Managing Your MSMQ Enterprise

Because you manage most of your MSMQ enterprise with MSMQ Explorer, this section begins with an overview of MSMQ Explorer. The section then covers conceptual information relating to managing MSMQ. Procedures are included for administration tasks that require the use of Control Panel or SQL Server administration tools. All administration procedures for using MSMQ Explorer are in MSMQ Explorer Help.

This section contains:

Managing MSMQ Using MSMQ Explorer: Describes how to use MSMQ Explorer to configure enterprise, site, connected network (CN), computer, and queue properties.
Managing MSMQ Using Other Tools: Describes how to use MS Message Queue in Control Panel to configure MSMQ security, performance, and MQIS database parameters.
Creating a Custom Managing Application: See the Microsoft Message Queue Server Programmer's Guide for information on creating custom management tools using the ActiveX controls provided with MSMQ.

This section does not contain information on:

Monitoring MSMQ; see Monitoring Your MSMQ Enterprise.
Creating custom management tools with MSMQ AxtiveX controls; see Microsoft Message Queue Server Programmer's Reference.