What are the default MSMQ private queue permissions on Windows 2008 Server - permissions

I have installed MSMQ on a publicly hosted standalone Windows 2008 Server (workgroup), already running IIS 7.0 and a number of .NET websites.
I've created a private transactional queue named 'Requests' as per the screen shot below.
Without changing any permissions or settings, is this private queue available remotely ? How can I verify who can and can't read/send messages to this queue.
Are there any tools or scripts I can run using PowerShell that are available to attempt to connect to a remote private queue ?

Private queues are queues that are not published in Active Directory and are displayed only on the local computer that contains them.
Read this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776346(v=ws.10).aspx
This means you won't be able to use powershell to acess a remote private queue - you will have to make that queue public.
Then see this page for details on accessing the queue: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh405007(v=vs.85).aspx

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How can I use RabbitMQ user access management in iAPC?

I'm setting up a new RabbitMQ service in iAPC (Swisscom app cloud) and I need to control the user access of the different producer/consumer application.
My access control requirement:
Application A can only write to queue X.
Application B can only read from queue X.
RabbitMQ provides usually user management functionalities. However, the whole user management in the admin section, RabbitMQ management GUI, is not available.
What solution does exist in iAPC to manage read/write permissions for different applications which have an app binding?
Is it even possible to setup different users?
I believe there is no way to add additional users in these managed RabbitMQ service deployments provided by Swisscom. This is quite similar across all of the available shared services (e.g. ElasticSearch or MariaDB) which come with a preset of defined users. I assume that this is true because those are actually shared services (as opposed to dedicated ones), where there may be authentication / security concerns if you are allowed to administer existing users.
For anyone who is interested the way to access your RabbitMQ CloudFoundry service admin interface via the provided environment parameters to see what is possible:
bind your RabbitMQ service to a running app instance (e.g. MY-APP)
look at the environment of that app with cf env MY-APP
tunnel the RabbitMQ management port to your localhost:
cf ssh -N -T -L 15000:rabbitmq.service.consul:15672 MY-APP
open a webbrowser and look at http://localhost:15000
Use the Username and Password you found in step (2) under rabbitmqent > credentials > management to log in

Weblogic migratable JMS consumer doesn't follow the service to the new managed server if the old server remains running

I have a JMS service targeted at a migratable target (using an Auto-Migrate Exactly-Once policy) in a cluster which consists of 2 managed servers, at any point of time the service is hosted at one of them and the consumer (which is targeted at the cluster) is supposed to receive messages seamlessly no matter where the service is hosted.
When I manually switch the host of the migratable target (clicking migrate), without turning the hosting managed server off, the consumer fails to receive messages sent to the queues, unless I turn off the previous hosting managed server forcing the consumer to the new host.
I can rule out sender problems, I can see the messages in the queue right after them being sent.
I'll be grateful if anyone can advice on how to configure either the consumer or the migratable service to work seamlessly when migration happens.
I think that may just be a misunderstanding of how migration works. The docs state Auto-Migrate Exactly-Once:
indicates that if at least one Managed Server in the candidate list
is running, then the JMS service will be active somewhere in the
cluster if servers should fail or are shut down (either gracefully or
forcibly). For example, a migratable target hosting a path service
should use this option so if its hosting server fails or is shut down,
the path service will automatically migrate to another server and so
will always be active in the cluster. Note that this value can lead to
target grouping. For example, if you have five exactly-once migratable
targets and only one server member is started, then all five
migratable targets will be activated on that server member.
The docs also state:
Manual Service Migration—the manual migration of pinned JTA and
JMS-related services (for example, JMS server, SAF agent, path
service, and custom store) after the host server instance fails
Your server/service has neither failed or shut down, you are forcing it to migrate with a healthy host still running, so it has not met the criteria for migration.
See more here as well.
I have some experience that sounds reminiscent of what you're looking at. There was some WLS-specific capability around recognizing reconfiguration in JMS destinations as part of their clustered server design.
In one case I had to call a WLS-specific method: weblogic.jms.extensions.WLSession.setExceptionListener(). This was on their implementation of the JMS Session interface. This is analogous to the standard JMS Connection.setExceptionListener().
With this WLS-specific capability, the WLSession.setExceptionListener() callback would occur at a point where the consuming client should tear down and re-establish the connection / session / consumer in reaction to a reconfiguration (migration) that had happened.

.net application send and receive directly to Remote Queue Manager

i'm trying to connect my VB.net application to Remote Queue Manager.
but keep getting the followig Erorr: MQRC_Q_MGR_NAME_ERROR. can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong?
here is the code i'm using:
Dim mqQMgr As MQQueueManager = Nothing
Dim props As New Hashtable()
props.Add(MQC.HOST_NAME_PROPERTY, "192.168.28.191")
props.Add(MQC.CHANNEL_PROPERTY, "SYSTEM.ADMIN.SVRCONN")
props.Add(MQC.USER_ID_PROPERTY, "AQ")
props.Add(MQC.PORT_PROPERTY, 1313)
props.Add(MQC.TRANSPORT_PROPERTY, MQC.TRANSPORT_MQSERIES_BINDINGS)
mqQMgr = New MQQueueManager("QMSEPAM", props)
i also tried differentconnection method (MQC.TRANSPORT_MQSERIES_CLIENT) and i get the following error:
"MQRC_NOT_AUTHORIZED"
Thanks in advance.
You need to set MQC.TRANSPORT_PROPERTY property to MQC.TRANSPORT_MQSERIES_MANAGED or MQC.TRANSPORT_MQSERIES_CLIENT for connecting through TCP/IP socket to a queue manager that is running on a remote machine or on the same machine as your application . The MQC.TRANSPORT_MQSERIES_BINDINGS should be used only when the queue manager is running on the same machine as your application in which case your application would communicate with queue manager using shared memory.
The MQRC_NOT_AUTHORIZED (2035) is thrown if the user with which your application is attempting to connect to a remote queue manager does not have authority. There are multiple ways of providing access to queue manager, talk to your IBM MQ Administrator to provide you the required authority. Take a look at this link. BTW what version of MQ are you using?
Update: Two points
1) Is user AQ same as logged in user of the machine where the .NET application is running? MQ .NET v7.5 sends the logged in user id to queue manager for authorization unless you are using a security exit. If you are not using any security exit then the logged in user id must exist on remote machine and has authorizations to connect.
2) Do not add user to mqm as users in that group are blocked from connecting to queue manager by the Channel Authentication feature
There are couple of posts in SO that you can read:
WebSphere MQ v7.1 Security User Credentials
MQRC_NOT_AUTHORIZED error while connecting to Websphere MQ 7.1
Finally if you are just testing out your application and do not really need user id authorization, then you can disable channel authentication by running the below runmqsc command.
ALTER QMGR CHLAUTH (DISABLED)

Using a web service to drop message onto an ActiveMQ Queue fails on failover

I have a two activeMQ(5.6.0) brokers. They use a shared kaha database so only one can be 'running' at once.
I have a (asp.net) webservice that puts a message on a queue, locally if I start and stop the brokers the webservice fails over correctly
when I test with the brokers on seperate machines it sometimes works but often I get "socketException: Connection reset" errors and the message is lost.
The connection string I am using is below. Note that I am aware NMS does not understand the priority backup command but I have left it there for the future.
failover:(tcp://MACHINE1:61616,tcp://MACHINE2:62616)?transport.initialReconnectDelay=1000&transport.timeout=10000&randomize=false&priorityBackup=true
How can I make my fail over between brokers fool proof?
The shared Kaha database was on a simple share. Currently activeMQ (or windows) cannot reliably get or release the lock in this configuration. The shared database must sit on a 'real' SAN so that both instances of the queue software see the database as being on a local filestore not a network location.
See this page for more info http://activemq.apache.org/shared-file-system-master-slave.html

Can't read from remote transactional private queue using WCF in workgroup mode (can do using System.Messaging !)

I have spent days reading MSDN, forums and article about this, and cannot find a solution to my problem.
As a PoC, I need to consume a queue from more than one machine since I need fault tolerance on the consumers side. Performance is not an issue since less than 100 messages a day should by exchanged.
I have coded two trivial console application , one as client, the other one as server. Using Framework 4.0 (tested also on 3.5). Messages are using transactions.
Everything runs fines on a single machine (Windows 7), even when running multiple consumers application instance.
Now I have a 2012 and a 2008 R2 virtual test servers running in the same domain (but don't want to use AD integration anyway). I am using IP address or "." in endpoint address attribute to prevent from DNS / AD resolution side effects.
Everything works fine IF the the queue is hosted by the consumer and the producer is submitting messages on the remote private queue. This is also true if I exchange the consumer / producer role of the 2012 and 2008 server.
But I have NEVER been able to make this run, using WCF, when the consumer is reading from remote queue and the producer is submitting messages localy. Submition never fails, my problem is on the consumer side.
My wish is to make this run using netMsmqBinding, but I also tried using msmqIntegrationBinding. For each test, I adapted code and configuration, then confirmed this was running ok when the consumer was consuming from the local queue.
The last test I have done is using WCF (msmqIntegrationBinding) only on the producer (local queue) and System.Messaging.MessageQueue on the consumer (remote queue) : It works fine ! => My goal is to make the same using WCF and netMsmqBinding on both sides.
In my point of view, I have proved this problem is a WCF issue, not an MSMQ one. This has nothing to do with security, authentication, firewall, transport, protocol, MSMQ version etc.
Errors info using MS Service Trace Viewer :
Using msmqIntegrationBinding when receiving the message (openning queue was ok) : An error occurred while receiving a message from the queue: The transaction specified cannot be imported. (-1072824242, 0xc00e004e). Ensure that MSMQ is installed and running. Make sure the queue is available to receive from.
Using netMsmqBinding, on opening the queue : An error occurred when converting the '172.22.1.9\private$\Test' queue path name to the format name: The queue path name specified is invalid. (-1072824300, 0xc00e0014). All operations on the queued channel failed. Ensure that the queue address is valid. MSMQ must be installed with Active Directory integration enabled and access to it is available.
If someone can help to find why my configuration cannot be handled by WCF, a much elegant and configurable way than Messaging, I would greatly appreciate !
Thank you.
You may need to post you consumer code and config to give more of an idea but it could be the construction of the queue name - e.g.
FormatName:DIRECT=TCP:192.168.0.2\SomeQueue
There are several different ways to connect to a queue and it changes when you are remote or local as well.
I have found this article in the past to help:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/johnbreakwell/archive/2009/02/26/difference-between-path-name-and-format-name-when-accessing-msmq-queues.aspx
Also, MessageQueue Constructor on MSDN...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ch1d814t.aspx