MSMQ on a Cluster

[zinck74]

I've installed MSMQ in a clustered environment. It seems like
whichever node is the active node there are two instances of MSMQ. I
think one of them is the local queue and the second is the clustered
queue. I'm wondering, do I even need that local one? Can I just
disable that service? It's currently set to manual, but is not
started so it doesn't seem like it's even needed.

Thanks,
Bill

[John Breakwell (MSFT)]

Hi Bill,

You are correct - you will have two MSMQ services running by default, one
local and one clustered.
This blog post may help you decide if you need the local service to be
running or not:
http://blogs.msdn.com/johnbreakwell/archive/2008/02/18/clustering-msmq-applications-rule-1.aspx

Cheers
John Breakwell (MSFT)

Post by zinck74
I've installed MSMQ in a clustered environment. It seems like
whichever node is the active node there are two instances of MSMQ. I
think one of them is the local queue and the second is the clustered
queue. I'm wondering, do I even need that local one? Can I just
disable that service? It's currently set to manual, but is not
started so it doesn't seem like it's even needed.
Thanks,
Bill