Before developing (or purchasing) queuing applications, you should review the factors that will influence how well Message Queuing will work in your environment. Table 26-5 describes the essential points.
Table 26-5. Factors in planning a Message Queuing network
Site Factor | Consideration |
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Communication channel | The channel between sites must be permanent. |
Bandwidth | The available bandwidth must be sufficient to support the message traffic. |
Performance | The number of Message Queuing servers must be balanced against performance needs. The more servers, the more traffic. Too much server redundancy and the Active Directory replication traffic will cause a big performance hit. |
Organization | Users should be grouped in the same site to keep traffic down. |
Assuming that you don't have the luxury of building a queuing operation with all new hardware, you can do several things to make sure that the machines assigned to be Message Queuing servers can handle the load:
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For the nuts and bolts of building applications with Microsoft Message Queuing, consult Programming Distributed Applications with COM and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 by Ted Pattison (Microsoft Press, 1998).