1.6 Applicability Statement

This protocol provides functionality related to consumption of messages from a queue hosted at a queue manager running on a remote computer.<1> It does not provide functionality related to inserting messages into a queue.

The server side of the Message Queuing (MSMQ): Queue Manager to Queue Manager Protocol is applicable for implementation by a queue manager providing message queuing communication services to clients. The client side of this protocol is applicable for implementation by client libraries providing message queuing services to applications or by a client queue manager delegating requests on behalf of client applications.