Microsoft Message Queuing - Version References

Version References

• Version 1.0 (May 1997). Supports Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 SP 3, Windows 98 and Windows Me.
• Version 2.0, included with Windows 2000.
  • New features include: Support for registering public message queues in Active Directory, 128-bit encryption and digital certificate support, full COM support for message properties (achieving functional parity with the Win32 API function calls, full DNS path name support, improved performance in multi-threaded applications.
• Version 3.0, included with Windows XP (Professional, not Home Edition) and Windows Server 2003.
  • New features include: Internet Messaging (referencing queues via HTTP, SOAP-formatted messages, MSMQ support for Internet Information Services), queue aliases, multicasting of messages, and additional support for programmatic maintenance and administration of queues and MSMQ itself.
• Version 4.0, part of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
  • New features include: Subqueues, improved support for "poison messages" (messages which continually fail to be processed correctly by the receiver), and support for transactional receives of messages from a remote queue.
• Version 5.0, part of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
  • New features include: support for Secure Hash Algorithm 2.0 (SHA2) and all advanced hash algorithms that are supported in Windows 2008 R2; by default, weaker hash algorithms are disabled.