Understanding MSMQ

This section of the Administrator's Guide introduces the terms and explains the concepts needed to understand and administer MSMQ. It begins with a terminology overview, covers the conceptual topics of interest to administrators, and concludes with a section covering some common message-queuing business scenarios.

This section contains:

MSMQ Terminology Overview: Introduces terminology needed to understand MSMQ concepts.
Topology and Connectivity: Explains the concept of the MSMQ enterprise, site, and connected network (CN).
MSMQ Servers: Explains the PEC, PSC, BSC, MSMQ routing server, and MSMQ connector server.
MSMQ Independent Clients: Explains the MSMQ independent client and connectivity issues.
MSMQ Dependent Clients: Explains the MSMQ dependent client.
Routing: Explains the concepts of MSMQ intra-site routing, inter-site routing, session concentration, and priority.
The MSMQ Information Store: Explains the MSMQ Information Store (MQIS) and the concepts of MSIQ replication and ownership.
Queues: Explains public and private, journal, dead-letter, transaction dead-letter, administration, report, and system queues.
Message Delivery: Explains express and recoverable delivery, message storage, quotas, and transactional messaging.
Programming Options: Explains the various programming options available for developing MSMQ-based applications.
Business Scenarios: Depicts several representative business scenarios using MSMQ.