Microsoft Message Queuing

Review topics that address Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) support for queues.

Review the features introduced in MSMQ 4.0 and released with Windows Vista.

Review the features of MSMQ 3.0 on Microsoft Windows XP Professional and the Windows Server 2003 family.

This white paper explains the concepts and technical procedures involved in migrating your Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 MSMQ 1.0 controller servers into a Windows Server 2003 domain environment.

Follow this step-by-step plan to configure and manage MSMQ cluster resources when upgrading to Windows Server 2003 from Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, or Windows NT Server 4.0.

This white paper explains how you can use Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) to enable a client computer without MSMQ to activate Message Queuing COM objects on a remote server using MSMQ.

This white paper describes how to implement MSMQ and MSMQ triggers in a server cluster by creating MSMQ resources and MSMQ trigger resources in the cluster.

This white paper describes how to configure your messaging infrastructure with HTTP transport using MSMQ 3.0 on Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

Learn how to configure MSMQ 3.0 for messaging using HTTPS. This white paper describes how MSMQ 3.0 on computers running Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 provides support for sending messages over HTTP/HTTPS to destination queues on an intranet within an enterprise or over the Internet.

This white paper will help developers understand what the new features in MSMQ 3.0 are and how they can be used to extend existing applications or to build new kinds of applications.

This paper outlines some best practices for MSMQ administrators to follow for planning, deploying, and implementing your MSMQ infrastructure. It also outlines some best practices for developers writing MSMQ applications.

This NSTL report provides the results of performance tests of MSMQ and IBM MQSeries in a comparative evaluation on a low-end desktop computer and a high-end desktop computer. The report also includes throughput results when configured together through a bridge.

This frequently asked questions (FAQ) white paper provides a resource of known issues and commonly asked questions for all versions of Message Queuing.

The MQBench command-line utility tool sends messages to a queue and measures the time to complete the operation. For example, you can determine how long it will take to process a certain number of recoverable messages sent locally using a specified number of threads and internal transactions.

This download manages MSMQ 3.0 triggers on computers running Windows Server 2003 from the command line.

This download manages MSMQ 3.0 triggers on computers running Windows XP from the command line.