Article ID: 254287
Article Last Modified on 2/23/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Message Queuing 2.0
This article was previously published under Q254287
SYMPTOMS
After you configure a Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) resource in a Windows 2000 Server Cluster environment, the resource may fail to start. The MSMQ service fails to come online as a cluster resource in a Windows 2000 cluster environment if MSMQ was installed in workgroup mode on the nodes of the cluster.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack
To work around this problem, uninstall MSMQ on all nodes and install MSMQ in nonworkgroup mode.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 1.
REFERENCES
Windows 2000 Help
Installation Notes for MSMQ
Additional query words: MSMQ Cluster Resource online
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