Wcf – Config for WCF MSMQ in workgroup mode

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In trying to deploy a service I have found that it won't start because MSMQ is in workgroup mode. I have created a private queue instead and changed the config files to refer to it, but the WCF service host refuses to start with this message:

Binding validation failed because the binding's MsmqAuthenticationMode property is set to WindowsDomain but MSMQ is installed with Active Directory integration disabled.

Can anyone tell me how to specify workgroup mode in the config file? The information I find in MSDN is all about modifying the setting in code, and makes no mention of how to specify this in the config file.

In the config file that I have, the bindings tag is empty (<bindings />) yet the service endpoint specifies binding="netMsmqBinding" which I imagine means a default configuration is in use.

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When we faced the issue <security mode="None"> worked in the test environment.

During final delivery , even that didn't work.. Finally this one worked

<security>
<transport
msmqAuthenticationMode="None"
msmqProtectionLevel="None"/>
</security>

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.net – How to handle message failure in MSMQ bindings for WCF

I think with MSMQ (avaiable only on Vista) you might be able to to do like this:

<bindings>
    <netMsmqBinding>
        <binding name="PosionMessageHandling"
             receiveRetryCount="3"
             retryCycleDelay="00:05:00"
             maxRetryCycles="3"
             receiveErrorHandling="Move" />
    </netMsmqBinding>
</bindings>

WCF will immediately retry for ReceiveRetryCount times after the first call failure. After the batch has failed the message is moved to the retry queue. After a delay of RetryCycleDelay minute, the message moved from the retry queue to the endpoint queue and the batch is retried. This will be repeated MaxRetryCycle time. If all that fails the message is handled according to receiveErrorHandling which can be move (to poison queue), reject, drop or fault

By the way a good text about WCF and MSMQ is the chapther 9 of Progammig WCF book from Juval Lowy

Wcf – msmq with multiple endpoints and concurrent processing

Place your configuration so it will be a little clearer. You can also control how WCF execute the calls by defining your own synchronization context. I had to it for another project and I posted the code in this article

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/threads/SynchronizationContext3.aspx

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