Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) is a message queuing implementation developed by Microsoft and deployed as part of its Windows platform since 1996. MSMQ is included on most versions of Windows but it's not installed by default.
Questions tagged [msmq]
90 questions
2
votes
2 answers
How to delete MS Message Queue from Active Directory - Error A queue with the same path name already exists
I deleted a Public Queue from my local box this morning and then went to recreate the queue. When I go to recreate it I get the message: Error: A queue with the same path name already exists
From research it appears that the queue gets replicated in…

Clarence Klopfstein
- 183
- 2
- 7
2
votes
4 answers
Installing Windows Message Queue in Windows Server 2003
How can I install Windows Message Queue that can be accessed from another computer.
I've already installed MQ server, it displays correctly in Computer Management, but I was unable to connect to it from my Visual Studio Server Explorer. The error…

Salamander2007
- 135
- 1
- 3
- 12
2
votes
1 answer
Msmq - Not Sending Messages if Queue Too Big?
We recently had an issue where MSMQ (on Windows Server 2008 R2 in a workgroup) stopped sending messages. It turned out that it was because MSMQ had reached the message storage limit and was therefore responding to everything with the dreaded…

LondonPhantom
- 123
- 1
- 4
2
votes
3 answers
Escaping characters in Nagios for NC_Net
I'm trying to monitor an MSMQ queue counter using Nagios (3.0.1). The remote server is running NC_Net. The check_command config looks like this:
check_command check_nt!COUNTER!-l "\\MSMQ Queue(servername\\private$\\queuename)\\Messages in…

Robin M
- 453
- 2
- 8
- 14
2
votes
1 answer
What is the MSMQ-Container feature and why doesn't it exist on Windows 2008 R2
I'm trying to script the setup of a web-server role for our application using PowerShell & dism.
The application requires the following features for MSMQ support (excluding IIS features for brevity):
* MSMQ-Container
* MSMQ-Server
*…

Jason Duffett
- 185
- 1
- 2
- 8
2
votes
1 answer
Configuring transactional MSMQ on load-balanced servers
I've got a solution running on a single server right now that uses transactional private queues (msmq/wcf). Windows services consume and process messages on the queues, and the web application layer pushes messages to the queues.
We're moving to…

jtalarico
- 247
- 1
- 6
- 11
2
votes
2 answers
What happens to MSMQ messages sent when a user does not have permissions to a Queue
Doing some testing, it looks like if I try and send a message to a queue that the user is denied the "Send Message" permission on, the message that was sent just disappears. It doesn't show up in the dead letter queue, the outgoing queue, or any…

Dugan
- 123
- 1
- 5
1
vote
1 answer
How do I automate installation of the MSMQ components on a Windows client?
I'm looking at message queueing for client/server communication in a new product. One of the problems with MSMQ is that it's not installed by default on most Windows desktops, and that it doesn't seem to be available as a redistributable for…

Roger Lipscombe
- 2,177
- 6
- 24
- 37
1
vote
0 answers
Trying to locate TraceLogger.Tracing.dll for Server 2016
I'm migrating some legacy web services from a Server 2008 to Server 2016. The installation and set up of the web services are done using a PoweShell script and on the Server 2008 it utilises the TraceLogger.Tracing.dll to configure a ListenerNode…

Richard
- 11
- 1
1
vote
3 answers
MSMQ Queue Not Processing
I have an rather unpleasant error with MSMQ, one that following the information available on-line isn't fixing. It's resulting in emails (.EML files) going into C:\inetpub\mailroot\Queue and just sitting there not being sent.
Environment…

FridgeMagnet
- 11
- 6
1
vote
1 answer
Windows Server 2012 MSMQ - Some Clients don't connect
We have some strange things happening with a new installation of MSMQ on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Cluster:
the clients reach the server without problems
the server tries to send a message to the client and gets the error message "Failed to connect…

Marco
- 11
- 2
1
vote
2 answers
Starting MSMQ painfully slow at reboot
At the new company where I've been stationed, I've noticed that when we reboot our server, it takes a slight forever to get the MSMQ service started. It's started automatically and in Starting state for a veeery extensive period - we're touching…

Konrad Viltersten
- 113
- 6
1
vote
0 answers
Perfmon not working on remote MSMQ Queue
I am not sure if this has been asked before, but I have done a lot of searching and come up empty. Perhaps I'm asking the wrong questions or missing something quite basic here.
I have 7 Public MSMQ Queues on a Server 2008R2 box in a Domain.
I can…

jonhoare
- 201
- 1
- 9
1
vote
0 answers
How do I change the journal path for MSMQ on Windows Server 2008?
I'm running a MSMQ 5.0 instance on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 that uses positive source journaling. My goal is to set the MSMQ journal path to its own dedicated folder on a new partition.
So far I have successfully followed the guide below - which…

Aaron Newton
- 157
- 9
1
vote
0 answers
MSMQ service not starting after restart (error code -1072824319)
Sometimes message queuing service do not start on startup. And when I try to start it manually (from services.msc), the following error comes:
"Windows could not start Message Queuing on Local Computer. For more information, review the System…

Abdul Rauf
- 131
- 1
- 9