MSMQ Client/Silent Install?

[David]

Is it possible to install the MSMQ client ONLY and install it silently? I
am writing an MSMQ app that uses the ActiveX Control and need to know how to
distribute it with the client!

Thanks
Dave

[Frank Boyne]

David wrote in message ...

>Is it possible to install the MSMQ client ONLY and install it silently?

If I understand your questions, the answers are no and I'm not sure.

MSMQ is rather atypical (when compared to most other Windows based products) in
that an MSMQ Enterprise consists of exactly one MSMQ Server acting as the
Primary Enterprise Controller, plus zero or more other MSMQ Servers acting in
various capacities (Primary or Backup site controller, Routing Server, Dependant
Client Proxy) , plus zero or more MSMQ Clients.

So a typical MSMQ installation consists of multiple systems running MSMQ. The
absolute bare minimum MSMQ installation is one system, but that system must be
running MSMQ Server and must be acting as the Primary Enterprise Controller (for
a one system enterprise).

This means that you cannot install MSMQ Client without at least one other system
with MSMQ Server already installed and acting as the PEC, so you can't install
MSMQ Client only.

On the silent install question I'm not sure. There are instructions in the
Option Pack Release Notes that explain how to create an install share on an MSMQ
Server from which MSMQ Client can be installed by running setup from the share.
When I've done that, the interaction wasn't silent, but perhaps there is some
way to make it silent.

[Keith Schaab]

To answer your questions:

It is not possible to install MSMQ client only. You must install at least
a primary domain controller.

It is possible to set up MSMQ silently though. KB articles Q186190 and
Q183667 provide two different methods of doing this. These can be
downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/support.