on 64-bit Windows
The MSMQ-MQSeries Bridge, which ships with Host Integration Server 2006 (HIS 2006) and earlier, is a...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 03/10/2008
MSMQ and Global Catalogues
This post is part for my own benefit as I can NEVER remember where the tick box is for setting the...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 03/10/2008
You can't remotely administer MSMQ Triggers (Things you didn't know you didn't know #1)
There I was cruising along in innocent ignorance when I'm asked "why can't I see the triggers and...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 03/08/2008
Would you sit an MCP for MSMQ?
One thing that mildly irritates me is that I can't get certified (except in the medical sense). It...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 03/08/2008
"What are MSMQ's limits?" If I had a farthing for every time...
To really get into the right mind-set for discussing MSMQ's limits I think we should first read the...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/29/2008
"How can I tell if the destination is available before sending my MSMQ message?" #1
This is sort of defeating the main point of using MSMQ - that is, being able to send a message...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/28/2008
LINQ and MSMQ
For some reason I missed the article appearing on the MSMQ product group's blog a couple of weeks...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/24/2008
Writing in MSMQ's personal journal
If you are doing some testing and want to enable journal messages so you can track what's going on,...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/22/2008
Some words don't always mean what you think
Just noticed that "Queue" in French means a variety of things: A queue of people (as you'd guess)...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/20/2008
Clustering MSMQ applications - rule #1
[[Updated 6th October 2008 to add KB198893]] Just a quick post about one of the main gotchas. A...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/18/2008
"How do I send MSMQ messages between domains?"
Nine times out of ten this will not be the correct question. Whoever is asking REALLY means "How do...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/14/2008
How to improve MSMQ disk performance
There are a number of areas that affect MSMQ performance (memory, CPU, network) but for this post...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/13/2008
MSMQ 4.0 - what's new in Computer Management?
I'm now the proud owner of a working Windows Server 2008 installation (I know, I know, I should have...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/12/2008
How to deliver MSMQ messages to a new machine
[[This post applies to traditional MSMQ messaging rather than sending MSMQ messages over HTTP. With...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/11/2008
MSMQ and Session Acks - what's the story?
I've been looking through the online Resource Kit to read up on the MaxUnackedPacket registry value...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/08/2008
Windows Server 2008 Core installation (MSMQ batteries not included)
Windows Server 2008 comes with an option to install just the bare components necessary, something...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 02/08/2008