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MSMQ messages using HTTP just won't get delivered #16
If you are sending messages over HTTP then there is a chance you may be behind a proxy server which...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 12/17/2008
MSMQ messages using HTTP just won't get delivered #15
This sounds obvious but make sure port 80 is open on the firewalls and routers between sender and...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 12/17/2008
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...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 12/17/2008
Sending MSMQ messages over HTTP to a web server not listening on Port 80
Luckily this isn't difficult. The address needs to be modified just like using Internet Explorer to...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 12/15/2008
Upgrading BizTalk 2006 to the R2 edition
In my new role as BizTalk support engineer, I'm just picking up the easier problems to avoid...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 12/10/2008
Easy bug reporting with Connect
Just logged my first bug for the Host Integration Server 2009 beta (in fact the first public bug!)...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/28/2008
Host Integration Server 2009 in public beta
[[24th March, 2009 - Updated to reflect NO 64-bit support for the MSMQ-MQseries Bridge]] Beta news...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/27/2008
MSMQ 4.0 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2005
Sometimes products just appear out on the wild without any publicity. Prime example is this...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/26/2008
What features will be in the next BizTalk MSMQ Adapter?
At the moment BizTalk Server 2006 (the current release) is not supported on Windows Server 2008...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/26/2008
How to replace an MSMQ server without bringing down the AD roof
The scenario is that you have a migration plan to move all your existing Windows 2000 servers in...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/24/2008
So, what is an Outgoing Queue and what does MSMQ do with it it?
[[I touched on Outgoing Queues last week so thought I would add some more detail. This post has been...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/21/2008
Routing Support in MSMQ requires Enterprise Administrator privileges
One down-side of enabling Routing Support for MSMQ is that you need to be an Enterprise...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/21/2008
Oil and water - MSMQ transactional messages and load balancing
A really common request is to load-balance MSMQ, either to "scale out" (adding more machines, as...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/18/2008
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...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/18/2008
Make sure to set the clocks for MSMQ
If you are using public queues and addressing them with path names then you need to ensure the...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/18/2008
Installing the MSMQ Windows feature complains "An error has occurred. Not all of the features were successfully changed."
If you try to install MSMQ through "Windows Features" in Vista or Windows Server 2008 but receive an...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/14/2008
Virtual Server responds "Service Unavailable"
For a while now, Virtual Server on my Windows Server 2003 box has been broken. I'd browse to the...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 11/13/2008
Today's favourite command line (#1 in a series)
dcpromo /forceremoval as featured in: Domain controllers do not demote gracefully when you use the...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 10/21/2008
Can MSMQ be deployed on an MNS Cluster?
What the question is really asking is whether or not you can install MSMQ on a cluster without a...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 10/21/2008
MSMQ requires free contiguous space in storage before messages can be delivered
Saw an interesting problem today which I thought was worth sharing. A customer was trying to send...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 10/17/2008
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-065 - MSMQ 2.0 vulnerability
This bulletin came out yesterday and only applies to Windows 2000. If you are still running systems...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 10/15/2008
MSMQ on mobile devices complains "Can't read file , incorrect format"
[[Thanks to Brian Dowds for the content]] On a mobile device, you may occasionally see something...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 10/14/2008
Authenticating MSMQ messages between forests
If you try to send authenticated messages between machines in different forests, you will see them...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 10/13/2008
Take care copying commands from emails
Windows isn't always WYSIWYG and sometimes it will pretend. I'm talking here about how different...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 10/03/2008
0xC00E006A - Queued Components and MSMQ
If you are trying to get a queued component working and see an event like: Event Type: ErrorEvent...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 09/29/2008
Monitoring empty queues in MSMQ
One common misconception is that because a queue exists in Computer Management you should be able to...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 09/26/2008
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...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 09/25/2008
Clearing up MSMQ certificates from Active Directory
Some people have found a problem where Active Directory contains too many MSMQ certificates for a...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 09/15/2008
LSASS process can get into a spin with too many MSMQ messages
There's a new KB article out (although the hotfix was produced last year): FIX: The Lsass.exe...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 09/12/2008
Sending encrypted MSMQ messages
MSMQ has moved out of private corporate LANs and now companies send messages over the Internet. Data...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 09/12/2008
How big is an MSMQ message really?
Just a quick note about how MSMQ reports message size. If you look in the Computer Management...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 09/10/2008
Rule #1 for setting up the MSMQ-MQSeries Bridge
Every few months (or longer) I need to set up a test MSMQ-MQSeries Bridge environment. And every...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 09/08/2008
MSMQ is asynchronous on the inside too
There is a new Knowledgebase article out - although I use the term "new" with some reservation. The...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 08/26/2008
ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards
Thanks for everyone that voted for me in the ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards this year....
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 08/20/2008
0x800288c5 trying to install MSMQ on Windows Vista
Not specifically an MSMQ problem but one encountered mainly by people installing Message Queuing...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 08/19/2008
Understanding How You Use This Blog
Greetings Blog Readers, My name is Ed Jolly, and I am a director in the Commercial Technical Support...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 08/05/2008
MSMQ and IPv6
As IPv6 becomes more prevalent in your environments, you'll need to make sure that you are running...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 08/01/2008
Checking if MSMQ queues exist is hard work so should you bother?
Frank Boyne, 5 star MVP, posted a great response to a question on the MSMQ newsgroups which I felt...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 07/31/2008
If you are looking for a BizTalk self-study plan...
... hop over to Chris Romp's blog where he has put together one for developers which he will try and...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 07/31/2008
Installing MSMQ can be a SELF-ish act
There's one thing with the documentation/help for installing MSMQ that confuses me - it talks about...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 07/30/2008
Does MSMQ 3.0 need the RMCAST (PGM) protocol driver?
I noticed in the newsgroups that someone wanted to know how they could remove the PGM protocol from...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 07/21/2008
BizTalk essentially
After a week of commuting to London and back, I've finally finished the Essential BizTalk Server...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 07/17/2008
Get ready for Tech Ed 2008 in Barcelona
The Super Early Bird offer ends July 31st so don't leave it too late. Hopefully I'll be able to help...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 07/11/2008
Getting MSMQ messages out of Windows Server 2008 remotely
I'm now into full swing looking at MSMQ 4.0 on Windows Server 2008 using Virtual Server. I haven't...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 07/10/2008
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...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 07/09/2008
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...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 07/08/2008
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 -...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 07/03/2008
Cross-forest MSMQ? You need to be trusting
Let's assume you want to use a classic "resource domain/account domain" setup where: DomainA in...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 06/27/2008
So what does 64-bit BizTalk look like?
The other day I had a customer request a 64-bit version of a BizTalk hotfix (as there only seemed to...
Author: John Breakwell ex-MSFT Date: 06/24/2008