Powershell – Is it possible to enable MSMQ from PowerShell on Windows 8

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Is it possible to enable MSMQ from PowerShell on Windows 8(.1)? If so, how does one do this?

Best Answer

Sure, when using the GUI, you would use the 'Windows Features' dialog through the control panel:

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To do the same thing in PowerShell you can use the Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature cmdlet.

You need to know the internal feature names, to get these, run:

Get-WindowsOptionalFeature –Online  | ? FeatureName -match "msmq" | select FeatureName

you get something like this:

FeatureName
-----------
MSMQ-Container
MSMQ-Server
MSMQ-Triggers
MSMQ-ADIntegration
MSMQ-HTTP
MSMQ-Multicast
MSMQ-DCOMProxy
WCF-MSMQ-Activation45

Now you can install the features you like:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName MSMQ-HTTP
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName MSMQ-Server
...

Some features have dependencies on other features, to solve them, add the -All switch, which installs any dependencies automatically.

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