INFO: MSMQ Must Be Clustered if Installed on an MSCS Cluster

• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
• Microsoft Cluster Server
• Microsoft Message Queue Server version 1.0

SUMMARY

Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) Site Controllers, Routing Servers, and Independent Clients can be installed and configured for failover on Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) clusters. This provides high availability of your MSMQ service. This configuration is supported only if MSMQ is clustered on both computers.

MORE INFORMATION

MSMQ must be installed after MSCS. If MSMQ is present before MSCS is installed then MSMQ must be uninstalled and then reinstalled after MSCS is installed on both nodes.

From the "Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition Administrator's Guide and Release Notes":

If Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) is installed, you can only install MSMQ servers and independent clients as fail safe services - you cannot install them without configuring them as MSCS resources.

REFERENCES

Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition, Administrator's Guide and Release Notes

Microsoft Message Queue Server Release Notes

For additional information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q237431 INFO: MSMQ Site Controller Availability and MSCS

Q188685 HOWTO: Install an MSMQ PSC on Microsoft Cluster Server

Q214710 BUG: MSMQ PEC, PSC, BSC Setup Fails with SQL Server 7.0

Q183672 HOWTO: Upgrade a Clustered MSMQ SQL to SQL Enterprise Edition

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbClustServ100 kbMSMQ kbMSMQ100 kbNTOS400 kbGrpPlatform kbDSupport
Version : winnt:1.0,4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbinfo