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Damian Powell
Damian Powell

Reputation: 8775

How to retrieve names of all private MSMQ queues - efficiently?

How can I retrieve the names of all of the private MSMQ queues on the local machine, without using System.Messaging.MessageQueue.GetPrivateQueuesByMachine(".")? I'm using PowerShell so any solution using COM, WMI, or .NET is acceptable, although the latter is preferable.

Note that this question has a solution that returns all of the queue objects. I don't want the objects (it's too slow and a little flakey when there are lots of queues), I just want their names.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6421

Answers (2)

Fares
Fares

Reputation: 667

Starting with Windows Server 2012 and Win8, PS has a Get-MsmqQueue command. It is faster than the get-wmiobject method in my tests.

Measure-Command {
  $list = Get-MsmqQueue -QueueType Private | % {$_.QueueName}
}
Measure-Command {
  $list = Get-WmiObject Win32_PerfRawdata_MSMQ_MSMQQueue | ?{$_.Name -match "private"} | %{$_.Name} 
}

Upvotes: 2

Angshuman Agarwal
Angshuman Agarwal

Reputation: 4866

$obj = Get-WmiObject Win32_PerfRawdata_MSMQ_MSMQQueue ##will return an Object[] array
$obj[0].name ## will return the 1st Queue Name

Also, you can do this to find out more methods / properties on this object -

$obj | Get-Member

To List only private Qs, you may use this -

Get-WmiObject Win32_PerfRawdata_MSMQ_MSMQQueue |
    ?{$_.Name -match "private"} |
        %{$_.Name}

Upvotes: 5

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