Microsoft® Message Queue Server (MSMQ) is a fast store-and-forward service for Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition (Windows NT Server/E), that enables applications running at different times to communicate across heterogeneous networks and systems that may be temporarily offline. Applications send messages to MSMQ, and MSMQ uses queues of messages to ensure that the messages eventually reach their destination. MSMQ provides guaranteed message delivery, efficient routing, security, and priority-based messaging.
With MSMQ, end users communicate across networks and systems that are occasionally offline, independent of the current state of the communicating applications and systems. With MSMQ developers can focus on business programming and not on networking issues because MSMQ provides guaranteed network communication. System administrators can use MSMQ to efficiently manage large, complex networks of message queues using the MSMQ Explorer. Through MSMQ, MIS decision makers get more reliable communication in auditable, network-aware distributed applications; more efficient use of network resources; reduced software development and maintenance time; and increased productivity from end users, developers, and system administrators.
Software products with these features are often categorized as store-and-forward software, message queue software, or message-oriented middleware (MOM).
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