Installing and Managing Message Queuing

You can install Message Queuing on computers that are running Windows Vista® or Windows Server® 2008. In Windows Vista, you install and uninstall Message Queuing by using Programs and Features in Control Panel. In Windows Server 2008 you install and uninstall Message Queuing by using the Add Features Wizard available in Server Manager. For more information, see Install Message Queuing.

In Windows Vista, Message Queuing is managed by using Computer Management. Message Queuing is located under Services and Applications.

In Windows Server 2008, Message Queuing is managed either by using Computer Management or, if the Message Queuing Directory Service Integration feature is installed, by using Active Directory Users and Computers. Message Queuing is located under the specified computer object in Active Directory Users and Computers. Additionally, if the Message Queuing Directory Service Integration feature is installed, then certain aspects of Message Queuing in Active Directory can be managed from Active Directory Sites and Services.

Message Queuing features that are available for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are listed in the following table.

Feature (Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008)	Description
Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) Server Core / MSMQ Services	This is the core service used for sending and receiving messages.
MSMQ Active Directory Domain Services Integration / Directory Service Integration	This feature enables publishing of queue properties to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), default authentication and encryption of messages using certificates registered in AD DS, and routing of messages across Windows sites. MSMQ Active Directory Integration requires the computer to be joined to a domain. Note Enabling or disabling of this feature requires a restart of the hosting computer.
MSMQ HTTP Support / HTTP Support	This feature enables the sending of messages over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). MSMQ HTTP support requires that Internet Information Services (IIS) be installed on the local computer.
MSMQ Triggers / Message Queuing Triggers	This feature enables the invocation of a Component Object Model (COM) component or an executable file, depending on the filters that you define for the incoming messages in a given queue.
MSMQ DCOM Proxy / Message Queuing DCOM Proxy	This feature enables Message Queuing applications to use a MSMQ COM application programming interface (API) to connect to a remote Message Queuing server.
Multicasting Support / Multicasting Support	This feature supports multicasting messages to a multicast IP address and associating a queue with a multicast IP address.

Message Queuing features that are available only on Windows Server 2008 are listed in the following table:

Different editions of Windows support different Message Queuing features. The following table lists which features are supported on each edition of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

This section provides step-by-step instructions for the following tasks:

• Install Message Queuing

• Uninstall Message Queuing

• Remotely Manage Message Queuing