Microsoft KB Archive/899274

= Messages that generate a BAD_DST_Q_NACK acknowledgement are not moved to a dead-letter queue in BizTalk Server =

Article ID: 899274

Article Last Modified on 1/4/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Partner Edition

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SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 and in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, messages that generate a BAD_DST_Q_NACK acknowledgement are not moved to a dead-letter queue.

This issue can occur when the following conditions are true:
 * A Microsoft Message Queuing client sends messages to a BizTalk Message Queuing adapter (MSMQT).
 * The queue does not have an associated subscriber.

When this issue occurs, you may experience a backlog of messages.



CAUSE
This issue occurs because of a design change in Message Queuing.



RESOLUTION
For information about how to resolve this issue, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

898618 FIX: Transactional messages that are addressed to a nonexistent queue remain in the outgoing queue in Message Queuing 3.0

