The following table describes the system requirements for installing Microsoft MSMQ dependent client and independent client software.
Table 2.3
| Category | Requirement |
| Operating system | Windows 95, Windows NT Workstation version 4.0 or later, or Windows NT Server version
4.0 or later. Computers running Windows 95 must have IE 3.01 or later and DCOM95
installed. Computers running Windows 95 must have the Windows 95 remote registry service
installed to function as dependent clients. Computers running Windows NT Workstation or
Windows NT Server must have Service Pack 2 or later installed. You must install Service Pack 3 or later on computers running Windows NT Workstation or Windows NT Server to use MSMQ as an RPC transport. For more information, see "RPC Transport" in Chapter 1, "Understanding MSMQ." |
| Hardware | One or more hard disks, with 1.5 MB minimum free disk space for MSMQ dependent clients or 10 MB minimum free disk space for MSMQ independent clients. Six additional megabytes are required to install the MSMQ SDK. |
| One or more network adapter cards are required. |
Note MSMQ requires Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 3.01 or later on Windows 95 clients because MSMQ uses IE 3.0 files and settings to support encryption and authentication. IE 3.0 must be installed even if you do not plan to use encryption and authentication.
DCOM95 allows you to use MSMQ as a reliable transport for RPC-based applications.
For ease of installation, consider placing the IE, DCOM95, and Remote Registry service files on a distribution share on your network for easy client access and installation.
You can conserve disk space on MSMQ independent clients by not installing the MSMQ SDK on computers that will not be used to develop MSMQ-based applications.
The following components are installed on MSMQ independent clients if the operating system is Windows NT: