MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queuing)

Description

MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queuing) technology enables applications to communicate with each other in an effective and dependable manner, even in unreliable distributed environments where intermediate servers or systems may not always be available. This is made possible due to the fact that messages are not exchanged directly between applications but rather through a message queue, which is a temporary storage location from which messages can be sent and received reliably. Applications that run at different times can essentially send messages to queues and receive messages from queues at their convenience. This enables communication across networks and between computers which may not always be connected.

Automate's MSMQ action provides a reliable and secure way to automate message delivery and retrieval by way of MSMQ technology. It contains individual activities that lets you to create, send, retrieve, clear, delete or wait for MSMQ messages on a local or remote machine.

IMPORTANT: MSMQ must be installed on the (local or remote) computer in order for these activities to function properly. MSMQ is bundled with most Microsoft Windows operating systems, however, it is not installed by default. For more details regarding the installation of MSMQ, see MSMQ Installation & Overview.

Available Activities

Click the associated link for more details regarding each activity:

Activity Description
MSMQ - Clear queue Clears existing messages from the queue.
MSMQ - Create queue Creates a new queue at the specified path in order to perform other MSMQ transactions.
MSMQ - Delete queue Deletes an existing message queue.
MSMQ - List message(s) Retrieves a list of messages in a given queue and populates a dataset with results.
MSMQ - List queues Retrieves a listing of queues by type and populates a dataset with information regarding those queues.
MSMQ - Purge queue Deletes all the messages contained in the queue. Clears the contents of any queue to which you have access rights in the Message Queuing system.
MSMQ - Queue exists Determines whether a Message Queuing queue at the specified path exists.
MSMQ - Reset permissions Resets the permission list to the operating system's default values. Removes any queue permissions you have appended to the default list.
MSMQ - Retrieve message

Retrieves a message from the specified queue.
MSMQ - Send message Sends a message to the specified queue.
MSMQ - Set permissions Adds permissions to the current set. This controls who has access rights to queue properties and messages in the queue.
MSMQ - Wait for message Waits for a particular message to exist in the specified queue.