Installing MSMQ

MSMQ software consists of two parts - server and client. You must install an MSMQ server on the network before being able to install MSMQ client. MSMQ server may be installed only on a Windows NT Server computer. It also needs Microsoft SQL server. At the moment of this writing client and server parts of MSMQ software are distributed on Windows NT Option Pack (disk 13 of Microsoft Development Platform).

The MSMQ client may be installed in two modes - independent and dependent. Independent client has its own local message store and makes MSMQ applications functional even without network connectivity. However, you need network connectivity to a running MSMQ site controller (one of the modes of MSMQ server) in order to install independent client. Dependent client always requires live connection to MSMQ server because it stores its messages there.

Installing MSMQ client or server is accompanied by installation of MSMQ SDK with a collection of include and library files and code samples.

MSMQ samples may also be downloaded from the following Microsoft web site: http://www.microsoft.com/msdn/sdk/ds.htm. To a degree it is a bigger collection of samples, but it lacks a few important ones such as the "booksrvr" sample.

The setup program installs Microsoft Message Queue explorer on the system. This is a very useful administration tool. For example, it allows to view messages currently stored in the MSMQ message store.

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